Australia’s heatwaves are getting deadlier – and renters are paying the price | Maiy Azize #Climate

”The ocean plays a critical role in modulating the Earth’s climate system and over the last 50 years it has taken up over 89% of the excess energy due to greenhouse warming.” Thank the world ocean every time you see it, it balanced most of the heat we produced. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Climate change is state violence too … these are not two separate emergencies competing for attention, but one story unfolding on different timelines.”

Interrupted geoengineering could cost us *more* by 2100 than doing nothing at all, detailed econ modeling shows: High emissions: $868 billion Solar geoengineering: $393 billion Termination shock: $1 trillion www.newscientist.com/article/2513...

Governments are allowing the super-rich to dominate media and social media companies. Billionaires own more than half the world’s largest media companies and all the main social media companies. Billionaire wealth jumps three times faster in 2025 to highest peak ever www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...

On #InternationalDayOfCleanEnergy, Agnes Dasewicz explains that translating the clean-energy transition’s current momentum into lasting gains demands investment in critical infrastructure that fuels job creation and supports sustainable growth. bit.ly/4k3zF1J

”The reality is that relying so heavily on fossil fuels — whether from Russia or elsewhere — can’t give us the energy security and prosperity we need. It leaves us incredibly vulnerable to international market volatility and pressure from external actors.” #EU27 www.politico.eu/article/clea...

"latest [robots] are at most half as efficient as human workers, underlining the challenges in deploying them to solve labour shortages and increase productivity" > if productivity means nothing more than employing less humans, our economic models have BIG problems

"Inequality, not immigration, behind cost-of-living crisis."

"Negative gearing must go." Richard Holden

📢 Negative gearing and franking credits are more to blame for high house prices.

In Australia, 41% of EV sales are from Chinese brands. Could Canada be next to see such a surge? We talked to experts to find out. insideevs.com/features/785...

It's showing a positive effect.

"Climate change denial happens, and the planet is regarded as an endless depository of raw materials (...) there are elites and groups with clear interests who benefit from this detachment of the actual physical world, from living in an ‘offshore’ reality." It is good to belong somewhere.

China’s lithium batteries aren’t always “made in China.” Companies like BYD and CATL are building factories on nearly every continent.

Some view the architectural quirks of these spaces as a problem. But leaning into angles, nooks and sloping walls can create a transportative, cocooning eyrie ft.trib.al/VBAJMzj

Furnished accommodation company ShareSorted was found in breach of their obligations related to at least two properties, but a lack of regulation allows them to continue to operate.

The 2026 Australian of the Year awards are announced during a ceremony in Canberra, honouring those who have served their communities and made change across society.

Social housing has two different values- open market value, and social housing value (what another housing association might buy it for, keeping it as social housing), and this is much lower. Neither RTB nor stock transfer can realise full market value, and RPs aren't free to sell on open market.

In Somerset, I found glorious proof that the UK can build great council houses. So what is holding us back? | John Harris

Downward trend in the number of social housing units in Germany. www.dena.de/fileadmin/de...

The hard truth about AI at work? It won’t tell you ft.trib.al/7lfflnH | opinion

"Social media was supposed to be a democratising force. But social platforms have given a handful of individuals more control over public discourse than any media executives in history." Jay Graber @bsky.app via @financialtimes.com

The average age of purchasing your first home is increasing as economists say politicians continue to favour the current home owner.

Seven years after skewering the Davos elite, Rutger Bregman discusses populism, the backlash to his Trump remarks, and why ideals mean little without strength with Mishal Husain in this weekend's interview: bloom.bg/4qJm6am 📷️: Jose Sarmento Matos/Bloomberg

For every $1 spent protecting nature, $30 goes to destroying it - @unep.org report calls for major shift towards solutions that help the natural world – and support the economy at the same time news.un.org/en/story/202...

