Theresa McManus
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Nature lover, environmentalist, promoter of sustainability.
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The Guardian
about 8 hours ago
Dog food accounts for 1% of UK greenhouse gas emissions, study finds
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Dog food accounts for 1% of UK greenhouse gas emissions, study finds
Study of 1,000 products finds wet, raw and meat-free foods have substantially higher climate impact than dry kibble Dog food accounts for 1% of the UK’s total greenhouse gas emissions, according to research that finds wet, raw and meat-rich products are associated with substantially higher emissions than dry kibble. The analysis revealed striking differences in the environmental impact of commercial dog foods, with the highest-impact foods being responsible for up to 65 times more emissions than the lowest-rated options. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jan/08/dog-food-accounts-for-1-of-uk-greenhouse-gas-emissions-study-finds?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Ian Hall
15 days ago
We analysed 73,000 articles and found the UK media is divorcing ‘climate change’ from net zero
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We analysed 73,000 articles and found the UK media is divorcing ‘climate change’ from net zero
Articles on net zero used to always explain the scientific background. But not anymore.
https://theconversation.com/we-analysed-73-000-articles-and-found-the-uk-media-is-divorcing-climate-change-from-net-zero-272527
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Why does the right wing wish to accelerate climate change? I can only guess that they're funded by fossil fuels who want to make as much profit as possible before the world descends into turmoil, rather than using the little time we have to turn things around...
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Kemi Badenoch: Tories to scrap petrol ban if they win next election
The Conservative Party leader says the policy is
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c36z84ej6e0o
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George Monbiot
29 days ago
There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing.
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Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2025/dec/10/just-0001-hold-three-times-the-wealth-of-poorest-half-of-humanity-report-finds
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Containerised fox
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I used to love playing on these as a child, whenever we went to Poole.
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Wooden 1960s animals back on display in Poole
The wooden sculptures were removed in 1997 but were donated to Poole Museum in 2023 and preserved.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyr97njgq7o
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Tories doubling down on hating the planet (promising to scrap climate legislation) and the people. Is this really going to make them more electable? What next ?
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UK will leave ECHR if Tories win election, Badenoch says
The European Convention on Human Rights has become a focal point in debates around changing immigration policy.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1mxy2j2elro
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Well BCP Council, isn't this a good reason to push back on the ludicrous housing targets for our area ?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK fifth-worst country in Europe for loss of green space to development
Exclusive: 1,680 football pitches of protected natural land in England, Wales and Northern Ireland lost in five years
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/02/uk-fifth-worst-country-in-europe-for-loss-of-green-space-to-development
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This is a promising advance ...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Carbon emissions from oil giants directly linked to dozens of deadly heatwaves for first time
Study shows how individual fossil fuel companies are making previously impossible heatwaves happen and could have to pay compensation
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/10/link-oil-giants-heatwaves-research-legal-liability
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Lovely to see quite a few patches of this unusual parasitic plant on Canford Heath yesterday. Dodder - Cuscuta epithymum.
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Another absolutely obvious and predictable Brexit outcome : increased carbon emissions where the UK imports more goods from further away....
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Value of small packages sent from China to UK more than doubles
Parcels from China that are exempt from UK import tax more than doubled in value to £3bn last year.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnv78eey8plo
4 months ago
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Pleased to see BBC coverage for the concerns of Dorset residents about this proposal to build over 3000 homes. By contrast, I am amazed at the indifference of BCP residents, (south-east Dorset), where it is planned to build 24,000 homes when there is no space!
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Dorset Council's plans for 3,750 homes move forward
Dorset Council's Local Plan would wipe out Hardy's Wessex landscape, campaigners say.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgr9dv1ydn9o
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The Guardian
5 months ago
Half of UK councils still use pesticides in public places, research finds
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Half of UK councils still use pesticides in public places, research finds
Pesticide-free movement has grown, but many local authorities still spray weedkiller linked to wildlife declines and cancer More than half of councils in the United Kingdom continue to use pesticides in parks, playgrounds, pavements, playing fields and housing estates, research revealed on Wednesday. But increasingly, local authorities are taking action to end or reduce their use of pesticides, according to research by the Pesticide Action Network. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/30/uk-councils-pesticides-weedkiller-glyphosate?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Some good news! My town, BCP (Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole), has just won some National Lottery Heritage Funding to become a Nature Town. Wahoo! I do hope that will help stop the current plan to build a gazillion houses over every remaining blade of grass ....
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Coastal towns receive funding as first Nature Towns announced
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole are collectively named the UK's first Nature Towns.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8xvnyj1205o
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This seems a better way to deal with excess waste than incinerating it to produce energy. Yet we really need to focus on the problem of generating too much waste! Regulation is required, as well as changing shopping habits.
