Friends Of Halifax Common
@FriendsHalifax
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Created in 2006 by members of the community, Friends of the Halifax Common is dedicated to protecting the Halifax Common as green space.
Halifax NS
Joined April 2020
Groundbreaking Study Highlights How Design & Development Decisions Affect Embodied Carbon. (& affordable housing!) via @string.
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The lessons of a study from Halifax, Canada can be applied anywhere.
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RT @Greenisamissio1: Night thoughts. When the sun burns, there is no difference between human and animal, everyone gladly accepts the shade….
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RT @Ayan604: An example of decades of developing and following the regional growth strategy. "Vancouver’s suburbs are not sprawling. They’r….
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RT @pmcondon2: “Urbanists today face a bitter truth. We have clung to the belief that by simply allowing more hous….
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A discussion post for the 62nd International Making Cities Livable conference in Potsdam, Germany, October 15-19, 2025ABOVE: In spite of tripled housing units from 1960 to 2020 - far outpacing...
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RT @FriendsHalifax: Parked cars are heating up cities by significantly contributing to urban heat island effect—especially darker cars http….
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The urban heat island effect describes the way urban areas get significantly warmer than the surrounding rural or suburban areas. There are a number of reasons why this occurs, although it can mostly...
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Parked cars are heating up cities by significantly contributing to urban heat island effect—especially darker cars via @physorg_com.
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The urban heat island effect describes the way urban areas get significantly warmer than the surrounding rural or suburban areas. There are a number of reasons why this occurs, although it can mostly...
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RT @CompletedStreet: I still don't trust the traffic engineering profession because they told us hundreds of neighborhoods like these had….
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Even for public transportation widening roads doesn't reduce traffic. So don't let HRM's traffic engineers spend $200m to demolish 50-70 homes, cut 80 trees to add a 2nd bus lane on Robie. Write clerks@halifax.ca: Optimize transit with lane changes & transit priority signals.
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RT @big_pedestrian: The single most important source of green space in cities should be the streets which are 20-35% of urban land. Streets….
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RT @FriendsHalifax: Oil and gas air pollution linked to 91,000 early US deaths/year via @physorg_com Air pollution….
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Air pollution from oil and gas is causing 91,000 premature deaths and hundreds of thousands of health issues across the United States annually, with Black, Asian, Native American and Hispanic groups...
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RT @CompletedStreet: New Substack article: Why 4-Lane Roads Are a Nightmare for Pedestrians and Drivers Alike (link in reply) https://t.co/….
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RT @cityaestheticss: It’s crazy how much money the average American spends on car related expenses. It would be a smart policy to design o….
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Oil and gas air pollution linked to 91,000 early US deaths/year via @physorg_com Air pollution across borders, attributes 1,170 early deaths in southern Canada & 440 early deaths in northern Mexico to US oil and gas air pollution. Tariff?.
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Air pollution from oil and gas is causing 91,000 premature deaths and hundreds of thousands of health issues across the United States annually, with Black, Asian, Native American and Hispanic groups...
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RT @CompletedStreet: New car technology is designed to make corporations money. Pedestrian infrastructure is designed to improve lives. ht….
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RT @FriendsHalifax: ~ 30% of the Halifax Common's 240 acres is parking, mostly for hospitals. @TimHoustonNS's decision to make it free mea….
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~ 30% of the Halifax Common's 240 acres is parking, mostly for hospitals. @TimHoustonNS's decision to make it free means @nshealth must not get how bad cars are for human health: adding GHG emissions, noise, accidents. pollution-taking public money & space for private use.
Every surface parking lot is evidence your city gave up on itself. Get rid of the surface lots and build the city back.
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RT @BradWestPoCo: B.C. is facing the inevitable fallout of an economy built not on value-added manufacturing, technology, innovation, or un….
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RT @modacitylife: "Because we’ve become so adept at cooling the indoors with air conditioning, we’ve forgotten the importance of cooling th….
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Halifax's $200m plan to cut 80 historic street trees to widen Robie will cause irrevocable harm. "There's no technology that cools . the outdoors. as effectively as a tree; public infrastructure with major implications for energy use and public health."@modacitylife.
"Because we’ve become so adept at cooling the indoors with air conditioning, we’ve forgotten the importance of cooling the outdoors, too. There's no technology that cools it as effectively as a tree; public infrastructure with major implications for energy use and public health."
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