“The findings reveal a clear public preference for outward expansion over upward growth... for many, the traditional house remains the aspirational ideal for family life.” @ipsosgroup.bsky.social

“The housing market has become completely detached from the reality of people’s incomes.” @neweconomics.bsky.social

"concrete – apparently the second most-used material on the planet after water, the stuff of our cracked roads and gum-stained sidewalks – becomes both a symbol of decay and a metaphor for hardscrabble, imperfect change." @adrianhorton.bsky.social

“I think awareness of the [SFDR] Article categories, especially among retail investors, is close to zero. It does suggest that the industry/regulator should do more to make people aware of the meaning of the categories, otherwise it’s just another massive regulatory tick-box exercise.” Andrew Clare

This is an important thread. We are spending most of our attention and public discourse on comparatively meaningless issues.

Brian Eno: anyone who'd leave the UK because they have to pay a bit more tax arent the least community minded Lord Bethell: "but they are the wealth creators" "They're not the wealth creators. The wealth creators are the people who make things.. who keep society running" Well said Brian!

🚨 NEW STUDY: As Australia prepares for another heatwave, our latest study found the early January heatwave which hit SE Australia was made 5x more likely due to climate change. What was once a relatively rare 1-in-25-year event is now expected about every 5 years. 🧵 1/6

An interesting insight here into one of the backbench Labour MPs who has been focusing on how the government's been delivering on homelessness, or in her words how government can "get our shit together" www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/paul...

👩‍🌾 Where do Brits stand when it comes to valuing the farming community? Hayden Banks, our Advocacy Manager, explores the challenges that our farmers are up against, and how these are met with empathy across the nation. 👉 Read the blog: climateoutreach.org/new-research...

Sadly suppressing such a devastating report doesn’t make the risks go away - it just makes them even harder to deal with. Facing up to the truth is the first step to coping with it - it’s beyond scandalous that ministers tried to prevent this. They need to act - and fast

Advance notice of 2 events I've organised at #CAWS26 on 10 March 14.00-17.00 at UTS with cohost @iclei.org Building to zero: making sustainability 'normal' in the built environment 1. Follow the money: investment + insurance

The Sydney Fish Market is Australia’s most ambitious new piece of infrastructure – courtesy of architects 3XN GXN among a wider team of collaborators www.wallpaper.com/architecture...

San Francisco-based studio Chroma transforms a traditional hacienda into a vibrant family home that celebrates creativity and the landscape. ‘It’s very much indoor-outdoor living' www.wallpaper.com/design-inter...

AI is replacing tasks we have grown reluctant to do ourselves – thinking, writing, creating, analysing.

US courts have cleared offshore wind projects to continue, pushing back against efforts to halt them on national security grounds. A reminder of how politicising energy infrastructure creates costly and unnecessary uncertainty when power demand is rising fast.

‘Luigi Ghirri: Felicità’ is an important show of the Italian photographer’s work at Thomas Dane Gallery (23 January to 11 April 2026) www.wallpaper.com/art/photogra...

Trump's mortgage-backed bond purchases not moving needle on housing costs reut.rs/466m6so

In 2025, wind and solar electricity production in Europe surpassed that of fossil fuels

Electrification skeptics often argue that switching from gas to heat pumps doesn’t make sense when most of our power comes from fossil fuels anyway. @urbangreencouncil.bsky.social ran the numbers and found that heat pumps almost always do cut pollution, even in heavily gas-reliant NYC.

For many employees, flexibility is no longer a nice-to-have but a fundamental need. Yet many requests are still turned down. 👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/how-to-...

NEW: I tracked all Chinese lithium battery factories announced or built in the past decade 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 China's borders. The truth is, companies like CATL & BYD are so technologically advanced that there's little international competition. European and Asian countries are welcoming them with open arms.

Australia’s worst heatwave since black summer made five times more likely by global heating, analysis suggests www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A positive step for industrial decarbonisation: Rondo Energy and Covestro are building a 100 MWh heat battery in Germany, showing how surplus renewable electricity can be turned into clean industrial heat. interestingengineering.com/energy/rondo...

NEW – Guest post: 10 key climate science ‘insights’ from 2025 | @krisebi.bsky.social and Prof Sabine Fuss Read here: buff.ly/RuEa0Nl