Elena Christopoulos
@BeingElenaLA
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Climate scientist collecting & selling vintage tees & fabulous things. Daily IG drop in stories. Commissioner, City of Santa Monica (Fmr.) Board @queensu
Los Angeles/Toronto
Joined February 2009
Principal Patrick Deane has issued a statement addressing the community on the university’s financial situation. Read the full statement: https://t.co/xWSjKOFUmt
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Jodie Foster said in 1991 that Hollywood "is not a business that is kind to women” directors. 32 years later, she "couldn’t be prouder" of Greta Gerwig and "Barbie." “When I was young, there were really no American women directors, maybe a few. I didn’t think I was allowed to be
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Thank you to the entire team! Every single person who brought their magic. We did it @thedailyshow! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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This project is great: 621 apartments replacing some single family homes right next to transit. https://t.co/tCvezeT5Gt
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Removing on street parking in Toronto in favor of dining parklets led to a nearly 50x increase in revenue as compared to parking fees. The math is common sense - we should build cities for people, not cars!
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Heat-trapping #pollution from #FossilFuels hit new high in 2022 despite record growth in #wind & #solarenergy. We must begin the #FossilFuel phase-out now, starting with no new fossil fuel expansion. @fossiltreaty @guardian #ClimateActionNow
theguardian.com
Researchers say ‘urgent action’ needed as rise in renewables is eclipsed by increase in world’s total energy consumption
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Adrienne Martin finally had enough of extremists in her deep-red community trying to get books banned and to inject religion into her child’s school. Listen to her kick-ass speech before the Granbury Texas school board. It’s going viral for a reason. @MrsAMartini
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How does 380 zettajoules of heat affect the climate system? The hottest June on record, worst wildfire season in Canada, unbearable heat from Asia to Texas, record ocean temps: and now an El Niño on top. @StottPeter, @hausfath, @MichaelEMann and I discuss:
theguardian.com
Rising temperatures in north Atlantic and drop in Antarctic sea ice prompt fears of widespread damage from extreme weather
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Tonight the #CNTower will be lit in a rainbow of colours for the Toronto Pride Parade @PrideToronto / Ce soir la #TourCN sera illuminée en arc-en-ciel pour le Défilé de la Fierté de Toronto
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This is just astounding. Everyone deserves to age gracefully, & that includes in housing.
The truth about our homeless crisis: As Californians age, they are priced out
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2008 v. 2023: I don’t think people realize the extent to which parked cars degrade public space.
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Alright folks, @stan_okl and I are organizing another Los Angeles urbanist mega-meetup. If you were at the last one, you know this is the real deal. Next Thursday at 7pm, Highland Park Brewing in Chinatown. Take the brand-spanking new regional connector there. See you there?
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Spinning some great music from @Elisapie, @SisterRay780, @CrownLandsMusic and an awesome convo with @_aysanabee_ . @AppleMusic HITS!
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Is the City of Ottawa ever going to start taking the housing crisis seriously? The city just released "low-rise design guidelines," claiming that "it is as important for new development to fit well with the pattern of the surrounding context as it is to fulfil intensification
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A Dutch city banned investment properties ('buy-to-let') — here's what happened: - Home prices stayed the same - Rents went up - Wealthy families replaced working class people in neighbourhoods Why? Banning investment properties doesn't add new housing supply — but it does
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨: Do investors raise housing costs, crowd-out first-time homebuyers, and change neighborhoods? My non-twitter co-authors and I study this question by tracking the impact of ban on buy-to-let investment. We can do so almost in real-time! A 🧵(1/14)
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Want to hear and meet the award-winning climate scientist, communicator and @nature_org chief scientist @KHayhoe live? Now you can! Katharine joins us for the "@SPEED2ZERO Perspective“ lecture. Let‘s fill the @ETH_en Audimax on June 26! Free, registration required.
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‘Nowhere is safe now’: wildfire smoke brings #ClimateCrisis home "#ClimateChange isn’t a future problem or a distant one any more. We’re breathing its impacts directly into our lungs today," said Professor @KHayhoe
#ClimateEmergency
theguardian.com
With the Empire State Building and the Lincoln Memorial blotted out, the US is experiencing the climate catastrophe first-hand
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