Who's gonna tell him? growth was around 2.8% in the US in the year to November 2024

Andy Burnham's central proposal is to introduce electoral reform to enable a progressive coalition to govern for the long term, using this stability to re-nationalise core services: water, public transport, housing. open.spotify.com/episode/3zdj...

I'm not sure skeptical even half covers it

@michaelburchert.bsky.social - have you - or anyone else - put together a bio-based feed on bsky?? If not, shall we?

ARUP opened an exhibition on Blue Biomass, the potential of construction products made from aquatic biomass - kelp, algae, seagrass etc.

Rice straw is an excellent building material... bbc.com/news/article...

We are witnessing a kind of fossil-fuel funded fascism that would be historically fascinating if it wasn't so utterly nightmarish. At the very moment global temperatures appear to be escalating exponentially, the world's second biggest emitter band the very mention of it.

Fascists don’t like learning they are fascists.

Pont Valentre, Cahors. If you see this, post a bridge!

Reform wins by simply walking through the door the BBC holds open

Hey @teamlabouruk.bsky.social , fixed it for you: Reform's immigration plans are 'fascist and authoritarian', say Labour

At least there is one party leader willing to say this:

It's good news for the British left that Your Party is imploding. Your Party would have taken votes from the Greens more than anyone, i.e. they would take each other out, without a pact. But imo a pact with Corbyn & co would be damaging. Greens on their own can bring the left together

Andrew Boraine from Cape Town spoke brilliantly yesterday on how to implement systems change - A Changemakers Guide for Transitioning Towards A Regenerative Built Environment

Carol Ann Duffy. "State Banquet". 2025 👏

Atelier Gardens in Berlin. Former film studios turned event space and hub for creative industries. Great example of adaptive reuse... Don't knock it down, paint it yellow! 💛

That atrium! Phwoar

Used to do Paris to Berlin every couple of weeks, Berlin to London every few months (then back to Paris). A nice day, one or two transfers, catch up on reading, do a bit of work, take a nice nap, see some lovely country, have some wine and a good meal. WONDERFUL.

Toot toot. Taking the train to Berlin today for Bauhaus Erde's Regenerative Futures Symposium

Anyone who lives in South London knows the icon that is khans on rye lane. If you need it, you will find it in khan's. Well now it turns out they are also into art deco restoration. Legendary status more than secured!

Zohran Mamdani's communications game is next level. No British politician matching this at the moment

📊 Ref lead of 5pts Westminster voting intention REF: 27% (-2) LAB: 22% (+2) CON: 17% (-) LDEM: 15% (-) GRN: 12% (+2) via @YouGov, 07 - 08 Sep Chgs. w/ 01 Sep britainelects.com

A gentle plea to anyone involved in conferences in the UK. They don't have to happen at the Excel - they could look like this instead. SIBCA in the Grand Palais, Paris. The second time this year I've had the pleasure of attending a conference in this belle époque beauty.

Polanski secured an overwhelming mandate yesterday for his vision for a bold and outspoken Green party.

Has the @greenparty.org.uk ever occupied the second page in the Financial Times? On the second day of Zack Polanski's leadership they do. @zackpolanski.bsky.social @pickardje.bsky.social

Promising to halve the number of times water companies empty shit into our rivers by 2030? It's gone up 60% since you got into power. Ineffectual, shying away from real solutions, this Labour Government is toast

“this £85 billion represents a direct transfer of value from the public to private owners — a sum extracted while storm overflows proliferated, leakage targets were missed, and river health declined”

Richard Tice, deputy leader of Reform UK has written to the CEO of Octopus Energy putting them "on notice" - essentially for simply generating renewable electricity. We should all be taking the possibility of a Reform government extremely seriously. It will drag the UK back decades

The approach taken by the UK's Labour Government and the police towards pro-palestine protest is the kind of stuff you would expect from an authoritarian regime:

❓Who does Nigel Farage work for? Since 2024 election: £93,904 — MP salary (8.7%) £981,173 — outside income (91%) GB News (£394k) Direct Bullion (£280k) Cameo (£134k) Telegraph (£48k) Nomad Capitalist (£40k) News Corp Australia (£25k) Arizona LibertyNetwork (£25k) www.desmog.com/2025/07/15/w...

