Plastic Unfantastic Pollution from this illegitimate child of the fossil fuel industry looks like it's reducing photosynthesis by 12%. Nothing to see here. Move on. www.theguardian.com/environment/....

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus Happy St.Davids day to friends and fellow citizens of this fragile world. David was born on the coast near the tiny jewel of a city that bears his name, his last words were 'do the little things you remember me by. Good advice.

Germany’s likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, assured his support to Zelenskyy, saying: “We must never confuse the aggressor and the victim in this terrible war.” (Guardian)

📣 New guide! Climate Outreach, with support from @green-alliance.org.uk conducted interviews with leading experts, from policy to journalism, campaigns to research, to get their insight on the most important comms challenges & opportunities for 2025 and beyond: climateoutreach.org/reports/what... ‎

Welcome to #EduSky 🍎 a communuty for educators! Check out the list: tinyurl.com/EduSky Join the list: tinyurl.com/EduSkyForm Pin the feed: tinyurl.com/EduSkyFeed ⬇️

The Gift of Uncertainty // What are the skills, mindsets and connections we need to help young people to grow so they can build regenerative futures at a time of greater uncertainty than the world has seen for 75 years? Do share your top three here. #EduSky #climate #nature

Exporting Extinction // Seek to understand the footprints and negative externalities of the products and services that you take for granted. Many of them are likely to have a dark side impact that's not on the label. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

H5N1 Bird Flu Spreads Rapidly Through California Dairy Herds The USDA has confirmed that five more dairy herds in California are infected, bringing the total number to 732. As of now, 74% of the state's dairy herds have tested positive for the virus.

Regulation isn't fit for purpose. I spent six years on the board of an environmental regulator. It's clear that even if every business adhered to every pice of legislation, nature and communities would die, just more slowly. We need regs that inescapably drive regeneration, not elimination.

My friend/colleague Andrew Boswell is right. Starmer is adopting the very worst HardRight trope: It’s outrageous of Starmer to say that Andrew is doing this for himself! He doesn’t do all this dangerous, exhausting, expensive work for selfish reasons!! He does it for Nature & our children’s future.

Let's hope CAN can. Today the UK government will hear the second reading of the Climate & Nature Bill. It's landmark proposal places legal responsibility on government to act in line with science, not easy votes. Fingers crossed for nature. & future gen. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

You can say, “gravity isn’t real,” but if you step off the cliff, you’re still going down. And if you convince other people it’s not real, you are responsible for what happens if they make decisions based on the information you withheld.

Topical Word of the Day...

Going the wrong way fast. Time to turn around.

"perhaps spending potentially trillions to get somewhere that looks like Earth’s most boring disused quarry is the value proposition that Americans concerned over inflated food prices have been looking for" Marina Hyde hit nail on head in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

PFAS News - Not News // Those with eyes open have known for years that there's an insidious tide of damaging chemicals seeping into the bodies of life on earth. Companies like 3M make them, profit from them, and walk away. Change is coming. Better late than never.

On CBC last night, I spelt out the moral case to keep on trying, however hard it might be. Defending the living planet is not an option we can abandon. Ultimately, it is all that counts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX2V...

“I feel liberated,” said a top banker. “We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled . . . it’s a new dawn.” Business in the age of Trump. Sounds liberating. www.ft.com/content/cf87...

Faster = better. When it comes to action on climate, and reducing negative impacts, that is.

Adapt or Die // Doing less of the wrong thing isn't going to be enough as our safe ground shrinks around us. Useful provocation and call to action from @rupertread.bsky.social to make adaptation part of the conversation in every organisation, every day. www.terrainfirma.co.uk/adapt-or-die...

Safety always has, and always will, depends on species' ability respond to pattern change. Homo saps is bottom of the class on that. How well we manage to stick around depends on our ability to change that...

Earth has entered ‘a new era’ with its hottest year on record and its first calendar year 1.5C warmer than the pre-industrial period. About 1.3C of the 1.5C is due to climate change, so let's not get *too* hung-up on puzzles like clouds, shipping fuels etc! Story👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Getting warmer together: not good news // theconversation.com/many-species...

It's hard to imagine a more brutal illustration of climate injustice and a failed society than indentured teenage slaves being used to protect the homes of wealthy Americans.

"...it is time for #climate activists and thought-leaders to let go of fantasies of achieving decarbonisation, directly. Instead, we need to pivot hard towards climate adaptation." New in the @bylinetimes.bluesky.social 📰 bylinetimes.com/2025/01/08/z...

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A world without facts... With Zuckerberg and Musk running amok over truth, it feels more important than ever that locally-grounded stories, created and verified by citizens, might be the only way we make sense of this unravelled mess.

How the world is already adapting to climate change - @carbonbrief.org maps and describes the most comprehensive assessment to date of the scientific literature on climate adaptation By @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org and @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social interactive.carbonbrief.org/climate-adap...

Wales' Wellbeing of Future Generations Act: 10 years on. Excellent summary here on some of the key learning from the first decade of implementing the Future Gen legislation in Wales. Far more work is needed to help ctties and leaders u'stand the severity of disruption headed their way.

Pets no longer eat animal products // Imagine the benefit that could make for ecosystems we depend on, and the future generations of all species. How much would your / our thinking needed to shift for it to happen. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @donnachadhmc.bsky.social

🚨 When we fight, we win! I've put together a thread giving a quick run down of some of the #climate movement's hard won victories from 2024 to inspire us for the year ahead! 🧵 #ClimateActionNow #EndFossilFuels

Burn, baby burn // Most people's pensions are invested in making the world that they and their children are going to live worse, not better. Weird eh. Watch and share this to anyone who hasn't acted on that insight yet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kabk...

🚨milestone hit🚨 (spoiler alert: it’s bad news)

Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass? By @josiah.writes.news bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...

China’s war on sand

#EnergySky #GreenSky #ClimateSky Have a watch/listen: news.wickedproblems.uk/p/the-apocal...

Fancy less chemicals in your food? Read on. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Salt in your food? Only 10% of the world's agricultural land is affected by salinity. Can't think that would be a problem for food businesses, government, or anyone else, to worry about for another 10 years or so... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Growing Sharks //

Our food system needs an overhaul. Farmers can’t afford to produce food & many people can’t afford to buy it, while fortunes are accumulated by commodity & food processing companies, who promote unhealthy diets to poor people that makes them sick & which costs the NHS billions. Big change is needed.

PE's Corporate Plunder // Next up on my listening list. www.libraryofmistakes.com/podcasts/how...

Earth’s last mass extinction at the of the Cretaceous is marked in the fossil record with traces of iridium, following a collision with a huge asteroid. The gathering present mass extinction might be marked millions of years hence by plastic, which is now everywhere. apnews.com/article/plas...

This is Metsokangas elementary school in the far suburbs of Oulu . It was -31°C in the morning (-40° windchill). What you see here is just 1 of the 4 parking lots for students. It's not about the cold, it's the safe infrastructure & excellent maintenance. No rocket science. #MeanwhileInOulu #Oulu 1/

Know your externalities // In accounting, an externality is a cost (negative) or benefit (positive) that's not on the price of a product. The UK food system causes £268 billion of damage each year that society, not the food sector, pays for. Crazy days. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Thousands of chemicals from food packaging found in humans, a major study reveals news.mongabay.com/2024/11/thou...

Plastic unfantastic

Who'd have thought? Your bike, unlike your car, is not watching you.

I think a lot about David Byrne showing up to Met Gala last year on his bike. We need to normalize doing this, and have secure bike parking everywhere.