Jesse Hitchcock
@jessehitchcock.bsky.social
Working to build a low-carbon future. Researching sustainable transportation, energy efficiency, and regulatory innovation. I love public transit, fermentation, and talking to my neighbours. Find me at the dog park!
📍Calgary/Mohkinstsis
📍Calgary/Mohkinstsis
Since it’s election season, here’s my regular (and unfortunately still necessary since we still haven’t changed the electoral system…) thread on strategic voting if you want to avoid a Conservative government 🗳️
#cdnpoli #election2025 #elxn25
#cdnpoli #election2025 #elxn25
March 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Since it’s election season, here’s my regular (and unfortunately still necessary since we still haven’t changed the electoral system…) thread on strategic voting if you want to avoid a Conservative government 🗳️
#cdnpoli #election2025 #elxn25
#cdnpoli #election2025 #elxn25
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In fact, though this is not widely known, most or all private weather companies in U.S. (including forecasts that you see on TV or your favorite app) are built directly atop backbone of taxpayer-funded instrumentation, data, predictive modeling, & forecasts provided by NOAA.
7/11
7/11
February 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
In fact, though this is not widely known, most or all private weather companies in U.S. (including forecasts that you see on TV or your favorite app) are built directly atop backbone of taxpayer-funded instrumentation, data, predictive modeling, & forecasts provided by NOAA.
7/11
7/11
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As always, Kea provides thorough insight. I appreciate the opportunity to add my thoughts on this. It is so important to emphasize that revoking funding, scrubbing past projects from public websites, and threatening "indirect" costs from grants has wide-ranging negative effects on communities.
It's hard to overstate how important the sustainable transportation research community is to the work of everyone who is trying to reform transportation in this country, and what a scary time it is for a lot of them right now. A few brave folks spoke to me about their experiences.
Sustainable Transportation Research Is Snagged In Trump's Anti-'DEI' Dragnet — Streetsblog USA
President Trump's war on efforts to boost diversity, equity and inclusion is taking important mobility justice research down with it.
usa.streetsblog.org
February 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
As always, Kea provides thorough insight. I appreciate the opportunity to add my thoughts on this. It is so important to emphasize that revoking funding, scrubbing past projects from public websites, and threatening "indirect" costs from grants has wide-ranging negative effects on communities.
My favourite place!! Thomas Raddall Provincial Park ❣️
February 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
My favourite place!! Thomas Raddall Provincial Park ❣️
This Propagandhi song about Gaza AND Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower about the climate horrors BOTH came out in ‘93… I could do with a little less clairvoyance tbh 🫠🫠🫠
open.spotify.com/track/6mNwIj...
open.spotify.com/track/6mNwIj...
Haille Sellasse, Up Your Ass
Propagandhi · How to Clean Everything (Reissue) · Song · 1993
open.spotify.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:15 AM
This Propagandhi song about Gaza AND Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower about the climate horrors BOTH came out in ‘93… I could do with a little less clairvoyance tbh 🫠🫠🫠
open.spotify.com/track/6mNwIj...
open.spotify.com/track/6mNwIj...
Wow, what a thrill to be able to share news on a social media platform!
calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...
calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...
Calgary making 'significant strides,' but still lagging in key housing strategy targets: city admin
Calgary has made progress in delivering outcomes of its housing strategy, but a staff presentation suggests there's still a long way to go.
calgaryherald.com
January 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Wow, what a thrill to be able to share news on a social media platform!
calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...
calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...
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Whew… feels intimidating to build a new platform from scratch! Hi friends - I live in Calgary 🇨🇦, post about walkable cities, get-out-the-vote (especially for young people), energy/climate policy, and being childfree by choice! Oh, and dog pics. This is Leon!
January 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Whew… feels intimidating to build a new platform from scratch! Hi friends - I live in Calgary 🇨🇦, post about walkable cities, get-out-the-vote (especially for young people), energy/climate policy, and being childfree by choice! Oh, and dog pics. This is Leon!
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This is how the CEO of Ford, with the help with Bloomberg, advertised the F-150 Lightning. We need to design and regulate this type of worldview out of existence.
EVs have many benefits over ICE vehicles, but not when we allow them to make the vehicle size, weight, and power arms race even worse.
EVs have many benefits over ICE vehicles, but not when we allow them to make the vehicle size, weight, and power arms race even worse.
January 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This is how the CEO of Ford, with the help with Bloomberg, advertised the F-150 Lightning. We need to design and regulate this type of worldview out of existence.
EVs have many benefits over ICE vehicles, but not when we allow them to make the vehicle size, weight, and power arms race even worse.
EVs have many benefits over ICE vehicles, but not when we allow them to make the vehicle size, weight, and power arms race even worse.
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❕Please sign up if you can. It’s wonderful to have local journalism and very few do it better 💚 #Calgary #YYC #Sprawl
There's no sugarcoating it: 2025 will likely be the end of the line for The Sprawl unless we get more financial support. Read our update—and please pitch in if you can.
An update on The Sprawl’s future | The Sprawl
We have good news and bad news.
www.sprawlcalgary.com
December 14, 2024 at 10:13 PM
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My Energy Inst blog today on how much utilities should be obligated to accommodate new large loads: hyperscale server farms and crypto mining. Current paradigm puts risk on incumbent customers and gives new large loads very costly option on utility service.
energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/12/02/i...
energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/12/02/i...
Is there a “Duty to Serve” Hyperscale Loads?
If we don’t rethink the paradigm for new large electricity customers, they could end up burdening existing ratepayers. Nationally, and in California, electricity demand from the grid has been flat …
energyathaas.wordpress.com
December 2, 2024 at 6:15 PM
My Energy Inst blog today on how much utilities should be obligated to accommodate new large loads: hyperscale server farms and crypto mining. Current paradigm puts risk on incumbent customers and gives new large loads very costly option on utility service.
energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/12/02/i...
energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/12/02/i...