"In one case, a family had turned off their heat pump and were instead using electric fan heaters in a single room, which proved much less efficient than heating the whole house with the heat pump..." Old habits die hard. A heat pump will rewire your brain, if you let it. Let the heat flow.

The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.

Liverpool: You'll Never Walk Again

Lovely door knocking session this morning. Good vibes for @zackpolanski.bsky.social in Bebington 😎 #HOPE

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omg my diary tomorrow 😅

I sent my lad off to school today in green socks and a cap, as the school celebrates some great environmental work the kids have been doing. The grown ups need to get their arses in gear, and fast.

if you like inbox zero then don't become a councillor

Next season: Cargo bikes 💯

Met with some asylum seekers last week. They were amazing/lovely/awesome/complex. Their stories were harrowing. The volunteers helping them are wonderful.

Won't somebody please think of the motorists? It's interesting that the 'sustainable solution' to concerns is an online parents evening, rather than, ya know, people finding other ways to travel www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

"bUt cHiNa!" Sending thoughts and prayers to the cranks, fossil fuel shills, etc.

Plugging my laptop in at a council meeting last night... a Labour councillor says to me 'I hope that's green electricity you're using!' Deeply weird. Reflects their own guilt at things in their own life that they could be doing, but probably aren't because... reasons 🤷‍♂️ Discuss.

Really useful scheme from @nestauk.bsky.social. If you know a boiler/heating engineer, send them the link. The more that can experience the benefits of a heat pump in their own homes the better 😎 www.startathome.org.uk

no rest until we have a vehicle parked on every junction ✊

"Wherever we looked for the prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler."

The Butlerian Jihad is some way off

Scariest thing I saw last night 🎃

"... the equivalent of London to Birmingham for £2.50" Has anyone higher up the chain worked out what some of the unintended consequences of this might be?? 🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗

Babies born today may well live to see more than 6 feet of additional sea level rise in their lifetimes. Walk any beach or port and imagine the normal water level being six feet higher. Then imagine how much higher the storm surges will be.

Memo to the fella that suggested we should 'fall in love with the car again' yesterday. Read local articles like this and have another think 🤔

Let’s seize this moment for children’s outdoor play! FREE lunchtime webinar, Weds 3 Dec 12.30-1.30pm Hear from Cllrs @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social and @edwardlamb.bsky.social on the bolder actions councils can take to restore children's outdoor play. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/restoring-...

Please do sign up for - and share - this webinar, on Dec 3rd, to hear about some of the amazing work going on nationally and locally to restore children's ability to play out on their doorsteps. @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social @edwardlamb.bsky.social @playingout.bsky.social @aliceferguson.bsky.social

I remember doing a thread on the old, dead website that wondered if habitual drivers actually *like* congestion, even if they might complain about it to friends, family and the internet about it. This ad goes some way to explaining things

Absolutely love this. Reminder that the bicycle is the GOAT of human inventions, for a whole host of reasons 😎

'Dad, I've just discovered a band called The Red Hot Chilli Peppers. They're amazing!' The kids are alright, folks. Carry on

Cardiff's parking strategy looks interesting. So do the comments from car-dependent students 👀

I am becoming convinced that autonomous vehicles are designed to solve the problem of "I live in a wealthy suburb but have a horrible car commute and don't want to drive anymore but also hate trains and buses and refuse to ride a bike."

Spot the Difference (🇬🇧 vs 🇳🇱)

"Mr Mayor, Wirral Greens are Wirral's most dangerous political grouping!" Tory Cllr Max Booth last night at Full Council 🤡 Wirral Greens (a lovely bunch, consistently threatening people with a very good time - and flapjacks):

Why spend billions burying a road when you could just plan for city of the future where residents don't need cars to get around?

Event incoming (Thursday) thanks to @lowtrafficfuture.bsky.social "Stuck in the Slow Lane: Tackling Car Dependency" 👇👇👇

The 🇳🇱 aren't finished tweaking their road network. They never will be and neither will your town/country. I've been to Haarlem a couple of times now and it was interesting to see the changes in between visits. Here's one...

not quite my tempo

Pay out should be in e-bike credits 🫡 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Really hope we see a lot more micro-EVs in the UK in the years ahead. Smaller, slower, lighter, cheaper...

"With sustainability comes empathy and compassion. These are all traits that you get when you decide to take care of the place that gives you life..." "We need greener cities, with fewer cars."

🚨 Event incoming! 🗓️ Thursday 16th Oct 2025. 8–9pm Stuck in the Slow Lane: Tackling Car Dependency 🚗↘️ Join us and Izzy from @wearepossible.bsky.social where we explore the art of communicating the case for reducing car dependence 🔗 Register now (it's free!) actionnetwork.org/events/commu...

infinite dropped kerbs ♾️ you can almost smell the accessibility 🙄

Wirral Labour have (until quite recently) hammered Wirral Greens. We've gone from 1 councillor to 14 in that time 🤷‍♂️

🚨 BREAKING | Greens now have 80,000 members. This is an increase of 10,000 since @zackpolanski.bsky.social won the leadership in a landslide victory (85-15). (Source: @greenparty.org.uk)

Banned driver given another ban. Genius

it's one of those days when you take a detour through Port Sunlight

Good for business. Good for people.

Sir, your pickup truck *almost taking off* when you hit a speed hump at 35mph is nature's way of telling you to *slow down*

The inefficiency of fossil fuels is a feature, not a bug

This is Utrecht's reinvented Amsterdamsestraatweg. The municipality faced a unique challenge: How to transform one of the busiest car routes into a greener, more liveable space? FInd out how they did it: buff.ly/p06KxAA

motion for live world class track & field athletics to be a broadcast live 24/7

"I've never seen the roads so dangerous in my 39-year career," said the man who has no idea how ridiculous he sounds. Almost 900 fewer people have been injured.