Post-Pandemic ‘Metro Makeovers’ Could Bring Better Pedestrian, Bike Access
Dense cities across Europe are making bike lanes and pedestrian thoroughfares the linchpins in their plans to slowly return citizens to some semblance of normal life—partly in anticipation of a transit-wary public, and partly to double down on a pre-pandemic trend of banning cars from city cores.
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Blistering Critiques for Moore’s Planet of the Humans: Short on Facts, Arbitrary in Style
An Earth Day release by filmmaker Michael Moore and director Jeff Gibbs, purporting to show that a clean energy transition won’t help address the climate crisis and that climate campaigners have sold out to “wealthy interests and corporate America”, has spurred an avalanche of critical analysis, prompting one of its distributors to take the online video out of circulation before putting it back up a half-day later.
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Pandemic Points to Resilience Gaps in Supply Chain Management
Recent pandemic-driven shortages have made it clear that mapping supply networks, reconfiguring procurement, and incorporating “disruption-related metrics” into the evaluation of suppliers are critical to building resilience into global supply chains.
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CoronaCulture: ‘Fragile Moment’ Brings Outbreaks of Decency, Ethical Shift
The current long moment of enforced solitude is an opportunity to recognize how pre-pandemic life was really quite appalling for far too many people, and to vow to work together to ensure that we do not simply revert to the unkind, unjust status quo post-pandemic, writes Berlin-based Globe and Mail columnist Elizabeth Renzetti.
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