Experts are urging alternative ways of cooling, including opting for lower-emission air conditioning units and more strategic house designs.

Go vegan 🌱

A deeply concerning analysis by @richardjmurphy.bsky.social I'm not qualified to assess its merits, but it sounds as if we should at least be highly alert to the possibilities he raises. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05...

Electrification is the “most powerful tool” to protect Europeans from fossil fuel energy shocks, according to a new analysis.

Dumb and dumber...as biodiversity breakdown threatens human (yes we are animals too) food systems, let's kill other animals so we can destroy the environmental ecosystems we depend on...

Let's get it done - Independence in Europe !

This is the highest quality election site for Scotland and it's great to see the use of @registry.scot #dotScot in a smart way @ballotbox.scot Do support the work of BBS via a donation if you can.

BREAKING: First Ever Green Mayor Win 🎉 Zoë Garbett has been elected Mayor of Hackney – huge congratulations!

🚨 The polls are open! 🗳️ Everyone in Scotland can vote Scottish Greens on the peach ballot paper ✉️ If you have a postal vote you can hand it in 🪪 You DON'T need photo ID This is our chance to vote for hope over hate. To demand better. To vote Scottish Greens.

Today, vote to lower bills, protect our NHS, and put Scotland’s future in Scotland’s hands. Make it Both Votes SNP. Polls close at 10pm.

UK 🇬🇧 based friends ! Get out today and vote 🗳️ for progressive parties that will work for fairer, greener and more inclusive communities and countries. Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @snp.org or @scottishgreens.org Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @plaidcymru.bsky.social England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @greenparty.org.uk

A re-elected SNP government will introduce a Private Jet Tax and a Mansion Tax on homes worth over £1 million, making the wealthiest pay more to help support local services across Scotland. Make it #BothVotesSNP tomorrow for a government that’s on your side.

A re-elected SNP government will expand Techscaler, create local Pre-Start Centres to help turn ideas into viable businesses, and back under-represented founders and young entrepreneurs with targeted grant funding and support to scale. Make it #BothVotesSNP tomorrow.

A re-elected SNP government will expand Techscaler, create local Pre-Start Centres to help turn ideas into viable businesses, and back under-represented founders and young entrepreneurs with targeted grant funding and support to scale. Make it #BothVotesSNP on May 7

I'm Jewish. I condemn genocide. I condemn the Labour Governments role in the Genocide. The Prime Minister repeatedly conflating criticism of the Israeli Governments genocide and actual antisemitism is disgusting - and makes so many of us as Jewish people feel less safe.

‘As the domain for the international community of Scots, .scot is Europe-friendly by definition’ Our latest feature is on #dotScot & the Scottish diaspora #Europe 🙏 @thegreenplace.bsky.social for pics & quote @ceilidhman.bsky.social dot.scot/blog/2026/do...

Are you a #Scot (or someone with Scottish connections) in #Europe - then #dotScot is the right domain to make sure you are visible as part of the Scots diaspora, whether you are in the Brussels bubble or located anywhere between Kerry to Kyiv or Tromsø to Thessaloniki. dot.scot/blog/2026/do...

I’ve written a reaction to @transportenvironment.org‘s report on ticketing problems for iPaper inews.co.uk/inews-lifest... We know the scale of the problem now. The ball is in the Commission‘s court to fix it now! #CrossBorderRail #ticketing #sdbtr

A re-elected SNP government will introduce a Private Jet Tax and a Mansion Tax on homes worth over £1 million, making the wealthiest pay more to help support local services across Scotland. Make it #BothVotesSNP on May 7 for a government that’s on your side.

So if we can cut bureaucracy for defence tech - how about doing the same for health, education and clean-tech…which make the world a better place….

This on The Guardian's live blog about Vance in Hungary by @jakubkrupa.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/live/2... Yep And just imagine the uproar had von der Leyen gone to a rally and call for a Magyar / Tisza victory!

There's something just so brilliant about coal mines being directly replaced with solar farms www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/07/g...

Treating Trump as compos mentis is a choice being made by his Congressional party and administration, and therefore more reluctantly by other Nato governments too. But this appears to be clear a declaration of intent/ threat to commit war crimes by the leader of the United States of America.

Unacceptable gap !

I've just signed a petition calling on the UK government to give British businesses a better deal with Europe. Add your name: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/single-marke...

New open access article: Resilience configurations as a core element of innovation policies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Au fait, vous avez signé pour un monde sans PFAS? Enfin, modestement, on va essayer de commencer par l'Europe, vous agissez avec nous? act.greens-efa.eu/fr/pfas/

“If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves... If we become even slightly more violent, shortsighted, ignorant, and selfish than we are now, almost certainly we will have no future.” — Carl Sagan

“We have guided missiles and misguided men.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

Greens on the rise ! Hope not hate.

"It's clear that there's a rampant dumbing down in progress in which not knowing things is considered a virtue. I don't throw my hands up in despair, but I do try to indicate that it's a very serious problem." — Carl Sagan

"Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence... Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle." — Alexander Solzhenitsyn

🥵 3 years in a row of +1.5°C. 📢 We will never stop saying it: we need climate action now. ❌ We need to phase out fossil fuels. ☀️ We need 90% renewable energy by 2040 (at least). 🏡 We need to renovate houses and buildings to adapt them to the current situation.

For decades, rather than prioritising domestic investment in its technology sector, the UK has largely opted for the easier route: relying on US technology We take a look at how dangerous this is now, in a special report on national security 👇 Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

ANNOUNCEMENT: The next #REvaluation27 Conference will be held 25-26 Feb 2027 at the @hcw.ac.at, co-organised by @fteval.bsky.social with @forwit.at, @fraunhoferisi.bsky.social & @mioir.bsky.social. Save the date for THE conference for #research, #technology, #innovation policy & #evaluation!

Don’t look up….

A coalition of left parties has launched a call for signatures to force the European Commission to suspend the EU’s association agreement with Israel over Gaza.

There are going to be so many papers retracted because the authors didn’t read this piece by @causalinf.bsky.social before they started working with Claude Code.

Sobering piece on the Berlin power outage showing resilience is tricky - People had cars trapped behind electrically operated garage doors. First day alerts sent to people’s phones ‘which included links to websites that were impossible to access without the internet.’ www.ft.com/content/c91d...

You can judge a person by the size of their moral circle. Trump, for instance, has the smallest possible moral circle, containing only him. Be the opposite: expand your circle. Include, for example, animals currently raised for food. We shut them out of our consciences. It's time to bring them in.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Enter 2026; where a lawless international order is being determined by the United States. Looking forward to strong condemnations by our European leaders.

From the team #dotScot and #dotcodotscot Thanks for all your support 2025 and here’s to 2026! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌍🌏🌎🕸 Special shout out to @streetlibrary.ataxia.scot for allowing us to play a small part in all the great work you do #sponsors

UK (Scotland), Find Out Now poll: Scenario: Nigel Farage (REFORM~NI) is UK Prime Minister Independence referendum Yes: 61% No: 39% Fieldwork: 11-19 December 2025 Sample size: 1,000 ➤ europeelects.eu/uk

Time the European Commission got serious - tax planes and airports and use revenue to invest in rail !

One for your travels 2026 #Forres #Moray #Scotland #dotScot @thegreenplace.bsky.social visitforres.scot

Thick as mince and thick as thieves. A column about the absolute idiots European legislators have made of themselves over the naming of food, at the behest of meat lobbyists. You laugh and then you weep. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...