@luketryl.bsky.social - We are the country that CAN on decarbonisation. Emissions have halved. The world didn't end. We can do this and it's great.

@pollybillington.bsky.social 'bats and newts are not the enemy'. The planning system isn't working for nature or affordable decent housing supply.

@elpinchbeck.bsky.social sums it up. The most important things you can do are, when you replace your boiler or your car, go electric. It's cheaper and better. @octopus.energy @nigelbanksoeg.bsky.social

@nigelbanksoeg.bsky.social Now doing gigs in front of 3000 people. Following warm up act @michaelshanksmp.co.uk and @octopus.energy CEO Greg Jackson. 😊

We want to make sure Rachel Reeves MP sees some important % and ££s: 🇬🇧 80% of UK millionaires support a 2% tax on wealth over £10m 🇬🇧 81% think it’s patriotic to pay their fair share We’re proud to pay and here to stay #taxthesuperrich #taxwealthnotwork

The UK govt softened tax reforms on the superrich because of a widely reported “exodus” of millionaires fleeing the UK. Our new study w/ @patmillsuk.bsky.social & @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social shows that the "exodus" was a complete fiction. #BogusExodus #TaxTheSuperRich taxjustice.net/press/millio...

New comment piece for OnLondon by Chris Brown. Despite having the ear of local #Labour politicians, a group of long-established residents in Bermondsey feel their voices go unheard amid rapid local development activity: www.onlondon.co.uk/chris-brown-.... #London #bermondsey #planning

One of my local heroes (and his dad!). 😊

What happens when landowners and developers don't listen.

This is important. @southwarkls.bsky.social (Cycleway 14 closure) @treesforbermondsey.bsky.social (chopping down one of Ada Salter's trees of heaven & more), @snsprimary.bsky.social (thousands of polluting HGVs going past the school), @gstt-nhs.bsky.social (demolition of hospital patient car park)

I know the feeling! 😔🤔

@se1.news Worrying #SE1 planning situation? www.linkedin.com/posts/welove...

@treesforbermondsey.bsky.social Can you help save this beautiful healthy historic mature TPO protected Snowsfields SE1 Plane tree from the Guinness Partnership axe? @snsprimary.bsky.social planning.southwark.gov.uk/online-appli...

Brilliant film beavertrust.org/our-work/bal...

There is an alternative to Government welfare cuts - a 2% tax on wealth. There is no shortage of money here, we just need a fairer approach to tax - take more from the few not the many.

Lots of love to Great Yarmouth! 😊

Great thread...

The Times/Sunday Times often do vg data journalism. This front-page story is an example of just deciding not to do that, so lots of voices, but so little attention to what the number in the headline means www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

I'd forgotten the lyrics of this 1969 environmental song. It all feels so relevant apart from the dates. They should be starting at 2025 and finishing 'one hundred years' from now to align with what's happened in the last 55 years. In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus) g.co/kgs/Gc2WVjA

Great thread. Solutions do exist for London's terraced homes. If local authorities choose to take them. Office for Zero Emission Vehicles advice to local authorities on cross pavement charging can't come quick enough. And needs to be effective. Radical Modernisation www.linkedin.com/pulse/radica...

@richardjmurphy.bsky.social finishes this article with "The other is a wholly new approach to economics. I see very little in between these two positions. The old narratives are dead. We are waiting for the new to be born." The new narrative is already here. doughnuteconomics.org/about-doughn...

This will be particularly interesting to spatial planners. Doughnut Economics - providing society's needs within the planet's limits - should b the purpose of the English National Planning Policy Framework. It isn't. Successive UK Governments have promoted GDP growth that fails on both objectives.

Great to listen to Emily Hickson on @cop29.bsky.social and the Government's approach to Climate @teamlondonbridge.bsky.social Christmas, Climate & Cake! @southwarklabour.bsky.social

I was pleased to give evidence on behalf of @se1solar.bsky.social for Southwark Council's climate emergency motion. SE1solar is working with Southwark to generate energy and improve efficiency of council estates. Motion: moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/ieListDocume...

A great example of applying #DoughnutEconomics at city scale.

SE1 Solar gave evidence to the @lb-southwark.bsky.social assembly tonight on climate. Every councillor (from both parties) that spoke understood the Climate Breakdown & the need for action. It was life affirming. But all voted on party lines. If this isn't a Labour/LibDem cross-party issue, what is?

Way beyond time UK Government (DESNZ) got real about stopping subsidising Drax and recognises the energy security, climate and nature risks it poses.