I'm growing olives in south London - this seems unusual to me... is this a sign of a particularly hot year?

BECCS boosts the carbon story for timber: "Bioenergy with carbon capture & storage (BECCS) could potentially capture & permanently store over 90% the carbon sequestered in timber building materials. BECCS would prevent release of stored biogenic carbon from the timber element at end-of-life" ARUP

The Government commissioned ARUP to analyse the cumulative carbon emission reductions through to 2050, possible through an increased use of timber. Here it is: sciencesearch.defra.gov.uk/ProjectDetai...

Its clear the Greens are the party to bring the left together @zackpolanski.bsky.social is offering energetic & outspoken leadership that can take the party up a level at the next election and provide a threat to Labour from the left. This is the only way we'll get a Labour Gov to move left

For as long as the Tory/Reform split continues the Lib Dems are more or less guaranteed to hold their local and Westminster seats (and add more).

Aecom's new report for UK Government - "consideration of embodied carbon in new buildings" - manages to completely avoid talking about the elephant in the room: Embodied carbon emissions in construction are completely unregulated in the UK

9 storey concrete building retrofitted with straw insulation in France. #strawhouse #strawbuilding #biobased oikos-ecoconstruction.com/paille-et-re...

Craig White from Agile "Tesla's carbon credit revenue was $2.76 billion in 2024" Why do we not direct this finance towards affordable housing made from biogenic materials?

Following this through logically in the UK... New Building Regulation requiring embodied carbon reductions could result in 10% more homes being delivered within current housing budgets. @asbpuk.bsky.social @istructe.bsky.social

💡Reducing embodied carbon of building also reduces cost. As policymakers across the EU & in the UK consider the economic impacts of climate policies in the pursuit of growth, it feels like an important moment to re-share this research into the cost of low-carbon construction....

"China installed 93 GW of solar capacity last month – almost 100 solar panels every second..."

"In the United States, #BiCRS has the potential to exceed 800 million tonnes of CO2 removed from the atmosphere per year at a net cost less than $100/tonne CO2, with no impact on food production." [Biomass Carbon Removal and Storage] roads2removal.org/wp-content/u...

@woodknowledgewales.bsky.social have publised a paradigm shifting report in how we think about buildings: Welcome to a new era where we have expanded our notion of what buildings are. They are carbon assets - a place to store carbon. woodknowledge.wales/using-wood-i...

After more than a year I'm back on bluesky! And I hear it's been kicking off on here??

Lots of chatter about the timing of 2024 election in the UK. If Sunak goes late (November) as expected, a likely year of el nino boosted climate destruction will have played out. A hot European summer playing out on the news. I reckon November election means climate shoots way up the agenda.

UK Government launched its Timber in Construction Roadmap. Whilst lacking in the kind of tangible policy outcomes that we really need to overcome major hurdles, its at least a positive signal from gov that it recognises importance of timber for getting to Net Zero www.gov.uk/government/p...

Today has been great on @bsky.app - because it's the first time it's found some of the humour that twitter used to have on BIG NEWS days

NEW China's CO2 is to fall in 2024 – & could be facing structural decline – after record clean energy growth reached the level needed to meet rising demand Latest analysis by @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social for @carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi... 1/2

The UK government has had 16 different housing ministers in 13 years. No wonder they have made no progress on tackling the housing crisis, and backwards progress on making housing more sustainable... This revolving door of ministers shows its just not their priority. Now the turn of Lee Rowley:

Tomorrow in London! I'm talking to the rather provocative question: "Can Building With Timber Save The Planet?". Can you guess what I'll say? Hosted by Hattie Hartman, at Roca London Gallery 6.30pm, for The Architects Journal. Register here: www.rocalondongallery.com/activities/a...