Three of the top five British grid electricity records smashed in 2025! This is a huge success story, despite what Russian bots and U.S fossil fuel shills scream on X. Every unit of clean domestic energy we produce means a safer future for our children…🥳

It’s the final part of the Goat Ritual. I told you about it before. Next Christmas season, I hope to show and tell you more. I love how Ukrainian traditions come to life.

it looks like the rain will break midday so i can go for a bike ride. i try not to get wrapped up in resolutions, but i like to Do A Thing on new year's day that sets direction or priorities or some third thoughtful thing. like, let's start this year on a bike ride, see where that takes us.

London is fast becoming a cycling city. As each new piece in the network appears—which has more than quadrupled from 90 to 431 km since 2016—so do new cyclists. Its infrastructure now sees a stunning 1.5 million daily users—a 43% spike since 2019—moving nearly half as many people as the Tube below.🧵

London is becoming a cycling city. As we continue to expand London’s cycle network, the number of daily bike trips is soaring. Cycling has risen by more than 40% since 2019 to 1,500,000 trips every day.

Griffin Protome from a Cauldron (Greece, Samos, 650-640 BCE) Harvard Art Museums, Boston

Gisteren een nieuw NL record wind-op-zee: 105 GWh. Daarvoor moet alles kloppen: (1) de hele dag veel wind, (2) van de Zeeuwse kust (Borssele) tot boven de Wadden (Gemini) en (3) beperkte productie uit zon en wind op land, zodat niet afgeschakeld hoeft te worden. #grafiekvandedag

Women, dogs and scooters on the riverside cycle path - Yilan, Taiwan last week

I hate to fly because there's no solution to planes' global warming and none forthcoming. But if you have family who live across the sea what do you do? To see them I fly. I will at least take pictures out of the window. This shows in the distance the power grid near Incheon and Seoul, Korea.

This footbridge crosses a main road in central Taipei. The alternative is zebras at street level, waiting nearly two minutes for the lights. Out of a crowd, only two took the footbridge. I know why they built them (in Richmond too, where I live), but why do we hate them, and why didn't they know?

Taipei streets

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: < A day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

"Industry delegates outnumbered climate experts by 14 to one at recent ICAO meeting." www.theguardian.com/environment/... No wonder airports are being expanded.

Running on the beach after sunset last night at Châtelaillon-Plage, France

Woman with a cigarette this morning at a café table in Châtelaillon-Plage France (smoking away from her companions at the table)

Seascape #Scape #Focus #SensoryArt #EastCoastKin #Photography #NaturePhotography #LandscapePhotography (pano so looks better if you click)

Expanding airports should not be a priority. More people want to see investment in rail. Help us tell the government not to expand airports! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71... We have until 24th Sept to reach 10k sigs. Pls sign and share!

It’s #FlowerFriday! Enjoy this amazing dahlia I photographed on a recent trip #bloomscrolling #macrophotography #flowers #florals #PhotographersUnited #eastcoastkin

Port du Loiron, Angoulins, France, yesterday afternoon. A dozen cabins facing a little harbour, an umbrella pine.

I love France but... a charge of €49 to change your internet provider, apparently applicable to everyone, does not seem compatible with the idea of promoting competition.

If EU is not willing to abdicate its energy sovereignty, and keeps pushing for… There are still 5 hard energy policy constraints that cannot be bypassed. Ronnie and I remind you that core reality ~ Just there 👇~ www.polito.it/sites/defaul...

Opmerkelijk weinig uren met negatieve (en zeer lage) stroomprijzen in juli. Nauwelijks zomerse dagen en weinig (zee)wind speelt parten. Het leidt tot een gemiddelde stroomprijs deze maand, maar liefst 30% hoger dan in juni (en in juli '24). #grafiekvandedag

former aluminium works at Portovesme (Sardinia), from the ferry from Carloforte, last month.

Cafe tables in Cagliari, earlier this month

We are ending the era of Russian fossil fuels in Europe for good! We propose a gradual phase-out of Russian gas and oil imports, to be completed by the end of 2027. This will end energy and economic risks, while ensuring stable, cleaner, and secure energy for all EU countries ↓ europa.eu/!CrrR3m

Why, Jan, do firms not do these cost effective things?

Apparently bigger airports will reduce emissions, because fewer planes will have to 'stack' as they wait to land. Nonsense. Supply increases to fit capacity. If airports expand, so will the number of flights. Sign the petition to stop airport expansion now:

As EU gas demand from the power sector finally resumes its downward trend - EU natural gas consumption hits a new multi-decade low for the month of April. www.bruegel.org/dataset/euro...

Congratulations to the Commission (where I used to work). Also to the cycling organisations of Europe. Even back in the 90s, any time a senior Commission official met cyclists anywhere in Europe and asked what they wanted, high on the list would be Bikes on trains. Great organisation!

International train ticketing perhaps taken a bit far - these are the options that first come up when you are in Cefalù (north Sicily) and want to buy a ticket to Agrigento (south Sicily). But, as Jon Worth would argue, better to make it easier than impossible.

The €2bn question: why has Eurostar still not ordered any new trains? crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/the-e2bn-que...

The world's clean-energy investments are now twice as large as those in fossil fuels, the latest IEA data shows

Today, over 400 miles & 28 walking days since departing the southernmost point, I arrive at the easternmost point of mainland Scotland. Thus completing the first leg of my expedition. It feels like a normal morning. I’m sure it’ll sink in as I walk. Coffee first.

A man in a side street on the phone (Ortigia, Syracuse, Sicily)

Who are the Americans?

Man reading in the late afternoon - Ortigia, Syracuse, end of last month

Den Haag wint Europese prijs voor fossielvrij beleid dankzij ons initiatiefvoorstel voor een verbod op fossiele reclame. En er volgen steeds meer gemeenten! 🎉

love Holland - and this looks like there

State of the Union: Delirious. Royal Union Saint Gilloise @rusg.bsky.social are champions of Belgium again after 90 years. Normal service will resume on this feed tomorrow.

flight free trip from London to southern Italy (part 4): paulhhodson.wordpress.com/2025/05/25/o...

What a journey! This family of four took several trains, a ferry and a bus to make it from Oxford to Corsica. And by the end of the trip their 9 year old, even said: "Overall, I liked the travel more than the holiday!"