WeCycle www.wecycle-melbourne.com won the City of Darebin Sustainability Award 2025 [I am holding it]. Recognition of years of supplying 1000s of free bikes to people in need. The Shed in Batman Park is also a player, leased from Council.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... @susanjb7.bsky.social

Chakori S & Batterbury SPJ (2025) Degrowth urban transitions: a tool library case study in Australia. Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy 4(2), 428-445. doi.org/10.3138/jccp...

E-bikes: www.9news.com.au/national/ebi... if half of those fined or stopped had oversized engines, what does this say about the restriction on having a 250w motor and such an incredibly low speed limit of 25 km per hour assisted? Won't work in country with a good road network & big distances.

reneweconomy.com.au/woodside-gas... Great article by colleagues, for Australian readers. Government has issued major climate plans today, but at the same time, has approved a massive Woodside gas project expansion in NW Australia. Hypocritical.

An automated feed of all our articles and reviews journals.antropologi.info/author/journ...

It’s TACO time👇 ‘In April this year, China installed more solar power than Australia has in all its history. In one month.’ #Energy www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

An article tiny.cc on ebikes in VIC Australia in @theageaustralia.bsky.social, where there is an effort to ban them on trains [as happened in the UK, v frustrating] because we had one battery fire, only allowed comments for few hours while I was out. So here are mine @theageaustralia.bsky.social

Matthias presenting our book in New Caledonia-Kanaky, in the context of mining problems unc.nc/conference-p...

Brief thoughts on the so-called historic deal just struck for New Caledonian Kanaky sovereignty within the French state. It is very early days indeed mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/OLhhR3...

Please support WeCycle, my weekend volunteer job. You can be anonymous if you want but its a non-controversial local issue. Thanks. www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

Hugh Grant's 'pet peeves' (eg leafblowers) were so good that I wrote some of my own on my recent visit to the UK. Changing stock in M&S Food obviously being the standout, and loss of BBC Sounds. simonbatterbury.wordpress.com/2025/05/12/c...

#caturday #cats This is a famous cat that always sleeps on the best chairs in La Recyclerie cafe in the 18th arondissement of Paris, surrounded by customers and noise. Encountered last week

This is hilarious if you follow events in New Caledonia. Valls is a rep of Macron's trying to sort out the mess of governance in NC, a territory where Melanesians are mostly seeking independence from France @newcaledonia.bsky.social

Special Section, 'Journal of Political Ecology': 'Indigenous Voices: Self-determination in mine site transitions and mine closure governance across nations', edited by Sarah Holcombe, Rebecca Hall and Arn Keeling [1/6] Rather special because all papers authored with Indigenous elders

Ignore Trump for a moment, and all the other calamities going on around the world. Climate change is still the biggest threat to us all, and we are in danger of ignoring it. youtu.be/6F21B2FdU_w?...

Kowasch, M., Batterbury, S.P.J., Baumann, C. et al. 2025 Not in my backyard? Prospects, problems and perceptions of lithium extraction in Austria. Energ Sustain Soc 15, 21 doi.org/10.1186/s137... Article from research project on political geology and CRM miningbeyondhotair.org

Publishing Activism within/without a Toxic University works.hcommons.org/records/jg2a...

Tornel, C., (2025) “Review of Lang et al. (Eds.). 2024. The geopolitics of green colonialism: Global justice and ecosocial transitions”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1). journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/...

Sam Staddon, Floriane Clement & Bimbika Sijapati Basnett (eds.). 2023. "Political ecology of professional practice: plurality and possibilities in environmental governance", Special Section of the Journal of Political Ecology 30, 32.

Sullivan KM & S Randle (eds) 2024. Water in short supply. Spec Section, J of Political Ecology, 31 972-1123 @pollenetwork.bsky.social @saydrandle.bsky.social Sullivan KM 2024 Governing water in the US West: Introduction to 'Water in short supply' Spec Section. J of Political Ecology 31 972-993.

Rasmussen, M. B. & Lund, C., (2025) “Scales of dispossession: Institutionalizing resource access at the frontier”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 5661. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social

Lyall, A. Ortiz, M. Billo, E. 2025 Greenwashing at Elsevier: A political ecology of corporate publishing. Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 6276. doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social @researcheracad.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social Giving one extra reason not to publish there

Dunlap, A. & Sovacool, B. K., (2025) “"It's kind of just another factory:" A political ecology of solar panel manufacturing in Perrysburg, Ohio”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 6222. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social #solarpower #renewableenergy

Torres-Alruiz, M. D. & Gómez-Liendo, M. J., (2025) “ust conservation? Knowing Mapuche perspectives on environmental justice at Villarrica National Park, Chile”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 5728. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social

Classens, M., (2025) “Review of Ellingson, Stephen. 2024. Planting with purpose: How farmers create a resilient food landscape.”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1). 7243 journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/...

Cederlöf, G., (2025) “Review of Helmcke, Cornelia. 2023. Engineering reality: The politics of environmental impact assessments and the just energy transition in Colombia”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 6177. journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/...

Hernández, E. D., (2025) “Reseña del libro de Castillo Oropeza and D. Roca-Servat (Coords.). 2024. Ecología política, sufrimiento socioambiental y acción política”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 6405. journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/... @pollenetwork.bsky.social

Batterbury, SPJ, Uxo, C., Abord de Chatillon, M., Nurse, S. 2025. Community bike workshops in Australia: increasing demand for cycling through mutual aid. Transactions on Transport Sciences 2/2025 Open Access doi.org/10.5507/tots... @cyclingnews.com

Rangan, Haripriya & Carney, Judy, (2025) “Towards a buoyant political ecology: Rethinking marginalization for coastal climate change adaptation in the tropics”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 5860. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... [ rolling out the big authors!]

doi.org/10.5281/zeno... @bike.community @cyclingnews.com

The Mining Beyond Hot Air project based from Vienna miningbeyondhotair.org releases new blogs and papers monthly. eg 6 key questions on crit minerals miningbeyondhotair.org/2024/07/09/s... & short article we wrote, english et en français on New Caledonia and nickel. Also much about Sámi territories