People who aren't in Minnesota might not know that if you drive or walk past pretty much any school, there's going to be a group of people, parents and childless, standing guard to make sure the kids are safe from feds. It's pretty remarkable. And very disturbing. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Catch me on today's episode of @overunderpod.bsky.social w/ @carysafoko.bsky.social! Discussing Trump/Maduro/Venezuela, Keir Starmer, Shamima Begun & the AI bubble. open.spotify.com/episode/0OGx...

Disabled charity chief condemns UK government as she rejects MBE. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Tressa Burke said: "The political choices made in the UK Budget have supercharged the inequalities and unfairness disabled people face."

Job post: @foescot.bsky.social are hiring a Senior Transport Campaigner. foe.scot/jobs/

Best thing I've read on football in a while. @rorysmith.bsky.social on Ultras at Falkirk, football post-covid, and masculinity. observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "Developing countries, especially China, led the clean energy charge but richer nations including US + EU relied more than before on planet-warming fossil fuels."

In times of such extremes, hope remains as one of the important possibilities for change, a declaration that all is not lost. www.greenpeace.org/internationa... #WellbeingEconomy #ClimateCrisis #ActOnClimate

Map of 100 poems that mention, address, or center on Patrice Lumumba, written in the long aftermath of his assassination. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/b6fa... < Fascinating project by Maya Charlton

I'll be on this 👇

Interesting-looking new study from the UK finding that being hit by an SUV (as compared to a regular car) "considerably" increases the risk of death for children, and even more so for young children doi.org/10.32866/001...

Oregon transport bill includes luxury car tax: bikeportland.org/2025/06/17/e... "Oregon’s vehicle privilege tax was set at 0.5% in 2017. This amendment would raise it 1% for vehicles that sell for less than $75,000 and up to 4% for vehicles over that price."

📢🚫Disrupt the fossil fuels powering ongoing genocide and daily military violence in Palestine!

Look out for the new set of Poems on the Underground on London Underground and Overground trains for 4 weeks from June 2nd with poems by Dr. Gboyega Odubanjo, Jeongrye Choi , Po Chu-i, Mosab Abu Toha, William Shakespeare and Anna Gilmore Heezen ! Poem of the Day: Daughter by Mosab Abu Toha

"Belgium, Finland, France, Portugal and Sweden have all publicly backed the initiative put forward by Dutch Foreign Minister – whose government is considered a firm ally of Israel – in a letter to the EU’s foreign policy chief last week." www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

New wind, solar and nuclear capacity meant China’s CO2 emissions fell by 1% in the 12 months to March. China’s emissions have dipped before, but those reductions were driven by falling demand such as strict Covid lockdowns in 2022. www.bangkokpost.com/sustainabili...

An Israeli legal order on 'Area C' will consume two-thirds of the occupied West Bank. www.newarab.com/news/israel-...

This #EarthDay it's time to stand up for the world we want to see. Billionaires, oligarchs, and corporations are using their wealth to silence dissent and roll back social and environmental progress, leaving the rest of us to face the consequences of the damage they are causing. Enough is enough.

Salzburg protests against plans for a private tunnel through Kapuzinerberg hill (€40,000 for the use). www.salzburg24.at/news/salzbur...

Greenpeace UK co-director Will McCallum explains why they turned the US embassy pond red. The UK and US must STOP all arm sales to Israel.

Did you know? A tax on the super-rich could be a game changer in funding the transition to sustainable heating and cooling for homes. 🏠🌍💡 Let’s dive into how this could unlock a green future for all. 👇 #TaxTheSuperRich Read more: greenpeace.at/uploads/2025...

Very early days but looks like the policy of doubling council tax on second homes in Cornwall is working www.bbc.com/news/article...

"If you brought in a wealth tax of just 2% on people with assets of over £10m that would raise £24 billion a year" – @hackneyabbott.bsky.social We couldn't agree more.

www.bbc.com/news/article... Really good on the environmental disaster of increasing SUV sales. But misses the danger to other road users, esp children, the higher fatality rate, the entitlement to ever more public space.

