@CillianCollins

Irish architect (MRIAI) working with @perkinswill_VAN. Certified Passive House Designer. LEED AP. Enjoy swimming,cycling,running:)

 Vancouver
ca.linkedin.com/in/cilliancollins
Joined July 2012
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grim predictions that more than 90% of emperor penguin colonies will be “quasi-extinct” by 2100 😢
Prof. Eliot Jacobson
@EliotJacobson24 Aug 2023
In a year of very sad news for sentient life, this may be the saddest news yet: "When the sea ice breaks earlier, chicks can fall into the water and drown, or they may drift away on floes and the adults just lose them and then they would starve to death" cnn.com/2023/08/24/world/emp…

‘Catastrophic’ loss: Huge colonies of emperor penguins saw no chicks survive last year as sea ice...

As rapidly warming global temperatures help push Antarctica’s sea ice to unprecedented lows, it’s threatening the very existence of one of the continent’s most iconic species: emperor penguins.

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Want to know what the apocalypse will be like? Look no further than the terrifying art of John Martin, a long forgotten 19th century painter you've probably never heard of...
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🧵Since it is becoming hard to track, here is a thread of the simply astounding weather records planet Earth has started shattering in recent weeks: 1. Dramatic flood events have begun striking various countries around the world simultaneously this week. xitter.cf/Rishusharma26/status/1…
Rishu🇮🇳@Rishusharma269 Jul 2023
थुनाग बाजार जिला मंडी में देखिए तबाही का मंजर ।
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Zack Labe@ZLabe9 Jul 2023
Okay... For more info: nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2…. For more graphs: zacklabe.com/antarctic-sea-i….
Line graph time series of 2023's daily Antarctic sea ice extent anomaly compared to 2016, which was previously the record for the largest magnitude sea ice anomaly. 2023 is a record for low for the current date and now a large outlier. The range in sea ice anomalies between 1979 and 2022 is also shown. Anomalies are computed to a 1981-2010 baseline using passive microwave satellite data.

ALT Line graph time series of 2023's daily Antarctic sea ice extent anomaly compared to 2016, which was previously the record for the largest magnitude sea ice anomaly. 2023 is a record for low for the current date and now a large outlier. The range in sea ice anomalies between 1979 and 2022 is also shown. Anomalies are computed to a 1981-2010 baseline using passive microwave satellite data.

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New 2023 highest temperature in Europe returns to Spain today with 39.9C at Almonte. 4 stations >39C, Portugal also reached 39C yesterday and today. The first 40C in Europe is a matter of days. In France 34.8C today, the 2023 highest.
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Nice to be back in person teaching with @PassiveHouseCan hosted by @RDHBuildings working through high performance assemblies (though will be my last in Canada for a while). And as it was 4.30pm on a Friday there was beer:)
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Daily Star
@dailystar20 Oct 2022
The Daily Star lettuce has come out victorious in the battle of the year - to see whether it could outlast Prime Minister Liz Truss in #LizVsLettuce [THREAD]
The Daily Star Lettuce celebrating with a glass of fizz

ALT The Daily Star Lettuce celebrating with a glass of fizz

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Join us for an in-depth talk on Sectoral Transition: Transportation, Built Environment, Industry with @CillianCollins from Perkins&Will and Julia Balabanowicz from Innergex Renewable Energy @innergex_ine Register before tickets sell out by April 27th at generatebc.ca
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The video that President Volodymyr Zelensky demonstrated during his virtual address to the U.S. Congress earlier on March 16. Video: Zelenskiy/Official/Telegram
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“Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine” “We live in each other’s shelter” On this #StPatricksDay #Ireland 🇮🇪 stands in solidarity with the people of #Ukraine We are thinking of you today
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Mick Ryan, AM
@WarintheFuture17 Mar 2022
There have been many fine journalists covering this war from inside #Ukraine. They have been essential to shining a light on a war that Russia would like to keep hidden. The service, and sacrifices, of those who are keeping us outside Ukraine informed is worthy of deep respect.
Chris Reason@ChrisReason715 Mar 2022
Such heavy bombings in Kyiv over 48 hours, it is almost fortunate so many people have left the city. This drone shot shows why. #Kyiv #Ukraine️
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Portland Cement Association @PCA_Daily releases a roadmap to carbon neutrality in 2020. Full of good ideas but the road has a few missed turns and some big gaps. treehugger.com/american-ceme…
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Peter Kalmus
@ClimateHuman11 Jul 2021
This is one of the saddest pairs of images I have ever seen.
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Canadian Architect@CdnArch3 Feb 2021
Here's Andy Thomson's run-down of what architects (and really, anyone using buildings) needs to know about airborne #COVID. Especially important in getting a handle on #COVIDSecondWave. TL;DR summary follows... 1/ canadianarchitect.com/archit…

What every architect needs to know about air and SarsCov2

Any infection control strategy can be compared to Swiss cheese. A single strategy is like a single barrier, full of holes. A number of slices of defences adds up towards a near blockage of transmis...

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Anthony Leiserowitz@ecotone214 Jan 2021
Turns out that everyone who divested from fossil fuels for moral reasons, avoided serious financial losses too. yaleclimateconnections.org/2…
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Next week Cillian Collins will join us at the #PassiveHouse Happy Hour to present SoLo. Get the Happy Hour Zoom link now to learn about the stewardship-based model that informed SoLo’s design, project challenges and lessons learned. @PassiveHouseCan ow.ly/N96H50D3LJG
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RTÉ News
@rtenews7 Nov 2020
US president-elect @JoeBiden reads the words of Irish poet Seamus Heaney
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Using Passive House principles, @perkinswill prototypes a secluded alpine home high in the mountains of British Columbia. ow.ly/yCwj50C6zLp
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The New Yorker
@NewYorker20 Sep 2020
The wildfire crisis is an aspect of the climate crisis. But last Monday, President Trump told people to trust him that it will “start getting cooler,” and added, “I don’t think science knows, actually.” nyer.cm/OrMIYnJ

The Tragedy of the West Coast Wildfires

The disaster encapsulates a moment in which both science and the everyday rhythms of American life seem to be under assault.

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“The last fully intact ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic has collapsed, losing more than 40% of its area in just two days at the end of July...” reuters.com/article/us-clima…

Canada's last fully intact Arctic ice shelf collapses

The last fully intact ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic has collapsed, losing more than 40% of its area in just two days at the end of July, researchers said on Thursday.

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