Satya Tripathi and Ross Greer, Green MSP, at the Action for a Fairer World event at the Scottish Parliament "From vision to action: Global Insights with Satya Tripathi Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - What now and What Next?"

The last 3 years have been the hottest in around 125,000 years. CO2 levels are their highest in MILLIONS of years. But most people have no idea this is happening, let alone what it means for our kids’ futures. Our politics & media have failed our children. We should be furious.

We heard the Cicada's "singing" in the trees opposite the holiday apartment in Liguria. On closer inspection today I found several exoskeletons from the Cicada nymphs, now emerged as adults, attached to the trunks of the trees. Possibly the ones we heard singing the past few days!

Test print for my linocut red squirrel. My skills/technique coming along, but still early days and much to work on.

If this all sounds a bit risky and radical, don't just take my word for it - check out @davegoulson.bsky.social 's excellent video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ1a...

"Apologists for Israel might want to reject the charge of genocide [and] suggest its hyperbole or even antisemitic, but the actual experts on genocide know a genocide when they see one - and they see one in Gaza." My receipts on all the experts who say Gaza *is* a genocide. zeteo.com/subscribe

"Il Ciabot", my attempt at a linocut print. Still a bit to learn and improve. (A Ciabot is a Piemontese term in north west Italy, for a kind of hut/small building, often in the middle of vineyards).

Today is World Bee day. www.un.org/en/observanc...

Working in my garden office hut on this warm and sunny day with the door open. A nice sky!

It's time to reduce your meat consumption, if you haven't already done so. You don't have to give up completely, just reduce, although I've been vegetarian for 53 years now and I can vouch for it.

A quick experiment with home made ink (knopper oak gall - black) and beetroot (red). With acknowledgement to the Bridget Davies book for artistic expression

Corstorphine wood is lively today - Merlin identifies.

Scotland needs to do the same! Department for Education confirms launch of natural history GCSE www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Do worms feel pain and are ants happy? Why the science on invertebrate feelings is evolving

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

I’m back in sight of Monviso.

BREAKING 🚨: WE WON OUR CASE AGAINST ROSEBANK. The court has ruled the oil field UNLAWFUL and Rosebank’s approval has been overturned. This is a monumental victory in the fight for a liveable future for all.

An excellent gift from my wife on my big birthday, following on from the pre-birthday lunch and the Whisky Experience yesterday. Looking forward to this.

Found some photographs of self portraits I drew/painted many years ago: "but I was so much older then I’m younger than that now". The painting (colour) was called Mr Gray's School Daze! Whatever happened to it? I think I still have the other two drawing somewhere.

A Complete Unknown. Brilliant!

Great keynote by Tami Spry at ECQI2025.

Meta is ushering in a ‘world without facts’, www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Shooting birds is not a "sport"; it's a cruel and outdated pastime that has no place in a modern, compassionate society.

If you go down to the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise....

Monviso again at sunset!

Picturesque view of Monviso today.

Boxing Day is the biggest day of the year for fox hunts across the country. So help us ruin their big day. Repost this and drop us a follow if you're against the sick pastime of fox hunting. Support wildlife this Boxing Day.

Support our call for an inquiry on our future relationship with Europe. "Tinkering around the edges of hard Brexit will not deliver for the British people. We need bold, clear, and informed action."

For too long fossil fuel companies have had largely unlimited £££ to greenwash their dirty reputations whilst continuing to wreak havoc with our planet – it’s time for that to end . Add your name petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Looking forward to reading this. Theophrastus, the father of botany, and student of, and successor to, Aristotle.

What is the real toll of natural and climate disasters? Science has staggering new answers www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This will (hopefully) never cease to be staggering to everyone else in the world.

"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent." Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on) youtu.be/WMwqhdVV5as

@gracedent.bsky.social We loved the article about French Christmas - but Ferrero Rocher is not French - originates in Alba, Italy in the Ferrero factory. Alba - my wife’s home town!

Hey teachers (you brilliant people, you) - if you want to introduce the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries to school students aged 5 to 18 in a playful, embodied and adaptable way, we've got some great tools for you... pls RT! doughnuteconomics.org/foundational...

This morning long shadow is on Cramond foreshore. Another crisp, cold Bluesky morning.

"The proper education of the young does not consist in stuffing their heads with a mass of words, sentences, and ideas dragged together out of various authors, but in opening their understanding to the outer world, so that a living stream may flow from their own minds" (John Amos Comenius, 1657)

Arrest warrants issued for Netanyahu, Gallant and Hamas commander over alleged war crimes www.bbc.com/news/article...

It was a month ago we visited Lomé in Togo to run a workshop with teachers on school gardens. Great time with the teachers and amazing experience visiting some of the schools and gardens. But the poverty and lack of amenities was stark. Togo, one of the poorest countries in the world.

#Science teachers say the current curriculum is ‘overloaded’ and in need of urgent reform to better prepare young people for the workplace of tomorrow, according to a new @roysocchem.bsky.social survey

A crisp, cold, Bluesky morning in the long shadow time of year. Good morning.

BREAKING: The University of Edinburgh is to lay off staff due to Labour tax rises. The National Insurance hike has led to a 'multi-million pound' increase to its salary bill, the university said.

Delighted to have presented our School Garden Briefing paper to the Scottish Parliament's CPG on Gardening & Horticulture last week, with Laura Coluci-Gray and Jonathan Hancock: tinyurl.com/3x5k5n66

Children are losing months of playtime during their school lives, argues former children's commissioner Anne Longfield. Here, she sets out how to fix that.

If you haven't yet been, go along to the Fungi Forms exhibition at the Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh. A captivating, well put together and enlightening exhibition spanning nature, science, art, fashion and music. Wonderful: www.rbge.org.uk/whats-on/fun...

Well here I am on Bluesky, so I thought I’d start with this handsome fox caught on my garden trailcam last night.