It’s funny how different retrofit seems to be in the US from in the UK. Of course the core ideas of insulation, air tightness, ventilation and electrification are the same, but the dominant technologies, terminology and metrics are different. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

AEG’s website is shamelessly replete with AI slop 😳

Fly by private jet and you don’t pay tax on the fuel, and you don’t pay air passenger duty youtube.com/shorts/feOKF...

“People often think of climate change as a separate bucket at the end of a long row of other buckets of problems we're trying to fix that are wrong in the world. […] The reason we care about climate change is that it's the hole in every bucket." @katharinehayhoe.com

If you’re going to do some insulating or air tightness/draught proofing, I recommend buying or borrowing a thermal image camera if you can. It’s useful not just for identifying areas to insulate, but checking your work for defects that are often not obvious to the naked eye.

After years of research, scientist Leonid Pshenichnov concluded Russia + China cannot continue fishing krill, the main food source of many marine creatures, at current rates without risking breakdown of entire ocean ecosystems. Russia had him arrested: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Gas meter removal day today 🥳🐙⚡️

But seriously: I'm prepping for a panel on Abundance and climate and going down the rabbit hole of documenting everything so I can cite it, and I'm finding things are SO much worse than I even thought. Did you know that the Charles Koch Foundation was a sponser of Abundance 2024? No, really.

WOW: "Covid-19 vaccines... set off a powerful alarm that rallies the human immune system against cancer and nearly doubles the median survival length of patients, according to a new retrospective study by researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center & the University of Florida."

Raggling/chasing rigid woodfibre. Palm router worked well for cutting a fixed depth, and creates loose insulation collected in the vacuum, which might come in handy elsewhere. #retrofit

Solar power but make it bad for the environment

📢 Episode 4 is out now! Last year, Spain was hit by one of the worst disasters in its history It was driven by climate change But it ended up boosting climate deniers... How can the world stop this from happening again? Listen now: overshootpod.com

This is incredible! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

This is really good @overshootpod.bsky.social @laurielaybourn.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

Funny how when it comes to phasing out fossil fuels, there was so much concern about a just transition for workers that they didn’t really want to encourage any transition at all, but when it comes to the prospect of “AI” eliminating vast numbers of jobs…

A #RetroFit #airtightness technique I’ve been using with areas that are awkwardly lumpy to tape, and with gaps too big to paint with liquid membrane, is to stuff the gaps with little clumps of woodfibre and then paint with liquid membrane.

Yes the CO2 rise 2023-2024 was faster than we predicted at Mauna Loa and was a record rise there - now the WMO confirm the global mean rise was also a record Also the rate of CO2 rise is now above the IPCC scenarios that limit global warming to 1.5C www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...

“This extra health cost was NZ$3,200 (£1,400) annually for each modern wood stove and as much as NZ$26,800 (£11,500) for each open fire” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Why are they even looking for more??? This is another 475 million tonnes of CO2 !!! "there’s no room for new fields to be opened. When you’re in a hole, you have to stop digging.” - Dr. Greg Muttitt, @iisd.org #ClimateEmergency

"Despite the communities efforts, their carbon footprint sits at 7tCO2, a long way from net zero. Flights represent the highest share of emissions. Proof that change will require a major shift in attitudes, even in an eco village."

Findhorn will always have exceptional architecture, but it’s exciting to think we’re on the way to it no longer being exceptionally low carbon, as the rest of Scotland adopts technologies that Findhorn pioneered. youtu.be/yVwrndbv-Xc?...

Wow, official tests show PHEVs environmental performance improving, but in the real world they are actually becoming more polluting. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Holy wow, +3.5 ppm CO₂ last year, up from +2.4 ppm average the past decade, and +0.6 ppm in the 1960s. It gets scarier the closer you look at it. All this is a stress test for the planet, and it's buckling. Two big reasons for the massive increase: wildfires, and the ocean sinks are shutting down.

