Stroud District Green Party

Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant – so what is it and how does it work? The site in Fukuoka is only the second power plant of its type in the world, harnessing the power of osmosis to run a desalination plant in the city

Japan has just opened its first osmotic power plant 🌊⚡

This works by mixing fresh & salt water across a membrane, creating pressure that drives a turbine to make electricity.

This site will generate 880,000 kWh a year...while helping run a desalination plant providing fresh water to the city 👏

Zack Polanski to headline NEU conference Green Party’s vision for education ‘perfectly mirrors’ the NEU’s, general secretary Daniel Kebede tells Tes

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NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.

All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Attention is scarce. Storytelling strategy matters more than ever Environmental journalism has long struggled with a practical problem: how to make distant ecological change feel relevant to people whose daily lives are shaped by more immediate concerns. Scientific…

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Journalist Lucía Torres argues stories rooted in people’s lived experiences help audiences grasp climate impacts without losing scientific accuracy. Collaboration and experimentation, she says, are key.

It is absolutely heart breaking watching years of relationship building, interface and quality monitoring NHS work just recklessly binned (along with many of the staff) by this government for no good reason.

Atmospheric CO2 concentration graphed from 1957 to present, showing a continuous increase to current 429 parts per million. The annual natural cycle of slight ups and downs can also be seen. Measurements are taken hourly at the top of Mauna Loa, Hawaii

The latest update from the Mauna Loa CO2 observatory, shows current #carbondioxide concentrations continue to accelerate upward. The latest reading? 429.1 parts per million. Pre-industrial concentrations were under 280 ppm.
#climatechange
#climate

Economic abuse by a partner contributes to one death every 19 days, report finds Financial abuse is a factor in more than half of deaths related to domestic abuse but is often misunderstood

One of those facts about UBI that should be obvious to anyone who gives it any real thought is how significantly it will reduce domestic abuse. In Kenya, unconditional basic income cut domestic abuse in half. In Canada's Dauphin pilot, it dropped by about a third. Everyone needs the power to say NO.

🚨PARLIAMENT TO DEBATE A PETITION FOR BY-ELECTIONS TO BE TRIGGERED AUTOMATICALLY WHEN MP’S DEFECT YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

🚨ON 16 MARCH PARLIAMENT WILL DEBATE A PETITION FOR BY-ELECTIONS TO BE TRIGGERED AUTOMATICALLY WHEN MP’S DEFECT

Contact your MP NOW and ask them to attend and support the petition

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Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

How would a wealth tax work in practice? Who would pay it? How would it be collected? Won't super rich people just leave? We address some of these common questions.

Love the sound of it, but curious about how a wealth tax would work in practice?

Here's everything you need to know, from who would pay it, to how it would be collected:
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We're proud to be a part of the Green Menace

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Reform are against 20mph being introduced across Gloucestershire too, despite the obvious health, clean air, noise pollution and personal safety benefits.

- More support to people claim help they are entitled to. Lending council equipment and vehicles to community groups. - Promoting volunteering for council workers (esp. with key skills) to help out charities and community groups. - More early intervention in social care.

Wakefield District Green Party is campaigning for Real Change for Ordinary People.

We're here to provide a helping hand for local people.

wakefieldgreenparty.org.uk/manifesto/

For about $2.5 billion a day, we could provide a $500 per month UBI to every American — adults and kids. Poverty would be reduced by 65%. Child poverty would drop by over 80%. Extreme poverty would be essentially eliminated. Inequality would drop by about 20%.

We can do/be so much better than this.

Genius

Tories accused of ‘lying’ as defiant Baroness Warsi quits in racism row Baroness Warsi has quit the Conservatives on the eve of their conference in Birmingham

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Greens deputy leader calls for apology from Starmer over false claims that led to death threats Mothin Ali fears for his life after anti-war protest was wrongly described as being in support of Iranian regime

Thank you @mothinali.bsky.social. The Tories have a well-documented history of Islamophobia, having been called out by @sayeedawarsi.bsky.social repeatedly since 2014.

There is no place for Islamophobia in politics.

