ProfT @ProfT@social.cleverlibre.org

Estonian micromobility group in making: Ampler Bikes known for light urban e-bikes became a part of the Kõu Mobility Group. 🇪🇪📱🛴🚲⚡️

This will put Ampler alongside #micromobility IoT specialist Comodule, e-scooter maker Äike and e-scooter maker and fleet operator Tuul as a new business unit in the group.

Kristjan Maruste: “By adding another vertically integrated micromobility company from Estonia to our ranks, we will be able to multiply the impact we have on clean mobility on a global scale."

"The European Parliament on Tuesday formally approved a law to effectively ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in the European Union from 2035, aiming to speed up the switch to electric vehicles and combat climate change." https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/eu-lawmakers-approve-effective-2035-ban-new-fossil-fuel-cars-2023-02-14/

#EU #ClimateChange #cars

RT @europaverde_it: Pedaliamo insieme!
La Commissione Trasporti del PE ha appoggiato la proposta della nostra @KarimaDelli per bici sicure e accessibili in UE 🚲💚

Vogliamo:
🚲raddoppiare l'uso della bici entro il 2030,
🚲spazi sicuri,
🚲bici "Made in EU"

#12febbraio
#PedaliamoInsieme 💚

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/KarimaDelli/status/1624742143523692547

“In April 2022, #Denver began offering residents $400 off a new electric bike or $900 off an e-cargo bike, with low-income residents eligible for an additional $800 discount. The program was a sensation.” Via ⁦‪@davidzipper in #CityLab. #EBikes
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-09/denver-s-e-bike-rebate-program-has-a-hidden-power

Did you know there's a #fediverse alternative to Amazon-owned #Goodreads? #BookWyrm is a social network for tracking your reading, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. You can follow and interact with users on different #BookWyrm instances and on #Mastodon. You can import from a Goodreads CSV export. You can create private shelves and curated lists. Join us at https://ramblingreaders.org or choose one of the other instances available #books #reading #bookstodon @bookstodon

You know who DOESN’T get to decide if the concept of “15-Minute Cities,” which supports MORE CHOICE, LESS CAR DEPENDENCY, and LOWER PUBLIC COSTS & CONSEQUENCES, is good public policy?

The same extreme alt-right conspiracy theorists and cynical political opportunists who brought us truck occupations in Canadian neighbourhoods, the January 6th Insurrection, & Brexit.

I won’t let their unhinged lies work. You shouldn’t either.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7g898/walkable-15-minute-cities-con

You know who DOESN’T get to decide if the concept of “15-Minute Cities,” which supports MORE CHOICE, LESS CAR DEPENDENCY, and LOWER PUBLIC COSTS & CONSEQUENCES, is good public policy?

The same extreme alt-right conspiracy theorists and cynical political opportunists who brought us truck occupations in Canadian neighbourhoods, the January 6th Insurrection, & Brexit.

I won’t let their unhinged lies work. You shouldn’t either.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7g898/walkable-15-minute-cities-con

Via @whitneymcn, this is fantastic: https://elongineering.com/

🚨 Moment important : alors que @TotalEnergies vient d’annoncer des profits records de 19 milliards d’euros, nous sommes plus de 100 élus européens à demander à la Présidente de la Commission @vonderleyen une législation européenne pour empêcher tout nouveau projet fossiles. 🧶

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/rglucks1/status/1623252143485423619

And while I think a cosmological constant is the most likely explanation for what we're seeing, I have to admit it's more of an "if" than it was a few years ago.

The "Hubble Tension" is, imo, one of the most interesting things happening in physics right now. Different methods of measuring the Hubble factor give results that are squarely outside of each technique's expected error. Roughly speaking, cosmological and astrophysical measurements don't quite agree.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/astronomers-get-their-wish-and-the-hubble-crisis-gets-worse-20201217/

This is actually in a textbook...

Boost if you see it.

The latest denial meme is this figure of derived tropospheric temperatures from the University of Alabama Huntsville analysis that purports to show no warming over the last decade.

I know of at least five reasons why this doesn't disprove global warming ... how many can you come up with?

I've got two hints in the paragraph above. Here's another: why do we see a new round of these figures every time we have a La Nina event? And a fourth: who leads that research group?

Go!

How often does it happens while riding a bike, that the bike lane ends and gets merged into a street or into a sidewalk?

The cycling infrastructure can be quite fragmented in different cities. In the following post I show how one can download and analyze the bicycle infrastructure dat for a city, and compare it with the driving infrastructure.

Give it a read: https://luisnatera.com/posts/2023/02/02-connected-or-fragmented-analyzing-bicycle-infrastructure-in-cities-with-python/

"I don't understand job interviewers who don't like seeing tattoos on candidates. Being able to sit still for hours on end while having needles jammed into your skin seems like great preparation for meetings".

“The MIT study found that with a mass global takeup of autonomous vehicles, the powerful onboard computers needed to run them could generate as many greenhouse gas emissions as all the data centres in operation today.” Via #Dezeen

Fewer cars and less driving, not “better” cars.

https://www.dezeen.com/2023/01/31/self-driving-cars-emissions-mit-study/

#cars #DriverlessCars #AutonomousVehicles #cities #urbanism #transportation #Climate

Hier, la Commission transport du Parlement européen a adopté un projet de résolution pour doter l'Europe d'une stratégie vélo. C'est la première fois qu'un tel texte est adopté.
Je vous explique tout ici ⬇️⬇️

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/KarimaDelli/status/1620727957793939456

Looks dumb, right?

This is how we design cities.

HT @urbanthoughts11

#CarDependency #cars #cities #urbanism

EPISODE 99: "Car Brain with Dr. Ian Walker."

@ianwalker joins us for a fascinating discussion about a new study into the unconscious biases we all share in favor of cars, whether we drive or not — a phenomenon he and his co-authors call "motonormativity."

Available wherever you get your podcasts. Please follow and rate/review us!

#podcast #podcast #thewaroncars #cars #driving

https://thewaroncars.org/2023/01/31/car-brain-with-dr-ian-walker/