Calgary Climate Hub

Overwhelmed by huge world events over which you have literally no control? We get it. That's why on this month's show we bring you our good pal #GeraldWheatley who has been one of Calgary's biggest champions on building LOCAL resilience, community & justice www.podcastics.com/episode/4338... #yyc

@acornunion.bsky.social

Civilization won’t withstand 3 degrees. All hands on deck to keep things under 2.0.

A few very important things to point out here The first is that this analysis tells me a huge, uncontrolled data centre build-out in the US still has huge climate impacts even if plugged into the grid Undeniably better w/ grid but it masks and disconnects the climate impacts from the data centre

This is a gigantic win for the Amazon, the Cerrado and the climate.

TAN SUIT ALERT 😂

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Local woman wakes up, once again suggests we turn the anger and exhaustion of Alberta into a renewable energy resource, makes oatmeal.

#Alberta has peat moss bogs and other natural #GREEN OPTIONS for carbon capture like this. The #UCP has been denying funds to these types of projects. #NeverConservatives #UCP #DanielleSmith #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #greenoptions

...to learn about City services and how future budget decisions help shape Calgary's communities. Can’t join us? Read more and fill out my survey. To register for the event and the link to the survey, visit www.calgary.ca/council/ward-8/articles/2027-2030-budget

The next four-year Budget hearing begins November 10 This is the biggest decision we make as a Council as we decide what gets funded over the next four years, and I want to hear from you! Join the Ward 8 Team and City Business Units this Wednesday, October 28 at the Richmond Knobhill CA Hall...

Also with us for the kickoff were two members of the Hub's #Headwaters Protection and Restoration team. #WaterIsLife and Albertans face a water crisis. We need to reinstate the #CoalMining Moratorium, stop polluting & more! Learn more HERE: www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/chpr #yyc #ProtectOurWater

Canada. #cdnpoli #ClimateChange

"Trump threatening us, an #ElbowsUp movement I support entirely but I sure as hell don't support more pipelines & now a wholly unnecessary #Separatism #Referendum. How do we deal with all of these great big overbearing pressures yet continue to fight for the things that need to happen?" #cdnpoli

During which time, PM #MarkCarney, no shit, flies to Alberta where he "COMPLAINS ABOUT" (and I quote) "BIBLICAL WEATHER" back in Ottawa then ANNOUNCES ANOTHER BIG, DUMB, BAD DEAL, WORLD BURNING PIPELINE. Knows better. Absolutely does not give a shit. Bankers gotta bank. #cdnpoli #ClimateChange

In closing, I 100% endorse this message and I too "will now run through a wall for nurses, anytime, anywhere." #HealthCare #cdnpoli #abpoli bsky.app/profile/shan...

In Alberta a big part of the strategy is data centres as "digital refining" to produce value from additional natural gas use (and leverage the cold weather). This is not some kind conspiracy theory but clearly stated on the website describing the data centre strategy www.alberta.ca/datacentres/...

Because of course it is. Not housing. Not the drug crisis. Of course not the climate crisis. Just Fossil Fuel profits

We do NOT WANT ANY MORE #DATACENTERS in #Alberta! There are over 20 working in our province tight now! Stop the #MEGA #DATACENTER outside #Edmonton, #Alberta It will use as much #water and #power as our ENTIRE CITY!

if (big if obviously but for many this is the approach) you ignore the pollution/GHG/etc impacts of combusting natural gas it's a completely coherent strategy. Which is why I increasingly think the idea that data centres will net improve climate outcomes by driving renewable growth isn't correct.

Very typical that the govt pitch makes no mention of pollution or greenhouse gases. Just natural gas being turned into pure intelligence.* *Some conditions apply

It's time to take our power back! Doug Ford is allowing US tech billionaires to take our water, raise our bills and pollute our air. Join us in calling for a provincial moratorium on AI Data Centres in Ontario now.

"I've been in many #HubAndSpokes rides & met people who'd never been on a bike downtown but once they actually get on those #BikePaths, just like a young woman said to me, 'I can do this, no problem. Before, it was a nonstarter to even conceive of riding a bike downtown!' That's how change happens"

Today's essential read for all of humanity. “Keep one eye on the world as it is, and the other on the world as it ought to be, confusing neither and abandoning neither,”

bsky.app/profile/bigc... #yyc #yyccc #Referendum #ClimateChange #Separatism #cdnpoli #abpoli

(though they'd be the first to tell you not to run through walls) #cdnpoli #Healthcare #ILoveNurses #cdnpoli #abpoli bsky.app/profile/bigc...

Schools, arenas and daycare centres are where community happens. But for many Indigenous communities these buildings are also aging and in need of repair. @yourcier.bsky.social is working with communities to address this problem, and their lessons are well-worth sharing. 🔗 buff.ly/PRIn7Sn

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew calls on prime minister to abolish the Indian Act at meeting with chiefs

Some random photos 🙌 1/2 #Calgary #YYC #Alberta #Canada

Canada. #cdnpoli #ClimateChange

And finally, in 2021 just slightly MORE CALGARIANS VOTED in favour of not ash-traying our planet than those that voted to STAY IN CANADA in the 2026 #Referendum. That's a POWERFUL MAJORITY of Calgarians in favour of #ClimateAction right here in Calgary. So who's speaking to them right now?

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

#yyc #Resilience #Adaptation #Mitigation #BuyLocal #Community #ClimateChange #ArushaCentre #BigOil

"Trump threatening us, an #ElbowsUp movement I support entirely but I sure as hell don't support more pipelines & now a wholly unnecessary #Separatism #Referendum. How do we deal with all of these great big overbearing pressures yet continue to fight for the things that need to happen?" #cdnpoli

we are in trouble. there's no denying it. and we're in a crazy alternative world where we're pretending everything is A-OK. It's not. Let's do more. Let's pressure our poliiticians to fight harder, for us.