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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

11 Loopholes in Labour’s Elections Bill which MPs are Pushing to Close Labour MPs break ranks to demand ‘Representation of the People’ law is tightened up to tackle crypto donations, AI deepfakes and more

📌 ICYMI — 11 Loopholes in Labour’s Elections Bill which MPs are Pushing to Close

Labour MPs break ranks to demand ‘Representation of the People’ law is tightened up to tackle crypto donations, AI deepfakes and more

A mixed group of colourful people standing by trees and a river in the sun in Brimscombe, holding leaflets and postcards promoting Helen Elliott-Boult to win the Stroud District Council by-election on 5th March 2926 for Stroud District Green Party - green text reads Don't Forget to vote to Keep Thrupp Green tomorrow!

Don't Forget to Vote and Keep Thrupp Green!

I'm here to:
Listen
Champion community
Support business
Protect environment
Provide for youth
Make roads safe

Promoted by Rob Brookes, on behalf of Helen Elliott-Boult and Stroud District Green Party at 17 Great George St, Bristol, BS1 5QT

Inequality in Britain is rampant, writes @pollytoynbee.bsky.social, and has become so with the help of our electoral system.

Our new research paper, 'Lifting the Lid', links our fragmenting voting system to mass regional deprivation, and regional deprivation to the all-powerful nature of FPTP.

🚨Thursday 5 March - get ready with us!

On 28 March thousands will march in London for love, unity and hope 💜

This Thursday, encourage others to march too:
📱Let others know
📸 Share a photo or video
🚌 Sign up. Book your transport
www.togetheralliance.org.uk @togetheralliance.bsky.social

⏰️ There’s still time to sign your school up for the #BigWalkAndWheel 2026! 🚴‍♂️🚶‍♀️
Join us from 16 - 27 March for the UK’s largest inter-school active travel challenge. 🌍 Because changing how we travel changes everything.
📢 Register now: buff.ly/bkZ2Va7 #schwalbeuk

“The truth is that far from being stolen by unemployed minorities, the Gorton result was the result of a majority of local working people being determined to keep Farage’s party out.”

A poster saying 'Vote Hellen Elliott-Boult on 5 March, Green Party'

A smiling Helen Elliott-Boult standing beside a canal

Wishing @helenelliott-boult.bsky.social the best of luck for the
Thrupp ward by-election tomorrow. If you live in Thrupp don't forget to vote and remember to vote Green!

Wildlife imaging shows that AI models aren't as smart as we think Using AI to identify wildlife reveals a potential "transferability crisis," researchers say. Marketing for AI imaging systems often suggests that models can easily tackle novel scenarios across ecosys...

Reminder: generative artificial so-called intelligence is nothing of the sort.

"Model trained to identify cats using stock images will perform well tested against stock images, not translate into effective cat detection in the wild."

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Ukraine Launches Landmark Legal Action to Hold Russia Accountable for ‘Ecocide’ With environmental damages now estimated at £108 billion, Ukraine is hoping to pioneer the global prosecution of ecocide as a weapon of war

📌 ICYMI — Ukraine Launches Landmark Legal Action to Hold Russia Accountable for ‘Ecocide’

With environmental damages now estimated at £108 billion, Ukraine is hoping to pioneer the global prosecution of ecocide as a weapon of war

🦡It’s #WorldWildlifeDay

Spring has almost sprung! The first blossoms are out and the chiff chaffs are chirping. Tell us about your own wildlife sightings in the comments 🔎👀

🗳️ NEW | Greens lead with all voters under 65, reveals latest YouGov survey:

-- 18-64s --
🟢 Grn: 26%
➡️ Ref: 20%
🔴 Lab: 17%
🔵 Con: 13%
🟠 Lib: 14%

-- Over 65s --
➡️ Ref: 33%
🔵 Con: 26%
🔴 Lab: 15%
🟠 Lib: 14%
🟢 Grn: 6%

Poll: @YouGov, 1-2 March

It's a common refrain for ministers to note Nigel Farage's absence from the Commons, but the stats do seem to back it up. So far this year he has spoken five times and voted seven times. As a very rough, smaller-party comparison, Ellie Chowns of the Greens has spoken 46 times and voted 24 times.