We’re delighted to announce ‘Rewilding East London’ - a new species recovery project to reintroduce white storks and beavers to East London! Delivered in partnership with London Borough of Barking & Dagenham supported by the Mayor’s of London's Green Roots Fund. @london.gov.uk #GreenRoots

Above the roar of traffic, the rumble of the tube and the juddering construction noise of a towering new data centre in Dagenham, east #London, will soon rise a beautiful and unlikely melody: the bill-clattering of white storks. #goodnews www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thank you to @carolinevoadenmp.bsky.social for pushing for Government to consider a televised emergency briefing on the #climate and #nature crisis. The public have a right to know. Sign the open letter: www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-... Now at over 36,000 signatories. #TimeToStepUp #NEB2025

Brave climate action for the majority starts with being real about the risks we face & choosing the steps that make us SAFER. Our short film, directed by award-winning filmmaker Guy Ducker, explores how a nation under threat once found unity, courage, and purpose, and what that could mean today.

UK EV drivers save £540 more on running costs than those in Germany. Why? Combo of smart meters + flexible tariffs is now widespread in the UK but in its infancy in Germany.

Word on the street is that there are a bunch of new folks joining Bluesky right now, so it seems like a good time to re-share my first & biggest STARTER PACK of urbanists & city-making organizations from across the world. Hope you’ll consider following the excellent accounts here. And please share!

EU carbon border tax goes easy on dirty Chinese imports, industry warns – POLITICO Europe: ‘the European Commission is considering using default formulas that EU companies say are far too generous.’

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Sheep have reduced most of the UK's uplands to bowling greens with contours where only the merest remnants of life persist. www.monbiot.com/2013/05/30/s...

The #electricity sector is now the largest energy employer, as the Age of Electricity gathers pace. Over the last five years, global employment in the electricity sector has risen by 3.9 million, representing nearly three-quarters of all energy job additions.

#goodnews about soil.

In #Iowa City, buses have been #fare-free since August 2023 and the results are impressive; ridership jumped, driving dropped by 1.8 million miles. 🚍🌍 The city council has now extended the pilot program after seeing faster boardings, fewer cars on the road. 🔄💨

In 2025, Britain had the hottest and driest spring on record, and the hottest summer, with drought conditions widespread. Production of the five staple arable crops – wheat, oats, spring and winter barley, and oilseed rape – fell by 20% compared with the 10-year average. #Climate

If the #NewYorkCity simply managed on street parking rationally — using meters where demand is high and affordable residential permits where it’s not — it could generate more than a billion dollars a year, enough to fund free #buses and improve sidewalks.

New Yorkers: read this piece, makes total sense. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...

The #EU Parliament seems determined to make idiots of themselves on behalf of the powerful food industry. If a #vegan hotdog is ruled out on the grounds that it contains no meat, the meat version should also be ruled out, as it contains no dog.

Good morning with good news: Global battery system deployment skyrocketed 38% to 156 GWh in first 10 months of 2025, compared to 2024! Global: +38% • China: +27% • Europe: +21% • North America: +21% • ROW: +242% Global BESS pipeline up 23% to 732 GWh! rhomotion.com/news/global-... #energysky

The UK’s first National Emergency Briefing on the #Climate & Nature crisis was held on the 27th November. Sign an open letter to Keir Starmer on the climate crisis. www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...

Please watch this important new video from Youtube channel “Just Have a Think”.

A Compassion in World Farming report says feeding grain to farmed animals wastes enough food to feed billions of people annually. 🌾 #grain #farming #farmanimals #factoryfarming #foodwaste

The World Health Organization recommends annual limit on fine particulate air pollution of 5ug/m3 The UK Govt Environmental Improvement Plan will align UK’s standards with EU's - 10ug/m3 by 2030 This means in some places wood-burning stoves will be restricted www.theguardian.com/environment/...

China’s shift away from diesel in the heavy truck segment is dramatic. The country sold more than 900,000 heavy trucks in 2024. Diesel’s share fell to about 57% that year. cleantechnica.com/2025/11/26/c...

