Sit back & enjoy the latest episode of The Wandering Ecologist podcast, where host Penny Green talks to Sussex Wildlife Trust's Henri Brocklebank about the Sussex Kelp Recovery Project. Listen on your usual podcast provider now!  https://f.mtr.cool/joodistbob 📸 Paul Naylor

Glorious photos of a Male Sparrowhawk spotted outside the Discovery Centre at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve recently by Ollie Owen & posted on our Nature Table

Health consultants and Greens call for a report into increasing air pollution on the Lewes Road. Labour says no! Shameful!

“You came and looked and loved the view, Long known and loved by me, Green Sussex fading into blue With one grey glimpse of sea” - Alfred, Lord Tennyson 📸: Anne Katrin Purkiss

Thank goodness for that. Something that shouldn’t have happened, happened. And now it’s set to unhappen. Great for students, great for research in general and great for Britain. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

BREAKING: we are taking legal action against France for failing to protect seabirds from bycatch. 🎣🐦 With Sea Shepherd FR & Défense des Milieux Aquatiques, we want to ensure that they: a) Adequately collect data on bycatch. b) Implement required mitigation measures to reduce this hidden tragedy.

Extremely worried for the awful situation of the Palestine Action activists on hunger strike. Still awaiting trial, some for over a year. Green MPs and peers have written to David Lammy, calling for urgent action and fair treatment.

Burning wood doesn’t just pollute your home – it also pollutes your local community and harms the health of your neighbours. This #CleanAirNight, share the facts about wood burning so we can protect the health of everyone in our communities.

The impact of #WoodBurning on our neighbours is often overlooked. If you can smell woodsmoke, you're breathing in harmful toxins that can seriously affect your #Health. You can order our free posters via the link. www.mumsforlungs.org/news/wood-bu...

In 2027, Brighton & Hove will elect new councillors. Interested in finding out more about being a Green candidate? Join us next Tuesday at 6:30pm online! Open to all. go.bhgp.uk/be-a-cllr

We are all familiar with the smell of burnt kerosene around airports but there is little data on passenger #airpollution exposure. Some French scientists set out to investigate. For the Guardian, my latest piece looks at UFP exposure. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Earlier this week the ATE funding for the next four years was announced. Brighton receives £4.5m, which sees it near the top of the per-capita funding. Unfortunately, East and West Sussex are both towards the bottom end of the table:

🔴 REVEALED 🔴 The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. 📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇

Would you like to see something both cute and Christmassy? My friend Claire Tomlinson has made a short film about the local Wagtail roost: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnfP... @sussexwildlife.bsky.social @sussexornitholo.bsky.social

The Met Police seem to think that the royals should be allowed to get away with anything. Investigate Andrew NOW. #AbolishTheMonarchy #Epstein

2025 wildlife highlight from David Bentley:  "I saw this rare & spectacular Golden-bloomed Grey Longhorn Beetle at Castle Water, Rye Harbour Nature Reserve in June. With antennae longer than its body, the whole creature is longer than its name - a full 2 inches in total! Longhorn indeed...!"

"South Fork Wind, the first commercial-scale offshore wind farm in the US, is exceeding expectations for power generation and co-existing with the marine environment."

Interested in finding out more about becoming a Green councillor? Join us online on Tues - non-members welcome! 🗓️ Tuesday 16th Dec, 6.30pm 🔗 go.bhgp.uk/be-a-cllr

There will inevitably be calls for the UK to align with the EU’s delayed ban on petrol & diesel cars. But this line suggests Badenoch doesn’t understand what’s happening here. China is making cheap EVs. It’s delaying the transition that helps China cement its dominance. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"You're a government of cowards" Zack Polanski calls out the Labour government's inhumane approach to asylum- highlighting continued austerity as the root cause of structural issues in our society join.greenparty.org.uk

Bill increases of nearly a third for millions of ordinary people have helped Thames Water's profits soar to over £400 million. Foreign hedge fund lenders want more power to pollute our waters and raise our bills. Privatised water is a scam. Let's bring it back into public hands.

In case it wasn't already obvious why Farage and his party are spreading misinformation about the climate crisis and trying to blame the most vulnerable for the problems caused by inequality - they've just received a record donation from a jet fuel multimillionaire!

60,000 African penguins starve to death after sardine numbers collapse – study Climate change and overfishing contribute to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds.

A new electric ferry for Londoners. "After being progressively phased into operation, the 150-passenger boat, with capacity for 100 bicycles, will cross the river every 10 minutes from each side on weekdays and every 15 minutes on weekends." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A reminder to dispose of your plastics properly! Plastic is a nightmare for wildlife. This carefully curated Blackbird nest was found with plastic packaging material running through it. It's hard to see at first - imagine how tricky this is for a Blackbird. 📷Blackbird nest © Roy Williams

It is great to hear @sianberry.bsky.social MP calling for the enactment of the socioeconomic duty. The UK Government have said they will, but they are now dragging their feet. It's time to unlock this vital tool for tackling inequality at a local level.

The Chancellor explicitly references the negative legacy of Brexit on the UK economy - so why is her govt so opposed to taking steps like joining the customs union or single market with all the economic benefits these would bring? #Budget2025

Gambling taxes are long overdue and an ethical way to raise revenue. But while advertising and lobbying are so rampant, harms will continue until they are controlled. #Budget

Since 2011 fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury a whopping £133bn and added to yet more climate emissions. Freezing it yet again is reckless & irresponsible #budget2025

Rachel Reeves earmarks £5m for secondary school libraries. Less than £1,200 per school. You couldn’t even replace the carpet for that.

I'm old enough to remember Labour suspending its own MPs who voted to scrap the two-child benefit cap ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Growing @greenparty.org.uk membership 📈 Growing the pressure on Labour to tax extreme wealth fairly 📈 Growing the movement to make hope normal again 📈 Join.greenparty.org.uk

👀 So while all eyes were on the budget, Ministers just slipped out their North Sea Future Plan. While it’s good to see them stick to manifesto pledge not to grant new licenses, it’s a shame to see approval of “tiebacks” to existing fields - unnecessary concession that undermines climate messages

"Would avoid 800,000 cases of asthma symptoms, 2,000 hospital visits & 4,500 premature deaths... $46bn in health benefits in 2032" Because of a "cost to industry of 'hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars'" Sounds good cost benefit to me. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"But the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are still socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."

The South Downs National Park is crammed with amazing history! ⚔️ 🏰 Find out about efforts to restore these incredible paintings of cultural heroines from the 1500s 👸 👉 www.southdowns.gov.uk/restoration-...

Brexit is the reason today’s Budget squeezes families, yet the government is still shuffling towards solutions that demand real urgency. We need far bolder steps back towards the single market if we want future budgets that lift people up rather than drain them.

Totally munched!

"We must demand that another world beyond capitalism is possible." ✊ Cllr Marina Lademacher speaking at the Brighton climate march last week.

100,000 new members. 175,000 members and counting. And we're not slowing down anytime soon. @zackpolanski.bsky.social speaking in Brighton on Friday @greenparty.org.uk

Great to have Zack in Kemptown yesterday to welcome Lloyd Russell Moyles to our party. Welcome Lloyd! 🌳

Totally munched!

Friston Forest: good all year but absolutely perfect in the Autumn. 📷 Sam Moore

Here I am again. 🎺 It was such a delightful moment as I wasn't expecting it and was surrounded by esteemed colleagues who were equally joyful. #LDreporter