This book finally got published today - free for download here cssn.org/news-researc... A monumental effort documenting climate obstruction across sectors, countries & governance levels, by 110 @cssn.org scholars I was chuffed to contribute to one of the chapters (thread)

“That’s what the planning system is for: to reconcile the need for development with other public needs.”

The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here. These are the ones published since Labour won the election. "We are happy to correct the record."

I was told that EPCs had changed their methodology with regard to heat pumps, but while they recognise the environmental benefit, they're still giving a 450% efficient central heating system 3/5 for energy efficiency. 🤦‍♂️

Greenpeace UK says high fees for offshore wind developers to lease the seabed is an abuse of monopoly power by Crown Estate High fees push up the price of offshore wind & will act as a tax on energy bills, to fund the monarchy & lower taxes It's time it stopped www.ft.com/content/c29c...

One thing that gives me a bit of hope with regard to Reform’s prospects is that concern about immigration is not constantly high, and chances are that something else will displace it by the next election. yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack. Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia. Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

What do China's new climate pledges show us about the future? The putative electrostate elected to punt -- it isn't ready to commit to a non-coal future. Xi's government is unambitious, and seems to be falling into the very middle income trap that it says it fears. heatmap.news/ideas/china-...

We're grateful to Lord Deben for his endorsement of the National Emergency Briefing on the #climate and #nature crisis. Lord Deben was first elected as a Conservative MP in 1970. He chaired the UK expert adviser on climate from 2012 - 2023. Is your MP attending on 27th Nov? www.nebriefing.org

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

When the going gets tough, targets get ditched. youtube.com/shorts/3Ak1Y...

They can't shrink the civil service + reduce the deficit + cut taxes by billions + quadruple deportations to 150k/year (& shrink the legal population by 500k+ by going to net zero migration) bsky.app/profile/sund...

355 MEPs voted today to ban the use of meat denominations like burger & sausage for plant-based products. This is a manufactured issue. Consumers are not confused. If there was ever clearer evidence of political decision-making being heavily influenced by the animal agriculture lobby. This is it.

The government’s own data rebuts Trump Admin claims that wind and solar are driving up electricity prices, Politico reports share.google/RTIXPPQMXrTH... “[T]he data say pretty much the opposite” of Trump & Secretary Wright’s claims.

What are the best products for retrofitting airtightness to wooden doors, loft hatches, etc? I'm imagining a solution that can go right round the perimeter of the door/hatch, not just a brush tacked to the bottom - and ideally the design includes a thermal break between inside and outside.

They’re right: protesting genocide is ‘anti British’, as historically it’s often been the British supporting and on occasion committing genocide.

“We must stop expecting carbon offsetting to work at scale. […] We have assessed 25 years of evidence and almost everything up until this point has failed.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“The president is unhinged. He is unwell,” Dean told Johnson, in an encounter filmed by journalists. “Well a lot of folks on your side are too,” Johnson responded. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Times of Israel reports that Greta Thunberg & her fellow Flotilla crew are being held in a special "terrorist" section of Ketziot prison—or in "terrorist conditions," as Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's Minister of National Security put it. www.timesofisrael.com/thunberg-sai...

“Amazon makes more than $50bn every year charging merchants for search placement. When you search for a product on Amazon, the top results aren’t the best matches: they’re the matches that pay the highest fees” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

In this week's episode, we dig into the psychology of mis/disinformation and why it works so well. We thought we knew a lot about disinformation, and then we talked to these experts! drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Today formally marks the end of a 17 year cross-party consensus on climate change & an extremely dangerous moment in our history Turning our backs on climate action is tantamount to accepting the full force of climate change. It is a self-imposed death sentence

Kemi 2025 meet Kemi 2022. (And we wonder why trust in politicians is plummeting?)

I’m in the first flush of excitement of having rooftop solar and checking the app 100x a day, and even though I knew production would be feast and famine here in Scotland, I’m still surprised how much it varies. One day last week produced almost 30kWh, today produced 3.5kWh.