Posting these here to help you stay up to date with Fraser Valley Climate Action Tweets. (some will lack context, but you can look on Twitter) – the formatting is a bit of a challenge.
Date: Sep 18, 2024
Text: More EV sales records
EV sales are not cooling, falling, slowing, nor in a slump. They’re still on the rise—as they have been most of the time while misleading headlines grew to become the norm.
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Date: Sep 18, 2024
Text: Langley City’s roughly 49,000 trees are hard at work for the city, providing the city with more than $481,900 in services each year, municipal staff have found in a new analysis.
Links: https://t.co/1Vgf4ayiKn
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Date: Sep 18, 2024
Text: When it comes to Trucks and Buses… Canada is falling behind.
Links: https://t.co/mWYVtlLh4G
https://t.co/yiqRhuSPfE
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Date: Sep 17, 2024
Text: Where there is a will. There is a way.
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Links: https://t.co/6bt0G0AmKv
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Date: Sep 17, 2024
Text: I just signed this petition, please join me:
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Links: https://t.co/E7yfNLsdHH
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Date: Sep 17, 2024
Text: Maybe share this educational resource with your provincial representative.
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Links: https://t.co/EBkIG0e8vj
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Date: Sep 16, 2024
Text: 99% invisible is a thoughtful podcast about design.
This is the first in a 6 part mini series about how climate change requires us to rethink design of places and systems.
Enjoy!
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Links: https://t.co/KB8ZHtmBBW
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Date: Sep 11, 2024
Text: You can’t have “Satisfaction” without “Action”.
Take action to fight #ClimateChange
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Links: https://t.co/OmLWKgBWby
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Date: Sep 11, 2024
Text: We❤️the use of understatement. Well done @cleanenergycan
Our report dives into Canada’s progress finds that “we stand firmly at the back of the pack.”
Just 2% of new trucks and buses sold in Canada in 2023 were zero-emissions, compared to 9% globally & 17% in California 🤣
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Date: Sep 8, 2024
Text: DYK: One-third of B.C. households have at least one school-aged child walking or cycling to school.
Are there safe bike lanes to the school nearest you?
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Date: Sep 8, 2024
Text: Bike Lanes are good for business.
better for banks, restaurants, bookstores etc.
worse for gas stations & furniture stores.
10 bikes can park in the spot of a single car.
Its healthier, its less polluting.
Links: https://t.co/IANHtxb0KB
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Date: Sep 8, 2024
Text: Study shows:
If you build Bike 🚴 infrastructure… People will use it.👩👩👧👦
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Links: https://t.co/A3JoA2U1Az
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Date: Sep 7, 2024
Text: Here is a sneak peak at our Newsletter sent out to our 69 members.
It contains quick easy actions you can take in support of campaigns by
Join us if you want:
- To be invited to take actions to fight climate change (focused on…
- Links: https://t.co/OVzqolcCqc
https://t.co/1R1bk4aCOg
https://t.co/ZVLZIGw89M
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Date: Sep 7, 2024
Text: In Abbotsford, read about the threatened biodiverse forest and what Fraser Valley Nature Conservancy has to say about it.
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Links: https://t.co/iyurwQLSbV
https://t.co/pkJMMlIjLL
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Date: Sep 7, 2024
Text: It was a productive day volunteering and fighting climate change
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Date: Sep 7, 2024
Text: @X We are observing high levels of bots.
What is X doing to fight “paid influence” campaigns. Maybe start by rejecting account names with numbers 🙂
Surely if I can spot them, X algorithms can spot them.
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Date: Sep 7, 2024
Text: @CWBcommunity
Just so you know. You are rated poorly, as a bank that is most likely funding the climate change that is hurting all of us.
Thats why our family has moved much of our money OUT of your bank to @Vancity
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Links: https://t.co/SiKB0VGfKf
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Date: Sep 7, 2024
Text: Did you know that in addition to being safer and non-polluting. Electric induction cooktops are faster than cooking with gas.
Links: https://t.co/Cusa9n8zjK
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Date: Sep 6, 2024
Text: Do you love well informed sarcasm? A bit rough around the edges but the content is useful
You might enjoy this oldie but goodie from Climate Town
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Links: https://t.co/smouBxwGW8
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Date: Sep 6, 2024
Text: B.C.’s Electric Highway network includes 155 charging sites
https://t.co/TK5xV34lwe
Date: Sep 6, 2024
Text: The cost of solar power is now less than one-thousandth of what it was when people first started installing panels in the 1960s. Ten years ago, reducing the price of a solar module to one dollar per watt was considered a lofty goal; now they are made for one-tenth of that.
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Date: Sep 6, 2024
Text: By the 2030s — not very long from now — solar power will most likely be the largest source of electricity on the planet.
Links: https://t.co/E0KSUWYV7b
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Date: Sep 5, 2024
Text: DYK: solar power accounts for 15% of the total worldwide installed electricity generating capacity as of 2023.
In 2023, 444GW of solar capacity was added.
Read more about how solar is dropping in price and increasing in availability.
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Links: https://t.co/32BUZNBvYa
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Date: Sep 5, 2024
Text: Check out this graph showing the number of AC units the world is expected to need because of #climateChange
This is a cost of climate adaptation.
