Stacey Waspe
writer, designer, marketer, project manager :: Waspe One Name Study :: genealogy, gardens, pollinators, zero waste :: settler :: she / her :: Toronto 🇨🇦 Born @ 329.56 PPM CO2
- Someone always eats the holiday cookie ingredients before I manage to actually make the holiday cookies. Next year: sticky notes!
- Tree finally decorated.
- Reposted by Stacey WaspeStudy in Helsinki indicating benefits of portable air cleaners on lowering infection risk in daycare centers, less absences & parent absences from work in intervention vs. reference (no air cleaner) groups. Cleaning indoor air is not difficult and it works. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Stacey WaspeIt's midwinter's eve tonight. If you're quick about it, you can start your timed THE DARK IS RISING read-along before midnight. (tonight's portion is Chapter 1, 'Midwinter's Eve'. Tomorrow is 'Midwinter Day' and 'The Sign-Seeker'.)
- Levi’s For Me ad (c) 1973. That’s some copy.
- My most used emoji of 2025 has been 🫠, my all-purpose response to <waves hands wildly>. For 2026, I would like to replace it with 👏 or 🎉. I would suggest a more irreverent replacement but don’t want to court anything untoward.
- Best sticker. #hippos4life
- Reposted by Stacey WaspeThere's a big hole in Toronto's Climate Plan. A policy that would tackle the biggest source of pollution and make our homes safer is at risk of being shelved this week 😨 We can prevent that from happening by speaking up right now!
- Reposted by Stacey WaspeYule ≠ Christmas Yule is one of the oldest winter solstice festivals, with origins among the ancient Norse thousands of years ago. Although today it’s heavily associated with, and even confused with, Christmas, the celebration existed long before Christianity. 🧵⬇️
- Reposted by Stacey WaspeCanada’s Big Six banks have engineered a $2.2 trillion mortgage debt bubble. According to a new report by @maketheshift.bsky.social, banks’ lending practices have pushed home prices out of reach and left the public holding the bag. breachmedia.ca/canadas-big-...
- Reposted by Stacey WaspeIn the near future, developers and city government will have to contend with displaced tenants whose buildings have been demolished to build condos that will never happen. These tenants have been promised new affordable units. It'll be a class action lawsuit. www.thegrindmag.ca/toronto-cond...
- Reposted by Stacey WaspeThe Doug Ford government is setting its sites on conservation authorities for the fifth time, merging the watershed protection agencies. Staff tell @fatimabsyed.bsky.social it may ‘slow approvals, create confusion’ — not to mention it's leaving them with ‘whiplash.’ thenarwhal.ca/ontario-cons...
- Baking focaccia. Yeast is weird.
- Wolfsbane (also Monkshood and Aconitum) is finally blooming, just in time for werewolf season. (Note: extremely toxic!)
- Repaired a hole in the arm of this thrifted Marks and Spencer extra fine lambswool sweater. Blanket stitched around the outside and then single crocheted in a circle until it was all joined up. Finally remembered to decrease so I didn’t make an oversized patch. 🤣 Not perfect, but wearable.
- Reposted by Stacey WaspeYesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right. Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
- Reposted by Stacey WaspeI helped the Centre for Civic Governance on an exciting new report about the jobs potential of renewable energy and energy conservation investments in Canada. The numbers are huge: 6.3 to 9.5 million job years of new construction work from now to 2050: ccg.eco/research/job.... /2
