Congratulations to one of our directors, @andythegreenie.bsky.social, who has become a System Connector, furthering his skills in facilitating collaboration on #ClimateAction across the #Eastbourne community.

Delighted to have recently completed my training as a System Connector with OnePlanet youtu.be/x-9J9us_PJE?...

Oh good, looks like we've got more mines in the water. www.axios.com/2026/04/23/i...

We're helping to bring fully-funded #solar & battery storage to households across #Eastbourne, starting in Langney. Lowers energy bills from day 1. No upfront cost. Want to know more? Come to launch on 30th April 2026, 6:30pm to 8:00pm, at St Barnabas Church, Kingfisher Drive, Eastbourne, BN23 7RA.

Looks as though an invasion of Kharg Island, the terminal for nearly all Iranian oil, looms. Iran will inevitably respond by hitting key Gulf energy infrastructure. Time to brace for a global economic depression.

The US military has 22 sites in the UK. Every day long range US bombers are taking off here to drop bombs on Iran. This is a rogue state carrying out war crimes, and threatening more. The UK Government must grow a spine - and stop our bases being used for this war.

A significant shift away from petrol and diesel registrations last month to a significant shift in to electric and electrified cars as reported by @smmt-ukauto.bsky.social

203/ Awful. Iranian missiles have struck Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia, resulting in large-scale fires across the city. Al-Jubail is the backbone of the Saudi petrochemical and energy sector. Iranians now retaliating across the board after bombing Kuwait and Bahrain energy assets bsky.app/profile/drop...

“Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, To me the meanest flower that blows can give, Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.” Ode: Intimations of Immortality, 1807, by William Wordsworth, born #OTD 1770. St John’s College, Cambridge

Elon Musk is now worth over $800 billion. Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025. Meanwhile, millions of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and household debt has risen to a record high. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”

The Middle Eastern war could cause the collapse of American fossil-hegemony and help China to remake the global energy order. @katemac.bsky.social & I argue here: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/war...

War update: Russia helps Iran resist Trump, succeeds Russia helps Cuba resist Trump, succeeds Trump helps Russia invade Ukraine, fails

Really pleased to see this. For decades the education system has been subject to increasing commodification and centralised control. The result has been increased exclusions and reduced mental health for children.

Remarkable poll this evening from Lord Ashcroft. The Greens in joint 1st place. We are replacing Labour and ready to take on Reform in the local elections on 7th May. Join.greenparty.org.uk

"New poll from Lord Ashcroft shows Reform no longer out in front - tied on 21% with Greens & Tories, with Labour just behind. Not a ‘Labour poll’ or ‘Green poll’. Ashcroft is right wing & always has been. Even his company now thinks the Reform lead is evaporating" via Reform are not your friends

The next tipping point in the energy transition is approaching. Overall, solar has already been cheaper than fossil power for a while, but upfront costs used to be higher. That's no longer the case. Solar is now competitive upfront AND has vastly lower operating costs (no fuel).

Hundreds of North Sea licences granted by Tories ‘produce only 36 days of gas’ Exclusive: Findings cast doubt on claims new drilling would help cut bills and boost energy security, researchers say www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Pretty persistently frustrating that enviro opposition to data centres get clumsily dismissed as "NIMBY" when, as you can see here, it's well-evidenced and packed to the brim with real-world examples of material harm. And GP goes further than most in pointing out the end-goals of the system:

BREAKING: For the first time ever, GasBuddy data showing average diesel prices have risen above $8 per gallon in San Francisco, CA- the first ever U.S. city to reach the $8 mark ever.

"bluesky is dying" discourse means: check your smoke alarm batteries + reiterate that all text based social media is dying, it's just that X, Threads, Facebook, Substack Notes etc all hide their statistics bsky.jazco.dev/stats

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Ukrainians are making some extraordinary claims about Russian casualties in March. They feel their strategy of using drones to fight Russian soldiers has been vindicated.

We’re providing the booking platform for the free tickets to view the local community screenings of the new #ClimateEmergency film released by the National Emergency Briefing team. Book for the first #Eastbourne screening on April 14th here: www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticket...

🚨Screenings up & down UK from April🚨 The People’s Emergency Briefing. A new film building on last year’s National Emergency Briefing. A friendlier, watch-together version that pulls no punches and inspires action. Learn more here; nebriefing.org/the-film #PEBuk

1️⃣ The #climate & #nature crisis isn’t a future issue. It threatens all aspects of British life now and demands urgent action. Ten top experts briefed MPs and other influential people at the National Emergency Briefing in Westminster. Clips from each talk in this thread. 🧵👇 #NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp

Another major screening of the People's Emergency Briefing now confirmed - in the 800 capacity Great Hall at @lancasteruni.bsky.social. It will be chaired by Professor @mikebernerslee.bsky.social who chaired the event in Westminster. Tickets: www.lancasterarts.org/youre-invite... #PEBuk

UK government commits over £100m to boost active travel initiatives in England https://cyclingindustry.news/uk-government-commits-over-100m-to-boost-active-travel-initiatives/ To put this in perspective, this is less than the cost of building one roundabout on a road scheme...

Petrolheads are seen as just another group of hobbyists. In truth, they're a danger to society. The accidents they cause, the pollution and noise are just part of it. There's also an associated politics: toxic, selfish, macho, climate-denying, often far-right. For their "fun", everyone suffers.

Robert Jenrick calling Palm Sunday 'Psalm Sunday' reminds us once again that dim witted rage baiting populists never know the slightest thing about what they are purporting to defend.

Try and use Public Transport on 17th April to support this worldwide event 🚌🚋🚉

The #IranWar is making the case for #renewables such as #wind & #solar as never before. Fab, as our #EnergyChampions have formed an exciting partnership with a local #CommunityEnergy cooperative to significantly scale up #solar installations in one of the poorer wards of #Eastbourne. Details soon.

We now have figures for the hard of thinking.

NEW: Why does gas set the price of electricity – and is there an alternative? Make yourself a tea (or grab a beer??) and enjoy my Friday longread on marginal pricing, ideas for market reform – & how to break the link btwn gas & power prices for good www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/8

Hedgehogs are woke now

Over two thirds of the British public back proposals for solar panels to be installed on all new houses 87% believe govt policy should ensure new homes are designed to cut energy costs www.businessgreen.com/news/4526696...

Ah! More of those "defensive" strikes on Iranian missile sites.

Trump says US will use the Development Finance Corporation to provide political risk insurance for maritime trade in the Gulf, with possible US Navy escorts through Strait of Hormuz. Companies would pay insurance premiums to US — effectively making DC financial backstop for global energy shipping.

Excuse me?

The right always love to angrily explain the point of a policy like it’s some sort of protest against the policy.

"UK Green Party Surges Ahead of Starmer’s Labour in a New Poll" The YouGov poll reflects a seismic shift happening in UK politics after the Greens won a historic victory in the Gorton and Denton by-election last week.

Huge news!! Anyone who wants to help push us onwards, it's easy: join.greenparty.org.uk

I saw some folks asking what the difference was between what OpenAI signed with the DoD and what Anthropic said they wanted, and Sam more or less admits here the key point: OpenAI's deal requires them to trust the NSA. Anthropic's contract had real safeguards.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

Keir Starmer has written to all Labour MPs attacking the Green Party for embracing "divisive" and "sectarian" politics I'm picking up concern among Labour MPs about how this letter will come across to people who have voted/are tempted to vote Green, as it could risk further alienating these voters

We are ‘not a multicultural country’? Fuck right off.

'In May last year, Keir Starmer said: “Every area of the immigration system, including work, family and study, will be tightened up so we have more control. Enforcement will be tougher than ever and migration numbers will fall.”' www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Just bad from Starmer. Your opponent took 40% of the vote. At the very least, for Labour folks, this is a "we hear you, we got it wrong, we will change," moment, even if he doesn't mean it.

Just watched first episode of this. Even if you've been close to the details this is pure cold fury. A crystallised portrait of the scandal which has been inflicted on us and our environment at the hands of corporate scam artists and their political enablers. www.channel4.com/programmes/d...