Things I learned lately 12 July

• There’s a small area in La Jolla, near San Diego, where the streets are named after Alberta cities. There’s Calgary Ave, Edmonton Ave, Red Deer St, Camrose Ave, and Stettler Way.
• Fusion; Focus; Fiesta; Beetle; Fit; B250; Fiat 500; Chrysler 200; Dart; Micra; Volt; Accent; Echo; Yaris; Matrix; Sonic; Spark; Rio; Mazda 2; ForTwo; Swift. These are all small car models that stopped being sold in North America because 'there's no market for them'.
• There’s an IGA grocery store in Bois Franc, a neighbourhood in Montreal, that has a 25,000 square foot rooftop garden, which the store uses to grow food. It even has beehives for honey.
• 17% of the Netherlands’ electricity is generated by solar. In Canada, it’s 1.1%.
• There are exposed sand dunes up to 5 metres deep in a rather odd place on the outskirts of Ottawa. The Pinhey Dunes are a 10,000 year old remnant of a past shoreline of the former Champlain Sea, which formed as the glaciers of the last ice age melted. The dunes were as recently as the 1950s, much larger than they are now, but planners converted much of the dunes to pine forest.