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Campaigning in Southwark against extinction
Southwark/south london folks, come to this great event!
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Mike Berners-Lee
about 1 month ago
Do you think your MP is aware of the full implications of the climate crisis, across health, national security, food security and our economy? Ask them to attend the first National Emergency Briefing on 27 Nov:
www.nebriefing.org
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Simon Oldridge
about 1 month ago
📣 Calling UK scientists 📣 Please would you sign an open letter urging all MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing with the science on the threats from ongoing damage to
#climate
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- alongside positive actions. See reply for how to sign 👇👇 Please share with colleagues 🙏
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National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...
https://www.nebriefing.org
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Michael E. Mann
3 months ago
I urge all policymakers to attend this vital briefing on the climate & nature crisis, which brings the latest science from leading experts straight to the people in power. I’d like to see one in every country, & the organizers are open to sharing the model. More info:
www.nebriefing.org
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National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats arising from the climate & nature crisis to an invite-only audience. Westminster Central Hall, 27 November. Has your MP confirmed yet?
https://www.nebriefing.org
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Please attend this!
@helenhayes.bsky.social
@miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social
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2 months ago
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Adam Vaughan
4 months ago
UK environment secretary Steve Reed has been out today trumpeting a goal to cut sewage spills 50% by 2030 against 2024 levels But Ofwat said last year that water co spending would cut spills 45% by 2030 against 2021 levels Reed goal gets you 225,199 sewage spills in 2030 Ofwat gets you 204,893!
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Stop Rosebank
4 months ago
BREAKING 🚨: We've just dropped a massive banner off Westminster Bridge to demand the UK Government
#StopRosebank
It's time for Keir Starmer make the right choice 👀
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Christian Climate Action
5 months ago
🕊️🙏 PRAY WITH US TO END NEW OIL & GAS🙏🕊️ In CCA, one of our key campaigns is the Stop Rosebank Oilfield Campaign. Rosebank is a key oil field to stop, because if a relatively advanced project like Rosebank is refused permission, then that will mean that the other 15 approved North Sea oil licenses..
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The Revelator
5 months ago
A simple way to cut your carbon footprint: Use this tip to get AI out of your search results.
therevelator.org/how-to-get-a...
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How to Get AI Out of Your Google Search Results • The Revelator
Three simple keystrokes will deliver search results that consume less energy and water — and probably contain better information.
https://therevelator.org/how-to-get-ai-out-of-search-results/
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Dave Vetter
5 months ago
"Train is the new private jet." Dua Lipa continues to promote taking the train over flying, boarding a Eurostar to London at Gare du Nord. This is climate-conscious messaging done right. Posted by lejeuneengage on IG.
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Annie Leymarie
5 months ago
Will you join a week of action (14-20 July) by
@joinheatstrike.bsky.social
?
heatstrike.uk/heat-week
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Turn Up The Heat Week - Heat Strike
https://heatstrike.uk/heat-week
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Katie Matthews, PhD
5 months ago
Hundreds to thousands of microplastic particles per cup (not counting nanoplastics!)
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Microplastic Release from Single-Use Plastic Beverage Cups
Microplastics (MPs) have attracted considerable attention as one of the most remarkable food and drink pollutants in recent years. Disposable cups, which are widely used as single-use containers, have...
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11121293/
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DeSmog
5 months ago
WPP, one of the globe's leading advertising and public relations conglomerates, holds dozens of contracts with companies in the fossil fuel sector. Climate advocates say this makes WPP "complicit in inflicting existential damage on both humanity and the Earth."
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Climate Activists Protest at London Headquarters of Global Ad Giant WPP
Climate campaigners turned out on Wednesday in London to occupy the lobby of UK-based communications giant WPP, demanding that the company stop working for the fossil fuel industry. As demonstrators…
https://buff.ly/RhU8ldZ
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Add your voice! Write to your MP
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour MPs poised to rebel over planning bill amid concerns for nature
Ministers understood to be drawing up amendments to bill to try to head off threatened rebellion by two dozen MPs
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/04/labour-mps-poised-to-rebel-over-planning-bill-amid-concerns-for-nature?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
6 months ago
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Mums for Lungs
6 months ago
Shocking new research by
@clientearth.bsky.social
&
@creacleanair.bsky.social
reveals the
#Health
effects of excess NOx
#AirPollution
emissions in the UK. Reminder: these emissions come from Euro 5&6
#Diesel
cars emitting suspiciously high levels of pollution. Millions are still on our roads.
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Dieselgate pollution killed 16,000 people in UK, study estimates
Experts decry lack of UK government action and warn a further 6,000 early deaths could occur
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/28/dieselgate-pollution-killed-16000-people-in-uk-study-estimates
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Covering Climate Now
6 months ago
Amid more frequent and costly climate disasters, 11 US states are considering legislation that place fossil fuel companies on the hook for damages. Two states, Vermont and New York, have helped lead the way, passing similar bills in the last two years.
