Lloyd Alter
lloydalter.bsky.social
Lloyd Alter
@lloydalter.bsky.social
Author of"The Story of Upfront Carbon," reformed architect and developer, teacher of sustainable design at Toronto Metropolitan University. https://lloydalter.substack.com
Agreed, they need full doors without gaps, and usually that is how they are done.
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Love it! Took the kids there and couldn’t get them out of the pool. In February!
November 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Tactical Urbanism?
November 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Best I have seen so far: "Sandwiches are a form of free spinach."
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Calgary is a hotbed of prefab straw bale construction.
November 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I wrote that article a few years ago, and there are no links to the studies. I am looking for them.
November 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Does Eglinton still have it? I will have to check! I have not been there in decades.
November 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
there was a rezoning sign in front of it for the longest time
November 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I looked at this a few years ago; I calculated that it took six seconds to walk to the dining room light switch before I got my Hue bulbs, and that I did this four times a day. It added up to a quarter pound's worth of calories not worked off per year.
November 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Single-stairs let you build small, efficient buildings like they do in Europe. It gets so hard here when you have to do two stairs and a corridor between them. And they are safe, even when made of wood like this one lloydalter.substack.com/p/six-years-...
Six years ago, I called this the future of housing. It still is.
Here's what happens when a talented architect builds a home for four families, no developer needed.
lloydalter.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
And you know the importance of figuring out noon!
November 1, 2025 at 11:51 PM
We have an LG OLED 55“ and it is glorious. We sit 5’ away, and every Blue Jays game or movie I think I want it bigger. 65s now cost what I paid for 55, go for it.
November 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
great point about his hate on modern toilets.
October 31, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The toilet is better quality too than the Home Depot special they put in.
October 31, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I agree, I worry about this overconfidence, which is why my wife calls me such a Debbie Downer.
October 31, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The TD ads with Springer were boring when they ran years ago. They couldn’t even make new ones?
October 31, 2025 at 5:50 PM