“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”
In recent years, Bilbao has quietly built a cycling network shaped by lessons from the Netherlands: calmed where it can be, protected where it must be, and always comfortable and connected.
The result? You can now pedal across the city on infrastructure made for everyone—not just the fit and brave.
Nuevas plazas para afrontar la crisis climática.
La naturaleza está debajo.
Al menos un misil de la última andanada lanzada desde Irán hacia Israel impacta en Tel Aviv, donde ya se reporta la primera víctima mortal.
We all need to boycott unethical companies, and encourage and support the ethical ones! Thank you for your advocacy!
After reading @ethical-consumer.bsky.social magazine, I have closed my Spotify account and moved to Qobuz. Here's to a better deal for artists and human-curated content! #music #musicians #royalties
Thank you to everyone for your support this year - our first year on BlueSky!
We'll be back and posting in the new year, but for now, the EC team will be taking a break until January.
Issue 219 is out online now!
This magazine features our guides to electric cars, bicycles, travel booking companies and fast food.
We also have a feature on dates from Palestine, in time for Ramadan and new sections on Challenging Corporate Power. bit.ly/4hNJhvW
Who the F needs a $50k new car?
thinking about munich's mixed use neufreimann quarter...
parks & open space. thin buildings (<50' avg). car-free places & quiet streets. social housing. schools.
the quality of life is going to be so much higher than this autocentric TOD - and it's served by bus & tram.
neufreimann.de
By and large, however, the allegations against the other social media platforms are less detailed than those against Meta. The internal documents cited by the plaintiffs allege: Meta intentionally designed its youth safety features to be ineffective and rarely used, and blocked testing of safety features that it feared might be harmful to growth. Meta required users to be caught 17 times attempting to traffic people for sex before it would remove them from its platform, which a document described as “a very, very, very high strike threshold." Meta recognized that optimizing its products to increase teen engagement resulted in serving them more harmful content, but did so anyway. Meta stalled internal efforts to prevent child predators from contacting minors for years due to growth concerns, and pressured safety staff to circulate arguments justifying its decision not to act.
17 strikes and you’re out. 💀
I don’t mean to overreact or anything, but this is the commander-in-chief telling military personnel that Democrats are a problem to be dealt with.
Trump regime has disgracefully issued sanctions against Francesca Albanese because of her work on #humanRights abuses in the OPT. She recently called out US companies for their role in the #genocide in #Gaza. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
TikTok is fueling political echo chambers. A new study shows it’s making users more polarized.
(We love TikTok, too, but take this as a warning to not make it your only or primary news source. TikTok is designed to feed you what you like — and politically, that’s a problem.)
SIBERIA RECORD HEAT
We are past 110 consecutive days breaking records allover Siberia.
Tonight it was the warmest June night in history for more stations in Far East Russia.
HIGH MINIMUMS
22.8 Astrahanka
22.0 Vladivostok
19.2 Jikimda
18.7 Ternej
18.3 Ust'- Njukzha
17.3 Tyanya
16.8 Tongulah
🚨The North Carolina Legislature voted unanimously (107 to 0) to ban minimum parking requirements in new developments statewide.
El secretario general de la ONU dice que, al cumplirse el 80 aniversario de la firma de la carta de Naciones Unidas, este documento fundacional sufre "ataques contra sus objetivos y principios como nunca antes".
drawing of a cup of coffee When kids can walk/roll safely and independently to school, you can enjoy some peaceful time to yourself. prioritizing youth mobility is prioritizing adult relaxing
Prioritizing Youth Mobility Is Prioritizing Adult Relaxing.
Rue Pierre Castagnou via Google August 2017. It is full of cars.
Same location. Photo by me yesterday.
BEFORE and AFTER: Paris removed cars and added…
✅ greenery
✅ a public restroom, and
✅ two lovers strolling hand-in-hand
Like so many elections around the country, today is about organized money vs. organized people.
I believe people will win.
Rule 25: Don’t Mistake Uber for Transit
In NYC, alcohol-related crashes dropped 25–35% after Uber arrived. But in cities nationwide, ride-hailing has added over 600 million extra miles driven per year.
Walkable City Rules amazon.com/dp/16109189834
A bar chart comparing two financial figures from 2023. On the left, a blue bar labeled "Global transaction costs for money sent home by international migrants" measures $51 billion. On the right, a taller teal bar labeled "Foreign aid from the United States" measures $66 billion. The chart title indicates that global migrant transfer fees nearly matched total U.S. foreign aid in 2023. The data source information notes the OECD from 2024 and the World Bank from 2025, and it explains that "foreign aid" refers to net official development assistance. The graphic has a "CC BY" copyright indication.
Transfer fees for money sent home by international migrants were nearly as high as US foreign aid in 2023
I’m checking out shared streets in Paris.
Donald Trump asegura que Irán notificó de antemano a EE.UU. del bombardeo que Teherán llevó a cabo hoy contra su base aérea en Catar y califica de "muy débil" el ataque. https://efe.com/mundo/2025-06-23/eeuu-ataques-iran-base-oriene-medio-conflicto/
A HISTORIC MILESTONE: For the first time, solar power generated more electricity globally than nuclear, making it the world’s 4th largest power source.
In just 5 years, solar output nearly tripled—from 79 TWh (Apr 2020) to 233 TWh (Apr 2025). The energy transition is speeding up.
@ember-energy.org
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Esto que dice doña Mafalda es muy frecuente ⬇️
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