Affordable fares alone aren't enough. @gavinthomson.bsky.social reminds us that sustainable public transport requires safe networks, expanded routes, and greener vehicles. 🚍🌱 In addition, of their article on SLOCAT's Website, dive in & listen to their podcast🎧👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pML0...

How a Chinese battery factory sparked a political meltdown in a small Michigan town. restofworld.org/2025/gotion-... by @violazhou.bsky.social.

fun fact: Eddie's description of the UK economy as "the people at the top are having a disco" inspired this weird and beloved placard.

It's me, so it is.

Greenpeace India campaigned for, and helped win, free bus travel for women in Delhi a few years ago. This podcast ⬇️ looks at the impact of the policy.

🚌 Transportation costs or safety concerns can act as barriers, limiting women’s mobility and reinforcing gender inequality. ⁣ ⁣ Delhi’s scheme to provide free bus travel for women challenged those barriers.⁣ 🎧 Listen to the full episode of the latest #SystemShift podcast act.gp/43jrQ1D

Or you might phrase this as ‘Israel breaks ceasefire agreement’.

Terrific resignation letter by Anneliese Dodds, this.

So much in this report from Greenpeace MENA, inc how Europe is externalising the climate costs of its energy consumption and how 'green hydrogen' represents a continuation of colonial extractivism. www.greenpeace.org/mena/en/beyo...

'China's clean energy investments nearing scale of global fossil investments, researchers find.' www.reuters.com/world/china/... 6.8 trillion yuan ($940 billion) in clean energy in 2024 vs $1.12 trillion in global investment in fossil fuels - @carbonbrief.org

"During my reporting, the phrase neocolonial was never far from conversation." Great long read tracing the opposition to a huge lithium mine in Serbia. www.newstatesman.com/internationa.... | @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING The #TaxTheSuperRich movement is going strong! Yesterday Greenpeace international activists blocked the heliport for the #WEF25 in #Davos, today they had a clear message to send INSIDE the conference center! >> act.gp/taxthesuperrich

New Greenpeace report showing that if a #GlobalWealthTax is implemented, revenues could be up to €185bn in Europe alone to fund solutions for people and the planet. www.greenpeace.org/static/plane...

A great read this. Comprehensive view of the data, the politics, the sectoral challenges. "In short, an end to China’s oil boom would be a tectonic shift that is unlikely to be reversed, according to analysts." www.ft.com/content/341f...

Teenage girls as young as 13 sold for grass to feed cattle amid droughts in Kenya’s Maasai areas, providing a frightening insight into the human toll of climate change

Aviation industry plans for growth ‘irreconcilable’ with Europe’s climate goals www.transportenvironment.org/articles/avi... | @transenv.bsky.social

Spanish Government announces a Climate ticket. elpais.com/clima-y-medi... It will bring together complex systems, many providers, municipalities etc, to provide a single ticket. Cost tbc.

... that eerie arctic song as one by one the muzzles lift and open in the dark, and the dark is long. — ‘Wolf’ by Edwin Morgan, published in Virtual and Other Realities (Carcanet, 1997) 🐺

Important read on illegal pushbacks at the Lithuania-Belarus border and how measures to counteract the ”instrumentalisation” of asylum seekers punish the victims of persecution instead of the perpetrators. euobserver.com/migration/ar...

Brilliant, deeply reported piece by @rachelaviv.bsky.social about the horrible revelations about Alice Munro — & yes, this is a v different piece than the one that was in the NYTMag, which was largely an analysis of how the story played out in her writing www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

if you haven't read this article on the Pelicot trial, you must. "What was the testimony of her body?" Sleeping Women' by Sophie Smith: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

That is some graph on bus usage outside London after deregulation on.ft.com/49PfLlV

Now online: ep 28, with Manja Petrovska On the EU-IOM border regime in the Balkans as a contemporary form of imperialism. And on the weapons companies that benefit from displacement and global apartheid, as they do from the ongoing genocide in Gaza🍉

'Swiss voters say no to bigger motorways and easier evictions in referendum.' www.euronews.com/my-europe/20... More lanes means more cars and more journeys, requiring more lanes. It's a money pit, not a solution.

Interesting-looking new study finding that relying too much on cars for your daily mobility reduces life satisfaction doi.org/10.1016/j.tb...