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The 'world-first' plan to grow food above a Wiltshire landfill
A company plans to use greenhouses above pits filled with waste to grow low-cost food for locals.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4rp2yzkpeo
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George Monbiot
7 months ago
Never forget that while this government is prepared to ruin the lives of disabled people for the sake of £5bn, it is simultaneously lavishing far greater sums on pointless and destructive white elephants, of which this is just one.
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Jean-Pascal van Ypersele
7 months ago
This should be in top media headlines everywhere. Humanity clearly moves in the wrong direction: adding more and more thermal insulation around the planet, which is already too warm! It is urgent to decarbonise our economies and ways of life.
#ClimateEmergency
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Why has this taken so long to become politically acceptable? Personally, I think all new homes should have solar and that the roofs need to be oriented to make the maximum gain. 🌞
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Most new build homes must be fitted with solar panels - Miliband
The energy secretary says the move will cut energy bills, but house builders caution against burdensome regulations.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0j728gvp94o
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Grounded Community are having a summer BBQ on Sunday 15th June 12 - 3pm. Everyone's invited! If you can, please bring some food to add to the cold buffet to share. No worries if you can't, there is always enough food to go around!
www.tickettailor.com/events/groun...
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No ticket required – Midsummer BBQ and The Big Lunch – The Secret Garden
Join to celebrate The Big Lunch with a BBQ, bring & share lunch, bake-off, cake & plant sale, and midsummer craft activ...
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/groundedcommunity/1704796
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Ruth Tingay
7 months ago
Natural England is attempting to increase our costs should we lose this legal challenge. We perceive this as an attempt to intimidate us from bringing the case. They've underestimated us.
#TeamStripey
£48k raised so far, £3.8k needed to reach our target.
www.crowdjustice.com/case/legal-c...
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Legal challenge against Badger cull licences in England
Wild Justice is a not-for-profit company which takes legal cases on behalf of wildlife. CEO: Bob Elliot. Co-Directors: Chris Packham CBE & Dr Ruth Tingay.
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/legal-challenge-against-badger-cull-licences/
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Mother Jones
8 months ago
Utah legislators commissioned a study to go with their 2023 ban on gender-affirming pediatric care. Now they're trying to ignore the results.
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Utah study on trans youth care extremely inconvenient for politicians who ordered it
The state's ban on gender-affirming pediatric care "cannot be justified" by science, a two-year review concluded.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/utah-transgender-youth-affirming-care-ban/
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Sea level rises linked to climate change will be catastrophic. All coastal areas are going to be under threat, and a lot of our major cities are coastal. It's time for everyone to take all the actions they can, including lobbying governments to do more.
#climatechange
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Coastlines in danger even if climate target met, scientists warn
The goal of limiting warming to 1.5C is too high to avoid continued sea-level rise, scientists warn.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj93e40znl3o
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The Guardian
8 months ago
At least £64bn of property in England and Wales is hidden behind opaque trusts
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At least £64bn of property in England and Wales is hidden behind opaque trusts
Campaigners say secretive ownership structures are becoming the ‘go-to vehicle for kleptocrats’ The owners of nearly a quarter of a million properties in England and Wales worth a combined £64bn are hidden behind opaque trusts, according to research that prompts concern that such structures are the “go-to vehicle for kleptocrats” stashing money in Britain. The government introduced a register of property held through offshore vehicles in August 2022, revealing a string of unknown owners, including high-profile figures such as Lewis Hamilton and James Dyson, as well as sanctioned Russians, Gulf royals and the Chinese state. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/19/property-england-wales-hidden-behind-opaque-trusts?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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She's an amazing fox. Despite having lost an eye a few years ago, she continues to be a great mum. This is a bumper year for her - she has 5 cubs. No wonder she needs a snooze!
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Extinction Rebellion UK
8 months ago
BREAKING🔥 As 100+ lives are lost in catastrophic floods in DR Congo, oil execs sip cocktails at the Africa Energies Summit in London, sealing new fossil fuel deals THE INJUSTICE IS STAGGERING We demand an end to fossil fuel colonialism This isn’t a future crisis. It’s NOW!
