There's a really nice explanation (with clear graphics) in this @quantamagazine.bsky.social article of why most molecules in the atmosphere (oxygen & nitrogen) don't act as greenhouse gases, but a lot of the far less numerous ones (like carbon dioxide and methane) do. A great teaching aid :)

Ministers are considering a green light to expand existing North Sea oil and gas fields despite Labour’s manifesto pledge to ban new ones. @tessakhan.bsky.social says industry figures for those expansions are a "fantasy" Labour says manifesto will be met Story 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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In honor of a webby morning walk, the poem from Chapter One of my book. The poem is called Web World, I wrote it to remind us that, whether we see them or not, we move always in webs upon webs.

Number of Giant Cars has 🔼*10. Taking up space, whether driven or parked, and posing a threat to public safety. Wider cars make it harder to squeeze down the streets when they pass wider parked cars. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

It's fantastic to see that a new community-owned solar farm in East Sussex has been granted planning permission 🎉🙌 This 5MW project, set on 12 hectares of low-grade farmland, will not only generate clean, local power but also create new wildlife meadows! Fab work from Energise Sussex Coast 🤝

'Carbon capture and storage' could leak! Warning from Imperial College scientists. Carbon reduction at source is more certain. share.google/jHremBbcct6D...

Cheaper, better, faster, cleaner. #Solar and #wind outcompeting #fossilfuels 41% Global share of new clean generation. +29% Solar generation growth in 2024. +7.9% Wind generation growth in 2024. #climate ember-energy.org/focus-areas/...

🗣️ “Bring along rural communities or risk the pace of renewable roll-out,” warns the government’s transition watchdog. Community energy shows how this can be done, by working with local people, building trust, and creating projects that benefit everyone 💡

Utter madness that in the UK privatisation has torn apart train & bus networks "When we invest in mobility options that don’t eat up space, pollute our air, or drain public budgets, we create cities that are: ✅ More efficient ✅ Healthier ✅ More affordable ✅ Better for everyone" via IMM DesignLab

Excellent article from the Financial Times, looking at the costs & benefit of a whole-house retrofit. www.ft.com/content/8d6a... Anyone living in Sussex who is thinking about energy upgrades, but is unsure what will work for their home, is welcome to talk to BHESCo.

To grow fruit trees in a small space use a method perfected by gardeners in the 1600s - train trees to grow flat against walls. The method, called espalier: * maximizes exposure to sunlight * enables the trees to withstand chilly temperatures * produces more fruit apnews.com/article/gard...

Read more about this here: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18840 And here, from @michaelsavage.bsky.social in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The latest issue of Renew- the UK's long running newsletter on #renewables renewnatta.wordpress.com/.../2014/11/...

How did the 👪👩‍👧👨‍👨‍👦‍👦👨‍👨‍👦audience get to Airbourne in 2025? With an estimated CO2e footprint of between 3,500 & 4,000 tonnes. Here is our report ecoactioneb.co.uk/airbournes-c...

Number of Giant Cars has 🔼*10. Taking up space, whether driven or parked, and posing a threat to public safety. Wider cars make it harder to squeeze down the streets when they pass wider parked cars. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

With music, art, and an element of theater, climate organizers are making joy part of their toolkit. Joy “is in direct opposition to the people who want us to just give up and go home.” grist.org/fix/advocacy... #Joy #Climate #Activism #Advocacy #Music #Art #Theater #Happiness

Yeah, this quote pretty much distills down the difference between these platforms: "When I talk about fish on Bluesky, people ask me questions about fish. When I talk about fish on Twitter, people threaten to murder my family because we’re Jewish."

The "libgen" database, which Anthropic used, currently lists over 1600 titles of mine across multiple languages, so, uh, yeah

Very important point at the heart of this - there's no point telling people to use public transport without providing information on how to do so, or providing easy-to-use options. Onus should not be on the individual.

Getting to Airbourne @eastbournebc.bsky.social ✈️🛩️🚁 www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/opinion...

New study from the same authors confirms promoting e-bicycle ownership replaces car trips. “Most of the new e-bike travel is induced or replaces car usage, highlighting e-bikes’ potential to not just replace other active modes or public transport, but reduce car dependence...”

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs aren’t costs.

We're just starting to understand the #biodiversity we are fast trashing. "Cryoconite granules - frozen rainforests”. Each is a self-sustaining ecosystem, containing diverse bacteria, fungi, viruses, protists & even tiny animals like tardigrades & worms" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 8th lowest on record (JAXA data) 🧪 • about 50,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 1,040,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,950,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 2,650,000 km² below the 1980s mean More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Disappointing. We were gonna swim and the children were gonna play in the shallows. It's an astonishing state of affairs. @eastbournebc.bsky.social @ecobourne.bsky.social @your-east-sussex.bsky.social @eastbournecarnival.bsky.social

‘Do not buy these flats’: residents warn about unbearable heat inside London new-builds: Experts say many new homes being built in the UK not designed to withstand extreme summer temperatures Low-income and minority ethnic people in England most at risk from dangerously hot homes Why UK...

Tired of high bills and being ignored by your energy supplier? 💸 Too expensive 📞 Impossible to reach 😠 No personal connection #CommunityEnergy puts people before profit. ✅Locally owned ✅Fair ✅Transparent Let's talk... bhesco.co.uk/about/what-i...

Extreme heat increasingly hitting tennis players, its as if it just 'happens' in a sport sponsored by fossil fuel companies, polluting airlines and SUV makers, in this piece with no mention of the word 'climate'... 'Rinderknech collapses on court in Cincinnati heat - www.bbc.com/sport/tennis...

Amazing what can be achieved in a morning when enough people roll up their sleeves and get stuck in! One of our volunteer community reporters gives us an insight into a project on one of the allotments at Gorringe Road, #Eastbourne

An interview in the most beautiful location to write an update on this South Downs project was a treat this week #eastbourne @southdownsnp.bsky.social

We’ve just bought our first e-cargo bike! It’s an ex-Zedify trike. Our glamorous director, Jill, is showing it off. We think it’s the first ever community-owned cargo bike in #Eastbourne. We’ll use it to move donated surplus food to community larders. We’re buying another cargo bike next week!

Oops! The Times has had to issue an embarrassing correction over supposedly "sluggish" EV sales 😳 ❌ It said EV sales to private buyers fell 10.8% this yr ✅They actually GREW…by 62% Yet Times articles still claim a "big fall", "collapse" & "slide" in private EV sales 🤔 1/7

It’s great to see a rise in solar panel and heat pump installations year on year. Government grants for heat pumps seem to be helping to shift the dial away from gas heating. Now we need to see grants to cover the full cost of heat pump installation for low-income homes. www.itv.com/news/2025-08...

In the Netherlands, bike parking is treated as essential infrastructure. With more bikes than people in many Dutch cities, safe and accessible parking is key to supporting high cycling rates.

In late 2023, Amsterdam introduced a 30 km/h limit. A large number of arterials were lowered from 50 km/h, 4,500 signs installed, 140 lights reconfigured, and 200 km of markings adjusted. Aiming to improve safety, liveability and accessibility, 80% of the road network is now at this critical speed.🧵

Similar to what was found for hurricanes last year: “The study of the Los Angeles fires concluded that in addition to at least 30 deaths attributed to the fire, more than 400 other deaths could be blamed on the event, due to interruptions in health care and other factors.”

‘Unprecedented’ wildfire burns area size of Paris in southern France. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

It is often said a society’s values and aspirations are reflected in its infrastructure. And the magnificent bike bridges, highways, and parkings of the Netherlands embody a culture that invests in the physical, mental, social, and economic well-being of its people. dutchcycling.nl/knowledge/be...

More than 172,000 certified installations between January and June this year is up 37% from the same period in 2024 and a third above the previous record high start to the year, in 2023, new figures show www.itv.com/news/2025-08...

⚡🚗 EV sales are on the rise...again! In July, over 1 in 5 new cars sold were electric, showing strong demand for zero-emission vehicles ahead of the upcoming Electric Car Grant. Analysts say the figures are a clear sign: drivers are ready to ditch fossil fuels & drive into a greener future 🌱

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Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis. The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream." grist.org/climate/trou... #Climate #Ice #Arctic #Norway #IceCream #Svalbard #Heat

It was a pleasure to support Tom from Herons Folly Garden on his first appearance at last Saturday’s #Eastbourne Farmers Market. Tom runs a magnificent organic farm & orchard in Mayfield. He sells organic apple juice & cider vinegar, plus lots of organic veggies. He did a roaring trade! #GoodFood

Inner-city redcurrants 3.6 kilos from just one bush in dark corner of my Peckham garden. UK imports over 80% of our fruit! Why not grow your own no matter how small your garden or guerrilla plant! 🌳💚

Barcombe Nurseries, one of the sellers at last Saturday’s #Eastbourne Farmers Market, donated their unsold organic produce at market’s end for distribution to local community fridges who serve people in #foodinsecurity. One of our volunteers kindly used his van to collect and distribute the produce.

Some of the local Sussex produce at Saturday’s #eastbourne farmers market. Phenomenally busy, great feedback. The next one is September 6th outside the Towner Gallery 9.30am-1.30pm.

The future will be electric. You can’t hold back progress; But you can get left behind. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋 www.carbonbrief.org/iea-renewabl...

Over the course of a year, 1 SQM of solar panels can generate enough energy to power an E-Bike for 45,000+ miles (73,000+ km).