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Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth
None of them through the Strait of Hormuz
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Today I attended the unveiling of the new plaque outside Sheffield Town Hall to commemorate all the amazing tree campaigners. Videos below.
More data for the "get off fossil fuels, reduce energy demand and build more solar and wind farms asap" position. ⬇️
The box shows a summary that I've done of actions to be taken in high emission countries, suggested by the NEB scientists in their Nov 2025 talks, together with the article by @kevinclimate.bsky.social at www.sgr.org.uk/resources/ge... (hoping that I've not misquoted anybody).
Can we now choose the leader of the USA? I’ll choose anyone but the orange buffoon.
What if, communities, councils, charities and foundations, all clubbed in together to establish projects that would remove reliance on fossil fuels.
Bills go down
Emissions go down
Profits are kept local
Idiots at the top can’t pretend we need fracking.
Wealth redistribution is good actually.
Community renewables bring power to the people literally: lowering bills, letting communities put more money into their local economy, all without selling off the whole thing to foreign investors who can siphon off all the profits to tax havens and Canadian pension funds.
Labour HATE that.
Community Renewables are going to play a huge part in the climate crisis, cost of living crisis, wealth redistribution, and making muppets like @dalevince.com so angry they continue to pretend Labour are environmentalists because they @greenparty.org.uk want more community solar which is bad for him
🌊 Sweeping cuts are set to hit UK-funded environmental projects in developing countries, including the Blue Planet Fund, set up following Sir Attenborough’s landmark Ocean doc. These cuts will be a devastating loss for ocean, people & planet.
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Office for Environmental Protection & RSPB on one side - Defra on the other. Who do you trust in a disagreement about wildlife protection? markavery.info/2026/03/03/r...
Rachel Reeves briefly channeled Hannah the Plumber in Spring Statement but what wd Greens do if they had power? We don't know.
😬I'm sure this will be fine😬 "Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study"
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Front door of a 1905 art nouveau architect's house in Etterbeek. At some point in the past 20 years, the amazing iron gate to the porch was removed. I wonder what happened to it. The door doesn't benefit from any particular protection either.
WATCH: This is my favourite thing on the internet right now. Well done Norway! youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
Picture of book: Hannah Critchlow Joined-Up Thinking The Science of Collective Intelligence and its Power to Change Our Lives
Looking forward to this evening’s @humanists.uk #RosalindFranklinLecture with the brilliant Hannah Critchlow!
Globally, mycorrhizal fungal communities move roughly a billion tons of carbon per year into Earth's soils, above all in old-growth forests.
Wild, natural ecosystems are the bedrock of a healthy planet. It's time we started recognising and acting on that.
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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.
Hello—Is a River Alive? is published in paperback in the UK today.
It’s dedicated to the rivers & their guardians.
Thanks to all who’ve supported its journey into the world: read it, talked about it, got in touch.
It’s @waterstones.bsky.social book of the month.
“Hope is the thing with rivers…”
We won the vote for these amendments tonight.
Good news for Newcastle.
Thank you to politicians from all parties for the constructive debate.
Analysis finds urban areas in England where no one lives within 15-minute walk of nature
Government says it is working to solve "postcode lottery" of access to green or blue spaces
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Good for Ed Miliband - who’s also doing far more than the Torygraph, the Tories or Farage to insulate the UK from volatile fossil fuel prices, lately driven up by Trump’s war with Iran
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This is so great. Over the last 12 years beavers have gone from something that governments wanted rid of and few of the NGOs cared about, to being recognised as a native species right across GB. Well done to all those who campaigned to get us here.
The Green Party is the only UK party with a long-term vision for the world we want to see, written and updated by our membership – our Policies for a Sustainable Society.
No other party publishes anything like it. Either because they don't have aspirations or because they hide them.
The Daily Mail has said it obtained "internal documents" revealing the Green Party's migration policy.
As a long-term Green Party activist, I'm very familiar with the actual policy. And what the Mail describes and what the document says are two very different things.
A thread 🧵
Our environment cannot withstand the frivolous excessive consumption habits of the ultra rich. We need to control them but currently they have far too much control over us.
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Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death. The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities....
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NICK CANDY: Why - even as missiles fly over my head -| feel safer in Dubai than in Sadiq Khan's London.... There's more chance of getting stabbed on the capital's street than of being injured in an Iranian attack in the UAE
Proof once again that you can have lots and lots and lots of money and still be thicker than a whale omelette stuck in a submarine door.
🏥 PFAS-free alternatives are already being used in parts of the medical sector including in anaesthesiology, asthma inhalers, and certain medical device coatings.
🤷🏾♂️ If safer alternatives are available, why are #foreverchemicals still in use?
Perched upright on a weathered stump, a small brown Wren tilts its head back mid-call against a soft golden backdrop, alert and vocal.
Many MPs claim to care about nature.
Tomorrow afternoon will be the test.
On Tuesday 3rd March there will be a debate in Parliament on red lines for nature.
We’ll be watching to see who shows up. Empty seats will say a lot.
Tell us who you expect to see there tomorrow. 👇
