Robert Ouellette, Chief Researcher

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Robert Ouellette @MESHCities·

15 May

Offers Berndtson' Culture Hacks for Leaders. Take away: Leadership around inclusion demands risk. Embrace it.

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Lloyd Alter @lloydalter·

11 May

This is the worst headline of the worst article by the worst person ever published in @globeandmail . They should be ashamed, as I am for having subscribed for near on 40 years.

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Robert Ouellette @MESHCities·

11 May

The bloomin' swarm, High Park, Toronto. Is spring here? Finally?

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28 Apr

Media scrum in High Park this morning. Mayor John Tory celebrates 60 years of cherry blossoms in the park. As a gesture of friendship, back in 1959 Tokyo donated 2,000 Sakura trees for Torontonians to enjoy. They bloom again next week. The park will be closed to cars.

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G_Penalosa @Penalosa_G·

13 Apr

How to get people out of their cars and into public transit? Auckland did it, by creating a really, really good bus network for very little money. Citywide network + frequency. Not magic; action. #Priority #PUBLICtransit. https://t.co/mYES8p8TP9

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John Hagel @jhagel·

13 Apr

Rejuvenating brains. Neuroscientists found a gene that encodes a protein responsible for age-related cognitive losses, targeted it with special blocking antibodies, and shown in mice these antibodies can rejuvenate old brains to work as well as young ones https://t.co/HOpZe0pUwP

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Robert Rohde @RARohde·

5 Apr

Animation showing the changes in national total greenhouse gas emissions by country from 1850 to 2016.

Data source: PRIMAP-hist v2.0.

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Mike Hudema@MikeHudema·

3 Apr

Norway is banning cars from the centre of Oslo.
Parking spaces are to be replaced with flower beds. 🌸
60km of cycle lanes are being built. 🚲

We have solutions to the #climate crisis. Let's implement them.

#energy #sustainability #innovation #greencities #climatechange

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MaRS@MaRSDD·

4 Apr

The 2019 Gairdner laureates – both international and Canadian – are being recognized for their breakthrough discoveries in research, as well as physical and mental health.

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Senseable City Lab @SenseableCity·

18 Mar

Visiting PhD researcher Martina Mazzarello has created a #Senseable kit to explore Munich and Zhengzhou, the next destinations of our Digital Design City Workshop class. The Rapid Ethnographic tool will help the students explore the context.

#StayTuned

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