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The New Urban Order

By Diana Lind

Exploring cities around the world, and the housing, climate, mobility, culture, and tech in them.

NextDraft

By Dave Pell

The day's most fascinating news from the Internet's Managing Editor

I have been reading this for years, and now he is on Substack. My favourite email and now one of my favourite substacks.

- Lloyd Alter

The Toronto Time Traveller

By Adam Bunch

Fascinating stories from the city's past, including murder, rebellion, scandal and plague — from the author of The Toronto Book of the Dead & The Toronto Book of Love. Plus all the latest heritage news and events.

Ground Floor

By Henry Grabar

Notes from street level

Sustain What

By Andy Revkin

A regular dose of sanity and substance amid the spin around climate and sustainability challenges.

SUSTAIN INITIATIVE by Jennifer Newton

By Sustain Initiative by Jennifer Newton

Here to help you take small + intentional steps towards a life that’s safer for our families and kinder to the planet. Weekly posts about consumerism, low-waste lifestyle changes, and intentional living/ spending. By writer and historian Jennifer Newton.

"I’m here to help you take small + intentional steps towards a more sustainable life." And they add up!

- Lloyd Alter

the biggest little things

By p.j. melton

life, the universe, and everything and stuff

I have known PJ for years, and can't imagine what she and other Americans are going through right now.

- Lloyd Alter

Blood in the Machine

By Brian Merchant

Writing and reporting on AI, tech, labor and power. Delivered twice a week. For everyone Silicon Valley is happening to.

standstoreeson

By William E Rees

William E Rees, PhD, FRSC Professor Emeritus UBC Faculty of Applied Science Human ecologist and ecological economist; co-developer of ecological footprint assessment.

He invented the carbon footprint and is an inspiration.

- Lloyd Alter

Nihon Bites

By Emika Oka

A compilation of everything related to Japanese food, culinary delights and culture.

Kent’s Substack

By Kent Peterson

Most of what I post here is typed on one of my many old manual typewriters.

His stories are lovely.

- Lloyd Alter

Andrea Learned On Climate Influence

Even in this time, there is still so much opportunity to step it up with Climate Influence. This text/audio newsletter will be full of insights, inspiration and shout-outs for where to see it and how to build your own.

Built to Move, Born to Heal: Notes on Midlife Fitness

By Howard Luks MD

A physician /longevity author's take on midlife health, movement, and resilience. I write about fitness, longevity, mindset, and the quiet cost of stillness. Sometimes, it is orthopedic and always focused on living stronger—on purpose.

PastPresentFuture

By Dan Gardner

Exploring history to understand today and shape a better tomorrow.

Longer Forms

By Matthew Lewis

Twitter threads, but as a series paragraphs

The Analog Family

By Katherine Martinko

How can we be better parents in a digital era? Smart guidance on how to fight tech takeover, embrace independence, tolerate boredom, and navigate FOMO, from the author of Childhood Unplugged

Katherine, who I have known for decades and worked at Treehugger, has also started a Substack. She's got an interesting book coming out as well.

- Lloyd Alter

The Green Dispatch

By Paul Hormick

Cutting-edge news and science on the environment and climate change

Close-reading the reruns with Phoebe Maltz Bovy

By Phoebe Maltz Bovy

All the clothes, interiors, and cultural politics of TV shows very much not of the moment.

Urbanism Speakeasy with Andy Boenau

Simple truths about city planning & transportation to help you promote healthy infrastructure.

The Military Philosopher

By Robert A Mosher (he/him)

Applied Historian and Independent Analyst and Scholar of War, Warfare, Peace, and Policy from the moment the raw material for weapons comes out of the ground to the moment we hear Taps or Last Post over the grave of the last veteran.

Cargobike Culture

By James Turner

The internet's favourite weekly newsletter about cargobikes, delivered from the cycling utopia of Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Bob’s Bizzare

By Bob BAAL

Just a Substack amoungst Substacks

this is so obscure and so interesting....

- Lloyd Alter

Living in a Cave

By Jane

Our family's journey of learning to thrive whilst living beyond growth-obsessed economics - the ups, the downs and what we're discovering. (And no, we don't actually live in a cave, despite what growth idealogues would like you to believe...)

HIGH SPEED, from Taras Grescoe

The Newsletter of the Global Passenger Rail Revolution

The Carbon Architect

By Steven Biersteker

Exploring carbon in architecture, one diagram at a time.

great diagrams!

- Lloyd Alter

Carbon Upfront!

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