#StopOil
#DRCongoFloods
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More than 100 dead after floods hit eastern DR Congo
Torrential rains have triggered deadly flash floods in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, killing more than 100 people and leaving many others missing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/cy4kppl3q82o
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Theresa McManus
The Guardian
8 months ago
UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development
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UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development
Whitehall analysis provides no data or research to support the government argument that environmental legislation holds up building There is very little evidence that protections for nature are a blocker to development, the government has admitted in its own impact assessment of the controversial new planning and infrastructure bill. The analysis by Whitehall officials provides no data or research to back up the government’s central argument that it is environmental legislation that holds up building. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/07/uk-government-admits-almost-no-evidence-nature-protections-block-development?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Prof Bill McGuire
9 months ago
This may sound grim, but it is a colossal underestimate of the impact of 4C heating Forget 40% poorer - this will leave billions dead and society and economy will have collapsed long before the 4C mark is reached
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Average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, new research shows
Experts say previous economic models underestimated impact of global heating – as well as likely ‘cascading supply chain disruptions’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/01/average-person-will-be-40-poorer-if-world-warms-by-4c-new-research-shows
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The Guardian
8 months ago
Thousands of playing fields ‘may be lost’ if Sport England stripped of planning role
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Thousands of playing fields ‘may be lost’ if Sport England stripped of planning role
Campaigners warn against removing group as statutory consultee as part of plan to speed up building new homes Thousands of playing fields could be lost to housing if the government strips Sport England of its role in national planning policy, campaigners have warned. As part of the national planning and infrastructure bill the government has said it wants to “speed up the delivery of new homes and critical infrastructure” by removing the powers of some of the statutory consultees on planning decisions. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/apr/29/thousands-playing-fields-lost-sport-england-stripped-planning-role?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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James Holroyd
9 months ago
The fox family that live in our garden having something to eat.
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Chris Packham
9 months ago
We all recognise smoking kills , that's why tobacco ads were banned in 2002 . Fossil fuels kill too & according to a study in BMJ , cause 5.1 million deaths per year . Help me ban fossil fuel ads for good– sign my petition to force a Parliamentary debate
govpetition.uk/700024
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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD
9 months ago
These factoids from the IPCC's Sixth Assessment were all drawn from research published before 2023. It's remarkable just how much all of these indicators have accelerated over just the last two years.
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Chris Packham
9 months ago
65% of Brits want these fossil fuel execs held personally responsible for the harm they cause , as per a Survation poll released yesterday by
@citizensarrestnet.bsky.social
. . . I’m calling on the UK Govt to reign them in and BAN fossil fuel ads – please sign my petition now
govpetition.uk/700024
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The Guardian
9 months ago
PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
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PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online A leaked document shows that vested interests may have been behind a “mud-slinging” PR campaign to discredit a landmark environment study, according to an investigation. The Eat-Lancet Commission study, published in 2019, set out to answer the question: how can we feed the world’s growing population without causing catastrophic climate breakdown? Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/11/pr-campaign-may-fuelled-food-study-backlash-leaked-document-eat-lancet?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Here's some good news for a change - the rising tide of green energy!
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40 percent of world's power clean but emissions rising - report
More clean electricity was generated in 2024 but there was a rise in the amount of coal and gas burnt too.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq80ygdd3zlo
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Severin Carrell
9 months ago
@privateeyenews.bsky.social
bowing to outside pressure and cancelling conservationist adverts? Wot? Anyone got the phone number for Street of Shame?
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The Guardian
9 months ago
Home Office spent £22,000 on failed attempt to stop Windrush report release
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Home Office spent £22,000 on failed attempt to stop Windrush report release
Hard-hitting internal investigation found roots of scandal lay in racist immigration legislation At least £22,000 was spent by the Home Office on hiring lawyers in a failed attempt to prevent the release of a hard-hitting internal report that found that the roots of the Windrush scandal lay in 30 years of racist immigration legislation, officials have acknowledged this week. The government spent three years attempting to bury a report written by a Home Office commissioned historian, which described how “the British empire depended on a racist ideology in order to function” and noted that immigration laws in the postwar period were designed to reduce the UK’s non-white population. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/04/home-office-spent-22000-on-failed-attempt-to-stop-windrush-report-release?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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So lovely to see this accolade for the Parks Foundation's 10th anniversary, and so proud to have been part of the team at the start.
#parksfoundation
#urbanwilding
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Nature makers: The Parks Foundation - Nature Towns & Cities
Advice and top tips for local authorities on how to work with a parks foundation to boost funding and enhance parks and green spaces.
https://naturetownsandcities.org.uk/meet-the-nature-makers/nature-makers-the-parks-foundation/
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In the face of recent ridiculous Tory rhetoric that the UK can't afford to meet it's climate obligations (when really we can't afford not to!!!), it is heartening to see this :
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Dorset: Extra funding for council's climate change plans
Dorset Council will spend an extra £6m to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at a faster rate.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1lp0n2jrp0o
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10 months ago
Politics affects everyone.