@akielly.bsky.social
for Grist
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Despite backlash, more states are considering laws to make Big Oil pay for climate change
After Vermont and New York passed "climate Superfund" legislation, 11 states have introduced similar bills this year.
https://buff.ly/SSPo6BH
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Brian McHugh
7 months ago
@mikebernerslee.bsky.social
UK scientists stage historic climate protest at parliament Net Zero matters a great deal
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/environ...
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UK scientists stage historic climate protest at parliament
Chris Packham joins over 150 British experts rallying in London to demand urgent, science-based climate policy
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/environment/uk-scientists-stage-historic-climate-protest-at-parliament/?feed_id=7446&_unique_id=68236f8e80c09
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Conversations about climate change, oceans and what schools can do better at our Natural History Museum event on Sunday
7 months ago
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Defend Our Juries
7 months ago
Sentencing Solidarity - May 9th
#FreePoliticalPrisoners
All four
@juststopoil.bsky.social
defendants avoided custodial sentences at Southwark Crown Court today. Two hearings took place in two separate courtrooms - the convictions were for conspiracy and causing a public nuisance. 1/3
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Leo Hickman
7 months ago
Where Robert Prevost, the new US-born Pope, stands on climate change: "Prevost is outspoken about the need for urgent action on climate change"
collegeofcardinalsreport.com/evidence/car...
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Dr Alex Bond
7 months ago
Another day. Another couple hundred pieces of plastic from a dead seabird chick.
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Liberty
7 months ago
🚨BREAKING🚨 WE’VE WON OUR CASE TO
#DefendDemocracy
The Court of Appeal has ruled that anti-protest laws which completely ignored the will of Parliament are unlawful
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Bring Science to Politics - for Climate, Nature & Our Survival
7 months ago
✍️ Have you signed up? 🚧 Still on the fence? 🤔 Got questions? 🗣️ JOIN OUR BRIEFING CALL Meet the organisers Hear the plan Ask questions Share ideas 📆 Mon 5 May ⏰ 8-9pm Zoom link 👇 📝 Signup:
tinyurl.com/SciParl25
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We could insulate our cold homes
@lbsouthworth.bsky.social
why are you sitting on this money?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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London councils yet to spend £130m in local climate funds
Local authorities have spent less than £40m out of £170m collected since offsetting scheme began in 2016
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/26/london-councils-yet-to-spend-130m-in-local-climate-funds?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
7 months ago
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In just a few years, we have abandoned a global reasoned scientific consensus and chosen to listen to the people sticking their fingers in their ears and shouting la la la.
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7 months ago
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Join us on 28 April!
7 months ago
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Mums for Lungs
8 months ago
Oxford Street is iconic - the nation's high street. But it's also loud, polluted, full of traffic and people jostling for space. Imagine the transformation that pedestrianising it would make. Thriving high streets don't need cars! Please respond to this consultation by 2nd May.
#AirPollution
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Oxford Street Transformation
This public consultation – which will run from 28 February 2025 to 02 May 2025 - is about gathering your views on the proposed establishment of a new Mayoral Development Corporation to unlock the…
https://haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/oxford-street
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Vets who fear for their jobs will continue to prescribe unnecessary pesticides that kill millions of bees. We need regulation. BBC News - Vets tell BBC they are under 'consistent pressure' to make money - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Vets tell BBC they are under 'consistent pressure' to make money
Some tell the BBC they are encouraged to compete over the number of procedures they carry out on pets.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62zzegvk33o
8 months ago
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8 months ago
#DirtyWater
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Jessica Austin-Burdett
8 months ago
All councils need to be more Reading!!
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Kelli
8 months ago
Pls respond to govt consultation on land use by 24 April! 🙏 Did you know this was happening?! 😳 Thanks
@bylinesnetwork.co.uk
consult.defra.gov.uk/land-use-fra...
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This! More of this
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘People love being here’: London development shows harmony between nature and housing
Five thousand new homes alongside a paradise for newts appears to fly in face of government’s ‘false wedge’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/11/london-development-shows-harmony-between-nature-and-housing?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
8 months ago
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Thoughts? (We have plenty of water pollution after all...)
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘Yoda’ for scientists: the outsider ecologist whose ideas from the 80s just might fix our future
John Todd’s eco-machine stunned experts by using natural organisms to remove toxic waste from a Cape Cod lagoon. Forty years on, he wants to build a fleet of them to clean up the oceans
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/apr/10/scientists-john-todd-eco-machines-pollution-technology-ships-oceans?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
8 months ago
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XR Lewisham
8 months ago
A new 'climate café', part of the brilliant Telegraph Hill Festival! Saturday 12 April 2-4 pm The Field youth club, 385 Queen's Road, London, SE14 5HD Free, but must book in advance:
www.telegraphhillfestival.org.uk/events/clima...
