I'm grateful for this conversation about our new book, Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future. As fans of Future Histories might expect, Jan pushed us on questions of economic planning and institutional design.

Harms of introduced large herbivores outweigh benefits to native biodiversity: " We therefore advise caution regarding the intentional introduction of large mammalian herbivores for conservation purposes (rewilding, assisted colonization) [...]" 🌐🌎 #bioinvasions www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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THIS is why fossil fuel interests are pouring money into Reform.

Morecambe, by Bradford-born Fred Cecil Jones, 1891-1966 (private collection). #NorthernArt

World leading environmental science research and staff don't align with US politics (I'm sad for the people affected) www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

My good friend @helendecruz.net is currently in hospice after a long battle with cancer, and has written this beautiful piece reflecting on what is truly of value in life. helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-...

The energy at the edges - a new post with some thoughts on the vitality at the edges of the system. medium.com/@jamestplunk...

The least ‘integrated’ part of British society isn’t the immigrants – it’s the elite | Andy Beckett www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-... Last year's (temporary) budget increase of 20% for EPA expected to go but the request looks to reduce the budget by a further 34%

Hi! We are Futureproof Cumbria. You may have known us as Cumbria Action for Sustainability- but today we launched our new name and brand. Our mission is to help people communities and organisations tackle climate change by promoting action and supporting change. futureproofcumbria.org.uk

Regime Change in the West? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... excellent summary of where we are and the absence of alternatives - sobering and realistic

An open letter setting out the important environment justice work done by the #usepa and suggested actions to correct the damage caused by their abrupt cancellation open.substack.com/pub/environm...

Important to take notice

Exciting times ahead for Morecambe #edenproject www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/business/ede...

Next was an important panel on Britain's inequality crisis with Danny Dorling, Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, Kitty Stewart, and Poly Toynbee at the LSE www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWll... (12/13)

Britain is now following a developing country economic model – and we know where that leads | Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah

NEW: David Miliband joins the growing backlash to Keir Starmer's decision to cut the aid budget to boost defence spending. He says: "The global consequences of this decision will be far reaching and devastating for people who need more help not less."

Shameful day for the UK as it announces cut to the aid budget to an historic low of 0.3% - background here commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

its obvious a negotiated settlement is needed but all this appears to be a novel art of diplomacy www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...

The government's narrative on planning is basically the same as the last government's. That's because it has the same intellectual progenitors, the ultra free market think tanks. I'm afraid it's likely to end in the same failure. My new blog - greenallianceblog.org.uk/2025/01/30/w... 1/

An excellent piece of writing www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Curlews, hen harriers, black grouse, GPS collars for cattle and no moorland burning: excellent to hear that the RSPB’s Geltsdale reserve will be expanding in size www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Useful input from green alliance -recomendations are modest and fine tuning - do we need a more fundamental review green-alliance.org.uk/publication/...

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

4/ Read our full analysis and recommendations here: https://buff.ly/3EdGXiv

Documents released under FoI reveal a very cosy relationship between NatureScot, the statutory nature conservation agency, & the grouse shooting industry it's supposedly regulating. raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/01/24/n...

Unusually warm day in Northumberland yesterday and lots of shoreline birds enjoying the afternoon sunshine

Report available here www.theoep.org.uk/report/gover... Progress up to March 2024

New painting! I've been working on this one for months, and finally nailed it so I've added it to my website. If you like it, please repost. Thanks! #art #lakedistrict #borrowdale www.davidpottart.co.uk/product/borr...

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Thinking of compensating for holiday travel or wanting to donate instead of contributing further consumption over the holidays www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth... #wildlife #uk

Opportunity to rethink these demarcated areas but this will need unpacking "Through this recovery, Protected Landscapes will fight climate change, foster a thriving green economy and connect communities with nature while protecting them from flooding" defraenvironment.blog.gov.uk/2024/12/16/7...

New @marmotihe.bsky.social report calls on the property sector to work with central & local government to put health, wellbeing and environmental sustainability at the centre of all UK house building www.instituteofhealthequity.org/resources-re...

While native woodland creation schemes are releasing carbon into the atmosphere and damaging nature, the sad truth is that many planting schemes from the past have never developed into woodland parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2024/12/13/t...

There's a big risk to nature enhancement - which govt says it wants, and new residents like - if housebuilding is left to current mainstream developers 83% of hedgehog highways not provided, no evidence of **any** of the bug boxes from developers’ plans www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Nov 2024 update to Who Owns Scotland is now published. No new properties this month but all 3600 landholdings covering 73.97% of rural Scotland updated. The project is financed solely by subscription income. Please subscribe at whoownsscotland.org.uk

Linnets enjoying the winter sunshine #cumbria

The surprising truth about why wealth inequality hasn’t risen – and the less surprising reality that Britain is still unfair www.resolutionfoundation.org/comment/weal...

There is a political cost to governments when people feel worse off. @jrf_uk's latest cost of living tracker underlines how urgent the situation for millions of low income households, and how it's set to get worse without political action. 📺find out more 1/2

Reminder that shift to renewable energy and transport is weighted in favour of those able to invest - more state intervention will be required to ensure a just transition but this will be a difficult tightrope to walk energytransition.org/2024/12/deli...

new @earth4all.bsky.social study of (un)sustainable development to 2100 with expected negative feedback loops dominating from 2040 - its good to see this work in the literature and although it requires more engagement it offers useful insight for long-term policy considerations tinyurl.com/yc6kzwdn

📚🎁 FLASH SALE | 50% off! Edinburgh University Press are having a St. Andrew's Day FLASH SALE this weekend, but it ends today (Sunday 1st Dec 2024), so get your copy of The Viking Age in Scotland now! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-vik...

Broken promises—the engine of consumerism | Blog by Tim Jackson cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/... #blackfriday

Important piece by @jdportes.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... perhaps its time for some cross party working together on this complex question

To produce 25,000 transcriptions of English wills 1540-1790 we are combining Handwritten Text Recognition software with the power of the crowd. If you'd like to participate you can transcribe wills any time on our Zooniverse site! #EarlyModern 🗃️ www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...

Let's do a giveaway to welcome new people! I'll send a free signed copy of What is Freedom to a random follower. To enter, just share this (& follow if you don't already)

like many on here I am relatively new and cancelling my previous long time dalliance with Twitter - this is a very useful app that facilitates transfer of followers from X chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...