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Kιƚƚყ ₜₕₑ ᵥₑgₐₙ ₛₒcᵢₐₗᵢₛₜ 📎Ⓥ🌱💚🦇🌍🐠🇬🇧🇪🇺
10 months ago
Happy Sunday lovely phone family. How's everyone doing? I never expected to read a statement like this and relate it to the world right now. You'd expect it to be a lesson from the history books, yet here we are. We can't keep repeating past mistakes. Have a peaceful day 😘
#HaveCourageAndBeKind
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The Guardian
10 months ago
Exclusive: NHS England has dramatically increased recruitment of workers from states with critical medical staff shortages Brexit has left the NHS increasingly dependent on doctors and nurses from poor “red list” countries, from which the World Health Organization says it is wrong to recruit. The…
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Post-Brexit reliance on NHS staff from ‘red list’ countries is unethical, Streeting says
Exclusive: NHS England has dramatically increased recruitment of workers from states with critical medical staff shortages Brexit has left the NHS increasingly dependent on doctors and nurses from poor “red list” countries, from which the World Health Organization says it is wrong to recruit. The health service in England has hired tens of thousands of health staff from countries such as Nigeria, Ghana and Zimbabwe since the UK left the EU single market at the end of 2020. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/21/post-brexit-reliance-on-nhs-staff-from-red-list-countries-is-unethical-streeting-says?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Brent Toderian
10 months ago
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.”
#CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
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One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.
https://grist.org/biking/one-mile-on-a-bike-is-a-42-economic-gain-to-society-one-mile-driving-is-a-20-loss/
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The Guardian
10 months ago
Benefits cuts now? What’s the point of a Labour MP who votes for something so cruel, tin-eared and short-sighted? | John McDonnell
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Benefits cuts now? What’s the point of a Labour MP who votes for something so cruel, tin-eared and short-sighted? | John McDonnell
Treating disabled and sick people callously flies in the face of all the party stands for – the government must rethink its plans, writes the MP John McDonnell
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/15/benefit-cuts-labour-mps-disabled-sick?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1742099914
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The US government's war on anyone who isn't white and male is so dystopian! It is really scary.
#notofascism
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Arlington Cemetery strips content on black and female veterans from website
The Army-run cemetery said it is working to follow Trump's orders on ending diversity while restoring information.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz03gjnxe25o
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Andrew Ahern
10 months ago
“Billions of people will lose their livelihoods and economic output reduced by up to 34% if the Earth is allowed to warm by 3 degrees Celsius this century, but investing less than 2% of GDP now could eliminate most of those losses, a groundbreaking new report found”
www.forbes.com/sites/davidr...
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Climate Inaction Could Cost 1/3 Of Global GDP This Century, BCG Warns
The Big 3 consulting firm finds that most harms come from productivity losses, but also reveals how nations could avoid 90% of climate damage.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/2025/03/13/climate-inaction-could-cost-13-of-global-gdp-by-2100-bcg-warns/
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Soil Association
10 months ago
Alarming decision to halt Sustainable Farming Incentives - we’re worried for all farmers & wildlife "This damaging move by government seriously risks the viability of the organic sector & threatens the supply of sustainable British food” says our CEO Helen Browning 🔗
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Environmental groups react to suspension of SFI scheme - Farmers Weekly
Farmers and environmental organisations are reeling after the Labour government’s decision to stop accepting new applications for the Sustainable Farming
https://fwi.co.uk/news/farm-policy/environmental-groups-react-to-suspension-of-sfi-scheme?fw_source=home_transition
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Jan Rosenow
10 months ago
Next time someone tells you that the energy transition cannot be done remember: In 2012 almost 40% of UK electricity was coal. Since 1 October 2024 it is zero. This is the moment Britains last coal power plant shut down on 30 September - the end of 142 years of coal. HT
@neso-energy.bsky.social
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Dr. Aaron Thierry
10 months ago
2024 was the hottest year on record 📈 TV news coverage of climate change decreased by 25% 📉
#EndClimateSilence
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Soil Association
10 months ago
✂️ Cuts to the farming budget are bad news for farmers and bad news for nature With 70% of the UK farmed, working with farmers is the best chance we have of seeing our wildlife recover 👉 Sign the RSPB’s petition: tell the Government that nature can’t afford a pay cut
soilassociation.co/43jEX2R
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I remember the start of this project - it is great to see it finally up and running. Hopefully it will help Dorset embrace a greener future!
#renewables
#Dorset
#Infinergy
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Dorset: Quarry wind farm in Wareham starts generating power
The four turbines are said to be capable of generating enough electricity for 5,200 homes.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1d4n1kendpo
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