When the UK's new nuclear power plant Hinkley Point C starts to produce power in 2030, its guaranteed 'strike price' will have risen to ~150 £/MWh (170 €/MWh). Average wholesale electricity prices will probably be around half of that, so that's a 50% subsidy. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/2

When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee. But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education. A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.

President Trump wants us to believe that stopping fentanyl “will let the wholesome, traditional American culture that he idealizes to flourish again,” David Herzberg writes. “As a historian of drugs, I can tell you that this argument is wrong in almost every way.”

The rise in high-fronted Selfish Urban Vehicles poses a clear and growing threat to public safety, especially for children.

I replaced my wood burning stove with an air-to-air heat pump, and can't recommend it enough.

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new. This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Gavin Newsom is far from perfect, but our climate can’t wait for perfect leaders. Gavin Newsom gave this powerful introduction at #COP30 stating that California remains committed to a renewable energy green growth economy. 💚🌎

Gasoline consumption in China, the world's biggest importer of crude #oil, peaked in 2023 and the research unit of state oil company Sinopec expects demand to fall more than 4% this year from 2024.

Since 1982, #cyclists in #Idaho have been able to treat a stop sign as a yield sign and a red light as a stop sign. Several American states (such as #Arkansas, #Colorado, and #Oregon) and countries, such as #France and #Belgium, have adopted similar regulations.

The New York Post is owned by the billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

“Starting at the end of November this year, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. This applies not only to newly constructed parking lots but also to existing ones.” South Korea (click the globe) www.asiae.co.kr/article/2025...

During his summing up, Judge Dugdale said that to find the three guilty, the jury would have had to be satisfied a conviction would be a proportionate interference in their rights to freedom of expression and protest. And the Jury said is wasn't.

The government backs Heathrow expansion — but it’s not all or most of Britain that wants to fly more. Just 3% of people take 30% of all flights. A few frequent flyers get the perks, while everyone else gets the noise, air pollution and climate chaos. #ClimateJustice #FairTravel

A philosopher on how and whether we’ll ever decide if AI has sentience.

1. It's fascinating to see, as you can from the responses to the post below, how many daft things people believe, to justify their continued meat eating. So let's examine a few of the common myths in the following thread. 🧵

#Solein is made by fermentation. #Renewable energy is used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen; the #hydrogen and CO2 from the air are fed to microbes, which multiply & create proteins, carbohydrates, & fats.

The impact of the tax on the dessert brand Gü is “massive”, says its chief executive, Emma Vass. I calculate that it will be about 2p or 3p per ramekin. [Tax £192/tonne for glass, Ramekin about 100-150g] The lady doth protest too much, methinks

Prominent Jewish figures around the world are calling on the United Nations and world leaders to impose sanctions on Israel over what they describe as “unconscionable” actions amounting to genocide in Gaza.

Meanwhile... Solar Foods explain that their 1st commercial-scale facility is now growing "the same amount of protein per day as a 300-cow dairy farm would produce milk protein... while being entirely decoupled from the demands & environmental stresses of traditional agriculture." shorturl.at/8i8Yk

Russia’s Coal Collapse, America’s failed #coal auctions, and the unstoppable rise of clean energy all tell the same story: the market has moved.

The 7 million Americans who took the streets for 'No Kings' made history, and they did something even more important They got under the skin of Donald Trump and his dictatorial regime, on a day that showed that most Americans love democracy instead My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/no-k...

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

#Cardiff is showing real vision by standing up to #SUV carspreading by making heavy vehicles pay more for parking. This common-sense policy will make our city streets safer, cleaner a fairer. #Goodnews

Drug addiction should be a health matter not a criminal one.

#Dakar #Senegal now has 121 #Electric buses power by #solar #electricity #Goodnews

AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals  You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing If they want to say that that's a Democratic priority, they're right,

In any discussion of food and farming, unless your solution can be scaled to feed 8 billion people, you shouldn't be taken seriously. Unfortunately, cottagecore fantasies that would feed only the richest consumers, leaving billions to starve, are all too common. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...

Yet another UK #cladding scandal.