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XR Lewisham
8 months ago
Chris Packham, who launched this petition, would love it to reach 100,000 signatures so that it gets discussed in Parliament:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Petition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship
Advertisements encourage the use of products and sponsorship promotes a positive reputation & creates a social licence of trust & acceptability. In 2003 a ban on all tobacco advertising was introduced...
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700024
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How do you have a rational debate with people who do things that are this irrational?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Trump officials quietly move to reverse bans on toxic ‘forever chemicals’
EPA bids to change chemical risk evaluations, which could expose public to higher levels of PFAS and other pollutants
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/05/trump-pfas-toxic-forever-chemicals?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
8 months ago
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Helen Czerski
8 months ago
Spring reminder, as people start to think about gardening: NEVER buy compost with peat it in (inexplicably still on sale). If it does not say "peat free" in big letters, do not buy it. Peat is incredibly valuable in peat bogs, for rare biodiversity and as a carbon store. Don't put it on your garden!
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XR Lewisham
8 months ago
Several of us from XR Lewisham responded to a Quakers invitation to sit yesterday with hundreds of others by Scotland Yard, to defend the right to protest. We sat opposite a strong contingent from the Green Party: 2 MPs, 2 members of the London Assembly, 1 member of the House of Lords and more.
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What are the chances of getting the uk's new housing built like this?
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8 months ago
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⚠️TODAY Dulwich Picture Gallery is urgently looking for volunteers to help plant out some trees. They’re concerned about them surviving the heat and have about 30-40 still left to plant. Go to the Meadow Space at the gallery from 11am and follow the signs.
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Obscene new uk oilfields Jackdaw and Rosebank, defeated in the courts, to go ahead anyway Reeves: "We said in our manifesto that they would go ahead, that we would honour existing licenses, and we're committed to doing that, and go ahead they will"
#stoprosebank
www.thesun.co.uk/news/politic...
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Reeves will NOT raise taxes in Spring Statement & doubles down on benefits bill
RACHEL Reeves today promises not to raise taxes in the Spring Statement and to balance the books by cracking down on Britain’s bloated state instead. The Chancellor will also train up to …
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/politics/33990814/rachel-reeves-tax-spring-statement/
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Annie Leymarie
8 months ago
Wellbeing must be addictive! 🤔
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Everything's fine, nothing to see here
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Stockpile 72 hours of supplies in case of disaster or attack, EU tells citizens
Bloc’s first preparedness strategy urges people to prepare for floods, fires, pandemics or military strikes
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/26/stockpile-supplies-72-hours-disasters-attack-eu-tells-citizens?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
8 months ago
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Tom Scott
10 months ago
Parliament's Public Accounts Committee is not exactly a hotbed of radical environmentalists. So when it warns that the government's carbon capture scheme is a high-risk punt on very dubious technology for which consumers will pay the bill...
committees.parliament.uk/committee/12...
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Carbon capture: High degree of uncertainty whether risky investment by Govt will pay off - Committees - UK Parliament
While lessons learned from past failures in introducing technology, PAC report warns Govt has not assessed likely impact on consumer energy bills of carbon capture programme.
https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/127/public-accounts-committee/news/205139/carbon-capture-high-degree-of-uncertainty-whether-risky-investment-by-govt-will-pay-off/
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Sustainable Farming
8 months ago
A clever video illustrating land use on Earth, and highlighting how much land is used for meat and dairy production. The video is by the independent app
@forkranger.bsky.social
- which provides clever ideas to help reduce food waste.
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George Monbiot
8 months ago
I don't often ask people to write to their MPs. But I think they might listen to you on this, as it's so jaw-droppingly awful, and they're almost certainly unaware of it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Please also write to the Environment Secretary:
[email protected]
Thanks.
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What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge spread on to UK farmland? Toxic waste – and ministers don’t care | George Monbiot
Water companies let waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. When it is recklessly used as fertiliser, we are all at risk, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/21/tonnes-sludge-uk-farmland-sewage-farms-toxins-food-system
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Kιƚƚყ ₜₕₑ ᵥₑgₐₙ ₛₒcᵢₐₗᵢₛₜ 📎Ⓥ🌱💚🦇🌍🐠🇬🇧🇪🇺
8 months ago
Lovely phone family, as well as being my birthday today, it's also the day we mark Earth Hour 🌎 Please join me in switching off as many lights as you can between 8.30-9.30pm, wherever you are in the world. Let's show our beautiful planet some love 💚
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How can there not be a national political consensus in favour of survival?
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9 months ago
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Why not London?
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