#ClimateInfluence
Our Donuts & Democracy voter registration action today was WILDLY successful.
September 23, 2026 at 10:01 PM
U.S. mayors and /#cities , here’s your model. #ClimateInfluence #transportation
Paris, my city, world capital of a soft & low-carbon mobility. Our sincere gratitude to our mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social who has profoundly changed this amazing city.
Yes, we can, bravo Anne!
July 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Yes! Also - the joy of biking for local transportation is hard to put a value on. Been doing it for 25+ years. #ClimateInfluence
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”

“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.”
grist.org/biking/one-m...
One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.
grist.org
July 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
September 23, 2026 at 10:00 PM
This @volts.wtf episode is so joyful!!

Love the love for NYC congestion pricing.

#transportation
#ClimateInfluence
#cities
Today on Volts: NYC's congestion pricing program has been running for a year & the data is in. Results are almost entirely positive, with traffic speeds & pedestrian traffic both increased inside the zone & no surge of traffic outside it. I talk with an expert about the good news & what's next.
NYC's congestion pricing has been running for a year now. How's it doing?
Kate Slevin joins me to break down the almost unqualified success of the controversial program's first year.
www.volts.wtf
January 8, 2026 at 3:10 AM
We truly do not want this to stay a secret! Ask any urban biking person you know. It’s SO efficient and fun!#bikes4all

Thanks for your posts, always, @brenttoderian.bsky.social

#ClimateInfluence
New data analysis “has provided fresh evidence that cycling is the fastest inner city rush hour transport, with new findings from London showing that 2 wheels beats the tube & cars for most trips…the bike beat 92% of matched trips aligned to TfL services, as well as 75% of rush hour driving trips.”
Cycling again declared London’s fastest transport in new data
New data analysis from health data experts Terra and triathlon icon Alistair Brownlee has provided fresh evidence that cycling is
www.cyclingelectric.com
August 7, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Such #ClimateInfluence !

Consider veering #plantbased !
[even the least sustainable vegan diet was more environmentally-friendly than the most #sustainable meat eater's diet. In other words, accounting for origin & methods of food production does not obscure the differences in the environmental impacts between groups]
www.sciencealert.com/oxford-scien...
Oxford Scientists Confirm Vegan Diet Is Massively Better For Planet
We know that meat has a substantial impact on the planet, and that plant-based diets are more environmentally sustainable.
www.sciencealert.com
February 16, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Paris is doing so much right. #cities4climate #ClimateInfluence
Paris to Replace Parking Spaces With Trees
By 2030, Paris will have removed 60,000 parking spaces and replaced them with trees. That’s one of the goals outlined in the French capital’s new 2024-2030 Climate Plan, which was released last week.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Paris to Replace Parking Spaces With Trees
The city’s new climate plan promises to drop speed limits, repurpose traffic lanes, remove 60,000 parking spots and create urban “oases” to combat extreme heat.
www.bloomberg.com
December 11, 2024 at 11:51 PM
Normalize riding bikes for short trips!

#ClimateInfluence
#NameAndFame
In 2013, when faced with Miami-area gridlock, tennis champion Serena Williams made headlines by riding a bicycle to her match. "It was probably one of my best memories I think ever, riding a bike to a match" she said.

#BicycleBirthday Serena Williams
September 26, 1981
September 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Reminder that @governor.ca.gov is reportedly considering vetoing SB79, the best housing bill to clear the CA legislature in decades.

It would be a *disaster*, substantively & for Newsom's political future. Really hope he doesn't self-immolate.

Tell him!
Contact the Governor | Governor of California
You can contact the Governor a few different ways. The best way is through his online form.
www.gov.ca.gov
October 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
August 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Like not just bikes points out: you could buy a brand new e-cargo bike at the beginning of the year and throw it away at the end of the year and get a brand new one and still come out ahead of the average car owner.
March 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath

50 reasons to want more walkable streets.
50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets
From making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here.
www.fastcompany.com
March 9, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Imagine coming home from school or work, and loudest sound was the sound of birds, getting ready to roost for the night.

Stel je voor dat je thuiskomt van school of werk, en het luidste geluid was het geluid van vogels die zich klaarmaakten om te slapen voor de nacht.

#Utrecht #ThrushHour
January 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
35% of Boston's nearly 300,000 households do not own a car.

In Allston, Beacon Hill, Chinatown, Downtown, Fenway, Longwood, Mission Hill, North End, and the West End, more than half of all households are car free.
February 16, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Imagine getting anywhere close to this in the U.S.

#ClimateInfluence
#lesscar
#bikes4all
#cities
“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes.

This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint
If everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint.
www.euronews.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Looks right up my #ClimateInfluence alley, @charliejgardner.bsky.social I find my smallest conversations with grocery store and coffee shop cashiers or neighbors REALLY have a positive charge.
September 23, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Thank you @mayorofseattle.bsky.social !! This is joy and #ClimateInfluence
Seattle's only annual open streets festival along the South Seattle waterfront will run every single weekend this summer outside of Seafair. Wilson's changes are a bold reversal of her predecessor's scaling back of Bicycle Weekends.

Story: www.theurbanist.org/katie-wilson...
Katie Wilson Scales Bicycle Weekends on Lake Washington Boulevard Back Up
Seattle's only annual open streets festival along the South Seattle waterfront will run every single weekend this summer outside of Seafair. Wilson's changes are a bold reversal of her predecessor's s...
www.theurbanist.org
April 14, 2026 at 4:08 PM
“Local stores next to the protected bike-lane have seen a 49% increase in sales, compared to an average of 3% for Manhattan as a whole.”

(Among MANY other public benefits.)

Want To Make Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane. #CityMakingMath via @fastcompany.com
#BikeLanesMeanBusiness
Want To Make Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane
Research from New York City notes that newly installed protected bike lanes do more than keep bikers safe--they raise the income of the stores they are in front of.
www.fastcompany.com
May 14, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Very cool people ride #bikes for transportation… :-) Plus: #ClimateInfluence

#bikesky
#climatesky
Born on this day, June 5, 1947:
Laurie Anderson, avant-garde musician and artist.
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Laurie!
June 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
#ClimateInfluence
in New York state
March 12, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Normalize seeing all sorts of people, including celebrities and otherwise famous names, on bikes for transportation.

So appreciate what @coolbikeart1.bsky.social does!

#ClimateInfluence #Bikes4All
Angela Lansbury as Murder, She Wrote's Jessica Fletcher, a mystery writer who got to the bottom of every crime she came across - and whose favorite mode of transport was the bicycle.

#BicycleBirthday Angela Lansbury
October 16 (1925-2022)
October 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Big changes could be coming to America’s dietary guidelines!

Experts are calling for a stronger focus on plant-based diets and water over cow’s milk in the 2025-2030 recommendations.

Learn what the science says and why this shift is so essential. 👇

www.pcrm.org/news/news-re...
Incoming Administration Urged to Follow Health Experts’ Recommendations to Promote Plant-Based Diets in 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans
www.pcrm.org
January 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM