😡Reason #38367 to hate fossil fuel companies… They are bankrolling the anti-trans movement. 80% of anti-trans organisations receive funding from fossil fuel companies or their billionaires. Whipping up hatred is a tactic to distract the public from action on climate change.

Gaga giving us what we need and deserve #abracadabra youtu.be/vBynw9Isr28

Makes me proud to see @peopleandplanet.bsky.social publishing another University League - still one of the most impactful campaign actions I ever did when I created the first one back in 2007. Still going strong holding UK universities to account for their eco performance & ratcheting up standards.

Industrial agriculture & ultra processed food is responsible for mass disease, 1/3 of global warming emissions, & mass destruction of nature. All while starving 2.8 billion people of access to a healthy diet. The idea that we need more of the same (but better) is deeply troubling. #Agroecology

Evidence is abundant that #agroecology can produce resilient, healthy, abundant food while protecting biodiversity, carbon, livelihoods & soil. Overcoming #hunger must be about providing access to food - not further industrialising the countryside (while BigAg profits).

OK folks. Day 2 of our @bsky.app adventure. We really want to grow and be part of a community of #foodsystems transformation thinkers, doers and supporters. Are there some good starter packs to recommend? #agroecology #food #hunger #farming #soil #climate #health

OK friends. Please go follow @ipes-food.org : it's where the real content is at #foodsystems #climate bsky.app/profile/ipes...

The FT misses the mark here. Tackling the harms of UPFs is not just about helping consumers exercise willpower to resist them. It requires government willpower to pursue stronger regulations on Big Food corporations and to counter corporate lobby power. www.ft.com/content/cf42...

And for my second ever [not tweet] let me heartily recommend this 7 part podcast series I've been working on: #FuelToFork. Exposing the hidden ingredient in our food – #FossilFuels – at every step of the food chain. Spoiler alert: #Foodsystem transformation is urgent. ipes-food.org/fuel-to-fork/

Were you part of the team that made this? If so, you guys knocked it out of the park.

Nobody ever planted a tree in this photo. It was a working gravel pit 30 years ago. We need to get over our obsession with planting trees and let nature do the job. The results are just SO much better. It's also about realising we are not, in fact, central to everything. 🌍

Stand with Georgia!

The language of stakeholders “reduces the relationships between people & place to financial or economic transactions that ignore the cultural & spiritual significance of the land & the non-human species to which people are inherently connected… legitimis[ing] extractive policies”

Love this! Using everyday vocabulary over specialist specific wording is not unintelligent!

“Stakeholder” always felt a fishy. An awful piece of jargon to make top-down exclusionary processes sound democratic. Now I know why. The term has colonial roots: denoting a person who drove a stake into the (indigenous) land they were claiming as their own.

it's a bad day for the international network of dictators who live in similar palaces

The blame game. Cartoon made for the European Network Against Racism. #populism #migrants #refugees

Look at this terrifying scene: happy, healthy animals running through co-located wind and solar energy farm cranking out clean energy in a grassy field. I can see now why people would rather have a field of oil pumps and pipelines instead 🤦‍♂️ #energysky #🔋 #⚡️job

Economists have written tons of papers about how Walmart achieved retail dominance through superior efficiency. They don’t even mention this let alone address it.

"Net" zero is the most self harming Pandora's box. Open by a slit and the lid gets blown off - just another excuse for more carbon "whataboutery" and foot dragging. Terrible for real #climateaction. And for human rights & communities' land rights too. #realzero

🚜🇪🇺Farmers protest demanding fair pay & an end to unfair competition. EU: slashes green standards Also EU: signs pact to import cheaper low-standard beef from Central-South America with lower standards You see the pattern?

@BEUC.bsky.social, representing 43 consumer organisations across the EU, says the #Mercosur trade deal will stimulate imports of food products from Central-South America that do not meet high EU standards 🥩

-Secret talks -Sidelining of public concerns -Undercutting European farmers & consumer standards -More trade in damaging beef, toxic (& banned!) pesticides & animal feed -Disaster for the Amazon, climate, human rights ❌This deal will be rejected by Euroepans #Mercosur

The brilliant @libertyhq.bsky.social who have spent this week in court #DefendingDemocracy have now arrived on BlueSky. If you are not yet following them & the vital & important work they do please do so www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/libert...

Excellent lobby #transparency news: the EU Commission has decided to expand disclosure of meetings between Commission officials and #lobbyists 👏 Since 2014 the top-400 Commission officials have disclosed lists of their #lobbying meetings - this will now be expanded to the top-1500 officials!

“If all results were negative, that would be the best empirical evidence that we are the winners of a cosmic lottery, inhabiting a profoundly precious planetary oasis. If scientists showed we’d hit such a massive jackpot, might we take more care with our world and one another, lest we squander it?”

I often have people telling me that if we just change the name that will get people on board. Newsflash: it won't. Better news: here's what will-helping people connect what they know (their heads) to why they care (their hearts) to what they can do (their hands)! ewn.erdc.dren.mil/podcasts/epi...

What's better: climate "change” 🆚 “crisis” 🆚 “emergency”? New work shows that subtle tweaks in language don't make a difference to green action ⬇️ 🔗 bit.ly/4gnhuko Insight with a climate policy steer: focus on something else 🔎 @jayvanbavel.bsky.social @dgoldwert.bsky.social @madalina.bsky.social

I just came across this and thought what could be better to re-post than this for my BlueSky debut?! Does it meet Rule 2? Check.

Just joined a great workshop on food & farming comms. Key takeaways: - There's huge appetite for telling better stories on food & farming. - Tap in to the narratives out there. - Let's call out exploitative corporate agriculture: that's no farming! - We can fix basic mistakes & jargon

"Just in principle, an organisation sponsored by McDonald’s, Mars, and Nestlé shouldn't be within 100 miles of children’s food education." Right? via @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/387/...

JONI MITCHELL: They took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum / And they charged the people a dollar an' a half just to see 'em TECH BRO: Sounds awesome but can we make it a monthly subscription

#FossilFuels in our food: we’ve exposed them, now what can we do about them? 🦴🍽️ 🚨 It’s the final episode of #FueltoFork where we sum up all we’ve learned from the series so far 🎙️ Tune in 🎧 fueltofork.com/episode7

🚨New report: The scramble for hydrogen in South Africa🚨 👉Read it and spread it: www.corporateeurope.org/en/ScrambleF... 🇪🇺The EU's push for #greenhydrogen will have a devastating impact on communities in South Africa 🤐 Meanwhile their voices are being ignored by EU policy makers

Record wildfires Record heat Record melt Record floods Record droughts We can't solve this crisis if we keep expanding the problem. It's time to unplug fossil fuels and #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables #go100re

Bonus interview!🌍 @_RajPatel dives deep into the hidden toll of our #fossilfuel-reliant #foodsystem. Plus: ▶️Colonialism & Columbus’s “wicked” legacy ▶️Middle-class environmentalism ▶️A care economy 🎧LISTEN #FuelToFork ipes-food.org/fuel-to-fork/

The future was Europe. RIP

And for my second ever [not tweet] let me heartily recommend this 7 part podcast series I've been working on: #FuelToFork. Exposing the hidden ingredient in our food – #FossilFuels – at every step of the food chain. Spoiler alert: #Foodsystem transformation is urgent. ipes-food.org/fuel-to-fork/

Let's make this a thing! Folks researching the political economy of food and agriculture. Let me know if you should be added to this list! go.bsky.app/GykU1LD

Yes it's happening. I've joined the hordes switching to Bluesky. Pretty happy to be - what's the verb - fluttering? flapping? blueskying