Spatial Planning For Energy Efficiency in Manitoba Part 1: Hearing Presentation
The following is the transcript from a presentation I gave to Manitoba’s Public Utilities Board on August 31, 2026, regarding Manitoba Hydro’s Integrated Resource Plan and Major New Facility Review. The primary object of concern are the plans to build new gas powered turbines in Brandon, Manitoba during this time of the unfolding climate change apocalypse. This presentation proposes reducing energy demand (or degrowth) through more careful spatial planning, specifically the creation of car free neighbourhoods.
We must change: in the wake of the climate change apocalypse
The deepening climate change apocalypse threatens life on Earth. We must rebel against anti-ecological “normal” ways of living and technologies, cars and lawn mowers included.
The human health toll of cars in Canada
An overview of the direct and long term negative health impacts caused by cars in Canada.
Cars are like AI and both are bad: responding to George Lucas
This was written as a response to “George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts” by Laurence Phelan, which appeared in The Guardian on July 15, 2026.
A Car-Free, anti-work anarchist Day in the life: Toward a Utopian Ethnography of the Imagination
A fictional scenario that follows the daily activities of Kathy, named after Marxist, anti-work author Kathi Weeks, as she navigates life in a car-free, anti-work society.
about World Without cars
World Without Cars was created to inspire change in spatial planning by promoting anti-car ideas and advocating for the restoration of ecosystems, health, and humanity’s connection with the living planet.