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Links: https://t.co/fnoiZCAFfh
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Date: Sep 5, 2024
Text: DYK:
In Canada and USA, people were surveyed and 48% of people said they would give 1% of their income to fight climate change.
People are willing to make sacrifices to fight climate change. This engagement should be driving government to act on climate because there is broad…
Links: https://t.co/2tN4zeucvW
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Date: Sep 4, 2024
Text: Read the 2023 report evaluating the BC governments progress on implementing 10 urgent climate actions. (bookmark this to understand what is at stake with this Fall’s election & to hold government accountable).
Links: https://t.co/hQQgbPHnQl
https://t.co/JjwTAEU3gS
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Date: Sep 4, 2024
Text: Canada needs (and lacks) FAST, FREQUENT rail that goes where people want to travel.
For too long cargo has been given priority and passenger service has shrunk.
While we’re at it ELECTRIFY so it is low carbon (with faster acceleration)
Links: https://t.co/culsGx7D87
https://t.co/N2yjpAxGTW
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Date: Sep 4, 2024
Text: Where does your city / provincial government line up with these 10 actions to fight #climateChange?
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Links: https://t.co/KfsFYPhSpc
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Date: Sep 3, 2024
Text: According to a recent study from the International Institute for Sustainable Development, fossil fuel price volatility is a key driver of inflation, making life less affordable for Canadians.
Links: https://t.co/IDkdXgyBAs
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Date: Sep 3, 2024
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Links: https://t.co/WsIS2HLRTk
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Date: Sep 3, 2024
Text: Climate inaction is exponentially more expensive than climate action. The costs to BC’s economy from the 2021 heat dome & subsequent horrific wildfires, widespread flooding & crippling landslides are estimated at $10.6 to $17.1 billion, the most expensive climate disaster year in…
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Date: Sep 3, 2024
Text: DYK Europeans can choose from no less than 11 different electric options with a purchase price of less than C$45,000, compared to just two in Canada. Automakers can do better.
(And 🇨🇦 100% tariffs on Chinese produced EVs and batteries will keep prices high)
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Date: Sep 2, 2024
Text: The IPCC https://t.co/mzXjnrP9ob is a United Nations international body of eminent climate scientists who clearly state that we must rapidly reduce production and consumption of all fossil fuels, meaning no new fossil fuel infrastructure can be built. They make no exception for…
Links: https://t.co/Kwfo4oP60G
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Date: Sep 2, 2024
Text: 4 years of climate advocacy on Twitter-X
3 years with the Fraser Valley Climate Action account.
Thanks for the engagement, the likes, the honest questions, the challenge.
I appreciate it.
We ARE moving the needle on #ClimateChange awareness
Links: https://t.co/d8lDbOJvvm
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Date: Sep 2, 2024
Text: Hey @CBCSask & @CBCNS
Did you know.
The UK will be coal free (for electricity) by the end of this Sept, 2024. The place where the Industrial Revolution started is moving beyond the coal era.
SK & NS can and must move beyond polluting fossil fuels. 🧪🔌💡💨☀️🔋
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Date: Sep 2, 2024
Text: DYK:
The Ads Standards Council recently ruled that claims that BC LNG will reduce greenhouse gases globally is false advertising.
Links: https://t.co/bz5MPKkHOW
https://t.co/PJkmq9XhW4
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Date: Sep 2, 2024
Text: So sad, So unnecessary. We need safe biking infrastructure everywhere. #VisionZero
Talk to your local politicians asking that you and your neighbours can be safe on a bike.
Follow
Charlotte Light was killed on her bicycle Friday just outside of Cornwall. She was riding on the shoulder and struck by a motorist. She was 14 years old: https://cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/teen-cyclist-dies-after-being-hit-by-car-near-long-sault-ont-1.7310582… #charlottelight #cornwall #youneverridealone #ghostbike
Teen cyclist dies after being hit by car near Long Sault, Ont. | CBC News
From cbc.ca
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Date: Sep 2, 2024
Text: Projects including Summit Lake LNG and Ksi Lisims LNG are not yet approved, so there is no legal consequence to saying no. Projects in the past have been cancelled; it’s just a matter of political will.
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Date: Sep 2, 2024
Text: Support from one First Nation for an oil and gas project does not eliminate the need for consent from all affected nations. The Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs’ report highlights concerns with the Ksi Lisims LNG project led by the Nisga’a Nation.
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Links: https://t.co/961ng5exwv
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Date: Sep 1, 2024
Text: @AbbotsfordSD @Mission_BC @City_Abbotsford @City_Chilliwack @ChilliwackSD33
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The more kids are invited to bike, walk & take public transit to school, the safer, healthier & smarter it is for EVERYONE. It’s shocking how much vehicle congestion in cities is “driven” by trips to and from schools. #BackToSchool #LetKidsBike #LetKidsWalk HT
Date: Sep 1, 2024
Text: This strikes me as incomplete.
Only 6-10% of ON electricity comes from oil and natural gas.
Is CAPP reminding the public that most human caused Ontario greenhouse, gas emissions come from oil and gas?
Climate change…