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Kathrin Bussmann
@kathrinbussmann.bsky.social
Trilingual Canadian | Toronto based | Linguistics PhD | Fan of bike lanes, renewables & electrification | Pragmatic optimist | Helping to scale climate solutions at elocitytech.com and @verbaccino.bsky.social | Opinions my own.
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#Breaking: Toronto will allow new corner stores in residential neighbourhoods
Toronto will allow new corner stores in residential neighbourhoods
Small-scale retail will be allowed on select 'community streets' downtown.
www.thestar.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Ontario opens applications for EV ChargeOn program for limited time. Up to $1 million will be awarded per EV charger project, with call for proposals open until Dec. 15.

Read on: shorturl.at/jECPN

#EVCharging #ElectricVehiclesCanada #Ontario #OVIN
November 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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NEW: Budget 2025 quiet on EVs, charging infrastructure, rebates. The federal government has bought itself a few more weeks before having to announce the future of EV rebates, as Budget 2025 shifts focus to clean energy and critical minerals investments.

Read on: shorturl.at/U3ufE

#Budget2025
November 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Me after game 7 last night…

#WantedItAll
November 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
As it happens, I have tickets for tonight’s TSO concert. In an email this morning, I’m assured that “If you are a Blue Jays fan, good news—we expect the concert to conclude before the last pitch. Either way, your concert tonight will be a home run.” Cheers, TSO. Much appreciated. 😄

#WantItAll
WORLD SERIES HYPE: Blue Jays and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra WANT IT ALL!
YouTube video by Toronto Blue Jays
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November 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Awww. The littlest trick-or-treaters are afoot now. 🥹👻🎃

You can tell which parents want to get back home by a certain time. They’re ones wearing Blue Jays ball caps. 😄
October 31, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Happy Blue-Jays-Halloween, Canada! 🧢⚾️🎃
October 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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🔌🇺🇾 "Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels." #energytransition
Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World
Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.
www.forbes.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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The clean energy revolution is happening — very, very incrementally.

Hear from @mliebreich.bsky.social and @volts.wtf on how renewables are slowly but surely eating away at fossil fuel power.
Michael Liebreich and David Roberts of Volts at Climate Night Live
YouTube video by Canary Media
www.youtube.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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☀️🔌📈 “According to long-time climate journalist and activist Bill McKibben, humanity has reached the point where it is installing more than a gigawatt-worth of solar panels every day.”

That's enough new solar each day to provide electricity for several hundred thousand homes.

#energytransition
Our friendly neighbourhood fireball
Solar and wind are growing so quickly that they outpaced all the growth in electricity demand this year. Which means they started eating into fossil fuelled power, leading to a modest but significant ...
www.nationalobserver.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Just got my Covid shot AND my flu shot at my local drugstore. No charge, no appointment needed. Thank you, Ontario healthcare system!
October 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
RIP, Jane Goodall. An inspiration to so many, for so many years, all around the world.
The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes.

She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.
October 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Every time I come home from visiting family in Europe, that’s what I feel: Toronto is still a teenager, a work in progress, and therefore full of potential. Good read by @shawnmicallef.bsky.social.
Shawn Micallef: There’s a good reason why some might think Toronto’s best days are behind it. Here’s how we change their minds
The best days for the city lie ahead of it, but there are things we have to get right to make sure that happens.
www.thestar.com
September 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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The electrotech energy revolution is here

The energy system is being transformed by the rapid growth of electrotech. Here's how.

ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
The Electrotech Revolution | Ember
The annual slidedeck from Kingsmill Bond and the Ember Futures team unpacks how electrotech is rewriting the economics and geopolitics of energy.
ember-energy.org
September 16, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Renewable energy and the case for climate optimism with Bill McKibben
Is the clean energy revolution finally here? Over the past few years, the world has experienced a sudden and overwhelming surge in renewable energy installation and generation, outpacing even the most optimistic predictions from experts. This week on the GZERO World Podcast, **Ian Bremmer** talks to with**Bill McKibben** , an environmentalist and author, about the stakes and scale of the global energy transformation. His new book, "_Here Comes the Sun_ ," argues renewables aren’t just a climate fix—they’re a political and economic opportunity. * * * Costs from solar and wind have dropped so dramatically in the last 36 months that they’re now the cheapest way to produce electricity worldwide. And energy independence has become a national security issue amid so much global instability. But while China and Europe are pushing ahead in the race to power the future, the Trump administration is doubling down on fossil fuels. What happens if the US puts the brakes on clean energy, just as the rest of the world hits the gas? Or rather... plugs in the solar battery? Do we risk being left in the dark? _Subscribe to the GZERO World Podcast on_ _Apple Podcasts_ _,__Spotify_ _,__Stitcher_ ___, or your preferred podcast platform, to receive new episodes as soon as they're published_
www.gzeromedia.com
September 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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NEW: BC Hydro pilots V2G program with electric school buses — The $1.1-million initiative will test how EVs can support the grid and provide load flexibility in real-world conditions.

Full story: shorturl.at/29I6T

#EV #V2G #BCHydro #SchoolTransportation
BC Hydro begins new V2G tests with electric school buses
The $1.1-million initiative will test how EVs can support the grid and provide load flexibility in real-world conditions
electricautonomy.ca
September 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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🇨🇦💰"No matter who you are—young or old, well-off or living paycheque to paycheque—the upfront cost of clean technology adoption is likely your number one barrier, as it was for every group analyzed," writes Clean Energy Canada's @trevormelanson.bsky.social and @racheldoran.bsky.social.

New op-ed👇
Canada is full of would-be clean tech adopters — if only they could
Clean Energy Canada partnered with Abacus Data on first-of-its-kind market research to better understand the next adopters of clean technologies.
www.nationalobserver.com
September 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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When you cover a field in solar panels, you don’t cover everything. And in a warming world, that leftover shaded space is invaluable, says @billmckibben.bsky.social.
September 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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China added more solar in H1-2025 than the rest of the world combined ☀️

🇨🇳: 256 GW, 67% of global total, followed by
🇮🇳: 24 GW, and
🇺🇸: 21 GW

Read more: https://ember-energy.org/latest-updates/global-solar-installations-surge-64-in-first-half-of-2025
September 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Arguably the biggest story happening in the world right now and also the most hopeful. #WITHPod

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
'Here Comes The Sun' with Bill McKibben
Podcast Episode · Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast · 08/26/2025 · 54m
podcasts.apple.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Yeah, what is up with the biblical amounts of wasps suddenly??
Welcome to September!
September 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Did you know that the most heat pumps per capita are installed in the coldest countries in Europe?

In Sweden, Finland and Norway there are now more than 40 heat pumps per 100 households, more than in any other country in the world.

www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...
August 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Plug-in balcony solar panels could mean cheaper power. But Canada needs to get on board first.

Germany has seen boom in balcony solar, but murky regulations mean North America slower to adopt
www.cbc.ca/news/climate...
Plug-in balcony solar panels could mean cheaper power. But Canada needs to get on board first | CBC News
How would you like to lower your electricity bill and help power your home using an abundant renewable energy source — the sun? There is an affordable, do-it-yourself solution for people who own house...
www.cbc.ca
August 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Happy Labour Day!
This is the day when we honour and celebrate the history of the Canadian Labour Movement.
Did you know Americans took the idea for Labor Day from Canada?
Or that the holiday dates back 130+ years?
This is the story!

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September 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM