I went to buy vegie burgers, but then I realised it was made of vegetables, but is also a burger… so confusing! #NoConfusion #VeggieBurgerFreedom

This weekend, WePlanet coordinated a protest against the closure of Doel-2 near Antwerp. The owner, French energy company Engie, wants to get rid of their nuclear assets as they'll be more profitable selling gas for the foreseeable future, to burn when renewables don't deliver. Don't stop me now!

Press should be reporting accordingly. This whole "X countries support A roadmap" is just bad journalism. So far, "X countries supporting CREATING a roadmap". Whether they'll support and approve one in the next days is another story. Including if it's a roadmap at all.

As expected, overnight, they dropped fossil fuels from the drafts AGAIN. You can't make this discussion happen last minute during COP30 just to look good (or in hopes that it will lead to a map that lets developing country oil producers drill for longer). You have to want to focus on it!

"LNG or natural gas is not just a transitional fuel. It is a backbone. Otherwise no one is going to sign a 20 year contract. 20 years long means what? It's not a transition" - CPC Corp 2025 is the year where the fossil fuel industry says the quiet part out loud shows.acast.com/65e16a5bcedd...

Heads up: you can still get an extra scoop of rental reforms if you donate to Better Renting before noon this coming Thursday! Ethical Jobs is very generously matching every donation made, up to $5000. If you've ever thought about donating and don't do it now, that's like throwing money away!

Findings are in: turns out Ethical Jobs is matching all donations to Better Renting this month! We want to create twice as much trouble for landlords who don't treat renting like the essential service it is next year, so doubling our donations is a huge help! Link is below 👇

The National Party’s decision to abandon their net-zero commitment must be seen for what it is – a betrayal of Australia’s future prosperity. Our full statement: www.weplanetaustralia.org/post/nationa...

Tobacco companies are trying to sabotage international measures to control tobacco use, says this very forthright official statement. It lists the industry's tactics: inserting its sympathisers into national delegations, astroturfing, misleading research etc. Good to see this nastiness called out.

@australianlabor.bsky.social Enviro Minister Murray Watt giving off humungous 'we are all looking for the guy who did this' energy

BREAKING: The US and Saudi Arabia have succeeded getting a majority of countries to postpone the decision to adopt a carbon charge on pollution by one year.

It's not hard to understand — renewables: yes; clearing forests: no. What about clearing forests for renewables? Still no.

Well…school finishes and the gates are thrown open! Brilliant, clever work by BVN architects making an entirely permeable public ground plane, courts and playground available after school hours! Green Square Public School and City of Sydney 👏👏👏

Biodiversity Council co-chief Hugh Possingham has told The Australia, that "you can site all these renewable energy facilities by not destroying forest" but confirmed that current environmental rules were allowing native forests to be cleared for projects.

@australiannuclear.bsky.social conference kicking off! Can’t wait to read ‘Atomic Rise And Fall - The Australian Atomic Energy Commission’ by Clarence Hardy! The book’s jacket notes that it includes a look at the unsuccessful attempt to build Australia’s first nuclear power station at Jervis Bay.

Why has the EU Parliament banned the use of the words "burger" and "sausage" for foods made from plants? Seriously, can anyone tell me why? Vegie burgers have been in the supermarkets, labelled as such, for decades. There was #NoConfusion then, or now.

Pretty weird that data centres entering the national consciousness was both necessary and sufficient for people to start talking about the need for more clean electricity. We deadass forgot the thing we all agreed on ten years ago, that electrifying everything is step one of the energy transition.

Labor paid a consultancy firm for a roboreport into the unlawful robodole compliance model & it was left to the media & the public to identify errors arising from inappropriate use of generative AI in the report. If they had shame they'd be embarrassed. #AusPol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

🔥 IT'S BACK: To mark International Tenants’ Day, we’re launching another season of our Renter Lab citizen science project! We’re opening applications for Renter Researchers in NSW to help us track just how unbelievably hot renter homes get in the summertime.

🚨 Next week the EU votes on banning words like burger, sausage & chicken from plant-based foods. This is nothing short of government engaging in cartel behaviour with the meat industry right as we need to transition away from animal agriculture to fix the climate crisis. Act now!

WePlanet Australia members vote to adopt a policy of advocating for Universal Nuclear Weapon Disarmament. A 🧵

Let’s not be remembered as the generation who saw it coming and looked away. Let’s be the ones who faced the truth, and did something about it. We’re just getting started. Join us. weplanetaustralia.org/join

BREAKING: The governments of Canada, Australia and the UK have formally recognised the Palestinian state. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lcqb2s

We’d love for you to join us at WePlanet Australia’s 2025 conference in Sydney on Saturday, September 27th. Learn how together we can build food and energy systems that serve everyone and protect our shared environment. Will you join us? www.weplanetaustralia.org/event-detail...

standing ovations for the lovely people who fight this tiny battle for more green in the city 🥳

Lumina Domestica (the Lamp Museum) in Bruges is impressive for its huge collection of lamps. The only downside is that there are so many lamps. I wanted more context and slightly fewer lamps.

I recently visited the wonderful Museum of Industry in Ghent, Belgium, with its exhibitions on the history of the textiles and printing industries. The impressive collection shows how people across centuries solved increasingly complex problems with increasingly complex machinery.

Media Release: Nuclear for Australia labels net zero plan a COP-out, calls for a clean grid https://www.nuclearforaustralia.com/nuclear_for_australia_labels_net_zero_plan_a_cop-out

Australia, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand and Norway all present a target with an absurd "range". This is just..................not how a target works? Like, are they going to kill climate policies if emissions fall too much? Not a coincidence the worst greenwashers are the ones doing it........

📰 Extra extra! The first dispatch from our letters-to-the-editor blitz has hit newsstands everywhere! 🌟 Our successful writer was Madeline: you may remember her as the renter who went to Parliament with photos of her ceiling, which had collapsed overnight & took months for her landlord to fix.

Fossil fuels are harmful in a million different ways, but the immediate impacts they have has been broadly understated If climate change were a hoax their severe, deadly health impacts would alone be enough justification to still get rid of them climateandhealthalliance.org/wp-content/u...

Veteran financial journalist Alan Kohler captures the reality: if Australia is serious about growing the economy, protecting our standard of living, and tackling the climate crisis, the Albanese government must put dogma and politics aside and finally accept nuclear energy as part of the solution.

It's bad enough that marketing convinced people to reject GM crops or anything grown with "synthetic chemicals", regardless of whether those crops are better for the environment.

@weplanetint.bsky.social’s #RebootFood Festival is kicking off! Opening remarks from Lauri Muranen, co-founder of @ekomodernismi.bsky.social: our movement's aim is to decouple living standards from environmental impact. Ecomodernism has enabled a YIMBY attitude!

Nuclear energy is clean, reliable and affordable. That's what we learned first hand while visiting the Olkilouto nuclear power station in Western Finland. It's time for Australia to lift the ban on nuclear energy: act.weplanet.org/overturn-aus...

Olkilouto could power roughly 5 million Aussie homes each day - emissions free. The first 2 reactors began operating in 1979 & 1982. For over 40 years they've been providing clean energy. Planned to operate until 2038, with plans to extend that further. Nuclear offers decades of clean energy.

Eye-opening session at #MadeAndGrown2025! Precision fermentation isn’t just for the familiar dairy products on our supermarket shelves… All G Foods is using this technology to produce lactoferrin, a high-value protein found in milk at concentrations below 0.1%, and used in infant formula.

The ‘Plants as Factories’ and ‘Re-designing Biology’ panels at #MadeAndGrown2025 offered insights… and hope! Australia entered synthetic biology a little late, but is accelerating hard. We have the talent — the sector needs support and coordination to flourish.

Fantastic opening panel at Made & Grown: The Future of Food at ANU #MadeAndGrown2025 Food, agriculture and biotechnology are inseparable in the 21st century. Australia’s own innovations are making food better for us, better for the environment, and more resilient in a changing climate!

✨I hope we all make it ✨

Cultivated meat is produced in a food production facility. Producing slaughter-free meat in this way strengthens food security, reduces the risk of zoonotic disease & animal suffering, and uses only a fraction of the land and water. That means more land and water can be left for people and nature.

🛑 Animal agriculture is the biggest driver of deforestation in Australia & our largest source of agricultural emissions. >50% of land & 70% of agricultural emissions come from animal ag. Good news is that there is now a cleaner, healthier alternative available, and more options are on the way.

SPECIAL: Bad Idea #15 "Just Stop Cooking" Mark Lynas is joined by Patricia Nanteza, WePlanet’s Africa Lead, to expose one of the most dangerous and overlooked injustices in climate policy today: the effective ban on clean cooking solutions in sub-Saharan Africa.

Bad idea #12 'there’s nothing down there' In this timely episode, Mark Lynas speaks with marine conservationist @profcallum.bsky.social‬, Professor at the University of Exeter and lead author of a new Nature commentary calling for full protection of the high seas.

Bad Idea #3 "We shouldn’t even talk about geoengineering!" In this thought-provoking episode, Mark Lynas is joined by science writer and The Planet Remade author @eaterofsun.bsky.social for a candid conversation about solar geoengineering. youtu.be/IyXkp04lebI

This week we are wrapping up season one of our 'Saving the World from Bad Ideas' podcast. @marklynas.bsky.social is joined by producer @robdeschutter.bsky.social to explore the concept of bad ideas: are we only challenging others' bad ideas, or also our own? This seasons episodes🧵

I just had cultured meat for the first time. Quail Parfait cigar. It was very good. Not as surprising as I expected. Super easy eating and pleasing.

I grew up eating quails and fois gras - and have not eaten meat for nearly 35 years now. I am so looking forward to trying all of this.

Oh my dudes. It was profound to eat meat, but not from an animal that has to be slaughtered. At least one good thing we were promised from the future is here, now.

"Is rewilding just about wolves and wilderness, headset against farmers and rural communities, or something much more hopeful and human?" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bad-idea-17-rewilding-vs-the-people-with-rebecca-wrigley/id1804617562?i=1000716605194