Thoroughly recommend this, between @garethkane.bsky.social and @paulbrannenne.bsky.social. Great as informal CPD for built environment professionals, or as an explainer for anyone of the many advantages of timber construction.

I'm always open for editorial commission enquiries! Please contact via link in bio. This was a recent one for Exclusive Resorts' The Club magazine, to illustrate a piece by photographer and writer Chris Wallace recalling his first trip to Venice in 1999.

The UK's water systems are crumbling. Thousands have been left without water in Kent. Our rivers are polluted. Our bills keep rising. This experiment of privatisation has failed. Public Ownership now.

If the UK rejoined the Single Market there would be £42bn a year to spend, jobs galore and it would kill Nigel Farage. Lets do it.

I wrote this a year ago. Seems quite relevant again. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

At times it feels as if climate change *doesn’t even care* that I’m not beach body ready yet.

I just love it when the papers have entire articles about the heat wave, illustrated with fun images of people in parks or at the beach, and they don’t mention that the temp is 12°C above average, and that it’s all DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE. (I don’t love it.) liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/443...

actually so angry about that Russian oil decision that I can't even really bear to feel my own fury, it's so all-encompassing that I can only glance at it from an angle, once in a while, then think about something else

🔥 Just launched now… New European Movement campaign …to break Starmer’s 3 red lines of Single Market, Customs Union, Free Movement If Starmer wants “Britain at the heart of Europe” then this is what he must do. Now is the time to pile on the pressure. See —> www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/wWq5QejW

It's happening. #Strawhouse #Strawbuilding in Denmark. Why? Because it is superior + the government agreed to set science based limits on whole life carbon emissions. Including #embodiedcarbon. Foto: tegnestuen lokal www.tegnestuenlokal.dk/faelledby-bi...

Dear @bbcnews.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social 🔔This is all across local news. The government hasn't yet briefed the public on the severe threats from climate change and nature loss, so civil society is taking matters into its own hands. Articles from just last 10 days👇

Just embarrassing to see the Lib Dems limit themselves to demanding a customs union. Would take years to negotiate and achieve very little. Party policy currently serving to restrain European demands rather than encourage them.

Getting out the vote for super hard working Green candidates in Newcastle #VoteGreen

“Wake up before the wheels come off” These elections are a test for Labour and the Tories - but they're also a test for first past the post. And one it looks likely to fail... In a multi-party electoral landscape, is it time to start talking seriously about PR? www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

📢 Polling stations are now open! 📢 Want to replace the failing Labour Party and defeat the hateful message of Reform? Get yourself down to your local polling station and vote Green today! Every vote counts. Make sure your voice is heard 💚 Don’t forget your Photo ID for voting in England!

If, like me, you are a muppet who managed to lose her polling card and want to check where to vote, this website is useful. (Remember: while you need ID to vote in England, you DON’T need to bring your polling card, that’s purely for convenience). wheredoivote.co.uk

”Paris's school streets are effectively sculpting out instant parks in the locations where they'll provide immense public health benefits to the city's most vulnerable populations. But it's true, they really stand for something else entirely: a city brave enough to prioritize children.”

Statement from Newcastle Green Party

About my fondness for TV with subtitles. open.substack.com/pub/rostaylo...

🌱 We will be running two 1-day in-person training days on designing and building with EcoCocon straw wall system, a mix of theory and practice: 5th August Carlisle 19th August NSBRC Swindon If you're an architect, homeowner or a builder seriously interested in joining, please let me know.

Rejoin is coming: Talk of the customs union and single market is a distraction. Only full membership offers a compelling vision of Britain's future iandunt.substack.com/p/rejoin-is-...

Sketching instead of scrolling while waiting for a meeting

It’s official: the UK is rejoining Erasmus! 👏🇪🇺

I’m standing for @nclgreenparty.bsky.social.

This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person

This seems to be going under the radar and really shouldn’t be. It’s terrifying. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Haha this is very validating

An interactive map to help you find a screening near you of our new film hosted by @chrisgpackham.bsky.social… The People’s Emergency Briefing, launching tomorrow. www.nebriefing.org/screening-map #PEBuk #NationalEmergencyBriefing

1/7 I’m a Green Party councillor for City Ward #Sheffield. It’s a densely populated urban ward. I’m going to talk about digital advertising screens, which doesn’t sound exciting, but please bear with me. I want to explain why I spend time objecting to so many of these. Since 2023, I’ve …

Let's not be #FossilFools and distract from drive for #Renewables, our energy future. " Even in the most optimistic scenario, and assuming none of its gas is exported, Jackdaw would provide just 2% of UK demand over its nine- to 12-year lifetime.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As someone that works a four day week, I cannot recommend it enough. If AI is going to make us all so much more efficient, having a better work-life balance is surely the next logical step. fortune.com/article/is-a...

We are in our second fossil energy crisis in less than half a decade. The political discussion is about how we can extract more fossil fuels, encouraging our consumption of them, and avoiding any discussion about reduced use. We are just not serious people.

Where is the U.K. equivalent of this??:

If this is an AI-made April Fool’s joke, it is *incredibly* cruel. #Rejoin

NEW PODCAST: I've heard a lot about Llama Croft over the last year or so, but I finally got to visit. Janna and Seb Laan Lomas are my guests. www.houseplanninghelp.com/398 #Passivhaus #PassiveHouse #SelfBuild #NaturalMaterials

"The scheme seen as a testbed for rolling out community-led housing at scale across the south." Hill to build UK’s first large-scale dual cohousing build | Construction Enquirer News share.google/e7GqiwVb1hLO...

Alternative advice: If you can cycle to work / schools / shops but don’t, start looking at what routes would feel safest. If you don’t have a bike, look at buying one, maybe via the Cycle to Work scheme. news.sky.com/story/politi...

HISTORIC HEAT WAVE IN AUSTRALIA Insane Minimum 32.2C at Port Hedland yesterday. It's the hottest night ever recorded in the whole Southern Hemisphere this time of the year. April will start smashing thousands of records in Australia,South America and South Africa. Mind blowing.

Fun fact (real fun this time): If we set science based sustainable building standards CO2 / resource limits, we’ll be building and reftrofitting affordable, healthy, super-efficient and safe straw-wood-clay houses.

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.

"Achieving the UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock and bring health and economic benefits while insulating the country against future costs, the government’s climate advisers have forecast." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If I were Ed Miliband and gas prices open very strongly tomorrow morning (likely they will) then I would get a proper media blitz going. The line of protecting the economy from foreign energy conflicts works really well during foreign energy conflicts.

Seriously, who designed this. Own up.

If your priority is stopping Reform you need to know who to vote for to do it. This site has the answer. 👇🏻

Doesn’t seem to be being noted overly widely, but today is Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s birthday. That’s either terrible luck for him, or some pretty incredible trolling by the local police.

I strikes me that instead of building energy hungry data centres for AI, we could be building local factories to produce straw panels and actually help solve the climate crisis

Can confirm that this book is absolutely worth the full price, let alone with the discount.

I’d wager even the ducks are getting weary of this now.