I just got back from Australia where I did a lecture on sufficiency in architecture; here is an Australian voice on the subject.
"Workplaces closer to homes, public transport systems that everyone can access and afford, and reducing cars on the road. Sharing building spaces. Providing enough housing, goods, clothing, and food to meet our needs, but not exceed them." #Sufficiency theconversation.com/enough-alrea...
Sufficiency is a new approach to solving humanity’s consumption problems. It’s about using less, ensuring wellbeing for all humans, and staying within planetary boundaries.
Someone in the English department at @torontomet.bsky.social should tell them that Board is singular
Many people are talking about avoided/ Scope 4/ Imaginary emissions these days. I used to be a skeptic but after flying to New Zealand and back, I realized that avoided emissions provide me with an opportunity to deal with the emissions from the trip.
Scope 4 emissions help me justify my flight to New Zealand and compensate for its carbon footprint.
I just got back from Melbourne Australia, where I toured the bike lanes, only to find that Doug Ford is bashing bike lanes again, and Brad Bradford has jumped on the bandwagon. A commenter on Bradford's post trotted out 9 complaints about bike lanes, and I take the bait here to address them.
I return from touring Melbourne bike lanes to find the same old bike bashing in Toronto.
A joy to meet Andrew Maynard in person and tour a project. The most interesting feature is the development model; the architects are in control, acting as the real estate developer. There is much that we can learn from this in North America. lloydalter.substack.com/p/austin-may...
It's not just the building design; it is the development model which puts the architects in charge.
I know I should not have done this but what a marvellous thing, to be able to fly halfway around the world in 24 hours from Melbourne to Toronto
Who needs a big pickup? "In 1932, Ford Australia produced a cross between a car and a truck because the wife of a farmer asked for "a vehicle to go to church in on a Sunday and which can carry our pigs to market on Mondays." They still make them! @burritojustice.bsky.social look at these beauties!
I was amazed last night to see the Magellanic Clouds and the Southern Cross for the first time in my life (my first time in the Southern Hemisphere). The iPhone couldn't get the clouds but the stars! It is brilliant.
An architect I met last night noted that “Christchurch could have been the first city of the 21st century. Instead, it is the last city of the 20th century.” She nailed it. lloydalter.substack.com/p/visiting-c...
“Christchurch could have been the first city of the 21st century. Instead, it is the last city of the 20th century.”
I thought few places could be shittier to pedestrians than Toronto construction sites but Dunedin NZ beats it; they not only block the sidewalk but they yell at you if you try to walk along side it and make you cross through traffic to the other side.
