"Early" 😭 www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

As #COP30 approaches, we’ve synthesised the latest research on #climate tipping points – both positive and negative – into Global Tipping Points Report 2025. 160 authors, from 23 countries and 87 institutions contributed. global-tipping-points.org

Guess what #1 is, #bunchfam? It's not all or nothing. But skipping those short car trips makes a big difference. #carfreechallenge

Such a depressing situation when solid wall insulation can have such an incredible positive impact when installed properly. Designing the policy to deliver it as cheaply as possible without appropriate safeguards was never going to end well: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tory Councillors Demand 1,174 Road Casualty Rate is Maintained in City & Westminster www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...

Systems are only inclusive when shaped by the people who use them. We are Disabled people asking others like us what works, what doesn’t, and what needs to change in concessions schemes. Read our recommendations to #UnlockTransportAccess here: https://bit.ly/4mYO6nA

Retrofitting insulation should create secure skilled jobs, reduce bills and improve people's quality of life. Tragically, the Tories mismanaged it so badly that unscrupulous rogue traders have destroyed homes - now an expensive job to fix it. Such incompetence: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Europe’s warmth should serve people, not polluters and oligarchs.

If someone invented a miracle pill that reduced your risk of cancer, heart disease and strokes as well as boosting mood, memory, and lifespan it would be the most popular drug ever. Except we already have it and it's called exercise, and most people can't be arsed doing it.

I live 5min walking distance from 2 supermarkets, 2 pubs, a cinema and numerous restaurants, 10min from town, 15min from work, 30min bus ride to nearest city. Despite this, car-owing zealots seem to think I'm an idiot because I don't spend £200+ a month on a vehicle I don't need.

“It is highly energy-efficient, costs almost nothing, reduces congestion and pollution, and obviates the need for huge car parks. Yet it is not the self-driving electric car, as tech moguls and car industry executives imagined. Rather, it is the humble bicycle.” www.economist.com/internationa...

Amazing. 100,000 members. A new chapter for @greenparty.org.uk, and huge thanks to @zackpolanski.bsky.social, @mothinali.bsky.social and @rachelmillward.bsky.social our new leadership team. join.greenparty.org.uk

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The UK needs an expanding rail network. www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

3+ years #carfree for me too 🚶🏻‍♀️🚲🚌🚖 Walk, ride, public transport, and the occasional car share (Co-Wheels) or taxi when needed. Honestly? It’s nowhere near as hard as we thought it would be Still saving money, still getting places, still feeling good. #CarFree #NoRegrets #ActiveTravel #BrumbyBike

Climate change? Nah, it's just a hoax, isn't it? (For clarification, this message is ironic)

👏 Something for Bristol to be proud of. Not sure there are quite 900 groups here but there are a lot and many local bars, Talk Clubs etc have their own groups. Wonder how key the harbour is to sustaining these social running clubs? It provides a central, all-weather, traffic free and flat circuit

Switzerland is “rich in something vanishingly rare in the rest of the world: common sense. This is most apparent in the way the Swiss get around…a model of sensible, sustainable — and yes, even enjoyable — transit. It’s simply the best transportation system in the world.” Via @taras-grescoe.com

Raft of legal changes to back new cycling infrastructure signed into law A wide range of legal changes relating to cycling and other transport-related changes have been signed into law by the Minister for Transport, Darragh O'Brien. The changes range from giving legislative backing to relatively…

A perfect illustration of which "lifestyle" actually imposes itself on public space, public safety, and the public purse.

There are 26,000 polar bears left on the planet. By the end of the century, climate change could bring them to extinction as the melting of the Arctic increases: buff.ly/3HnL4Yi There is no time to wait. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #biodiversity #rewilding #SDGs

When public transport runs at 7mph but the Mayor wants to spend 3/4 billion on saving drivers a few seconds, you know what their real priorities are. Always follow the money, not the press release.

It's 2025. How on earth are there STILL people who believe widening roads will fix congestion? Lewis Mumford said in 1955 "Building more roads to prevent congestion is like a fat man loosening his belt to prevent obesity” Why don't you follow evidence?

Alt text: Cars. Lots of them. Queuing on an American spaghetti of tarmac.

Wonderful! Another little step towards reducing motor traffic in Oxford.

I think it's always interesting to reframe stats to the cost of NOT doing the thing.

80% SNP voters in the 2024 General Election say climate and the environment important to them in determining how to vote www.thenational.scot/news/2553465...

Subcontinental solar surge. India races ahead with record solar surge, installing 17.5 GW between April and August 2025 - more than double last year’s pace. The boom is driven by cheap modules, strong demand and a 143 GW project pipeline. https://f.mtr.cool/ncbzkponcc

Everyone should call it Farage’s Brexit. He should be inseparable from its failure.

Loved welcoming the @londoncycling.bsky.social women’s network to Isljngton Town Hall last night. Lots of idea sharing, networking and general joy about riding bikes. 😍

Boarding the @CalSleeper from London Euston to Glasgow Central…

I saw him in Berlin & agree! Such a great energy & party atmosphere, amazing!

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Shocking how can DfT claim “We acted quickly to set up an investigation into defeat devices.” So much unnecessary harm done and still being done by automakers. And this is just one aspect over large over powered cars are another.

More harm

Good article re new bike boom. Preferred original headline “Two wheels good four wheels bad”. Nice observation about urban China rediscovering cycling years after the communist revolution - more likely to be a fancy @bromptonbicycle.bsky.social than a Flying Pigeon of the communist revolution days.

Really important be careful out there and if you can vaccinate. Interesting observation at current rate it will be 2050 before waiting times come down to 2010 levels

"Untethering society from the automobile will be a Herculean task. "Cars ruin everything,” warns a section of Life After Cars. If so, the first step toward reversing the damage is getting more people to recognize the problem." 👇

Farage's deputy Richard Tice accepted stay at French Riviera home of Lubov Chernukhin, listing the purpose as “discussing gas power in the UK” Reform are wining & dining corporate fossil fuel interests with their pledges to smash climate policy: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If you want an explanation of why China is kicking the EU car industry to the curb, look no further than the criminally knuckle dragging EU car makers demanding new loopholes so they don't have to meet any meaningful low emission targets for cars in the EU. www.ft.com/cIfontent/5a...

there is no better time to ride.

Can we do this in Uk please?!

In this clip, Wheels4Me loan recipient, Jeremy tells us how having access to cycling has helped him reconnect with his family & get back to doing things that were important to him. Watch the full video on YouTube & find out how you can trial a cycle yourself at wheels4me.co.uk youtu.be/q-ZnnXd3M2s

"Though robotaxis have notched up impressive growth, they look ploddingly pedestrian compared with far zippier pedal-powered rivals. [Waymo] proudly proclaims that its cars do around 250k trips a week. Yet in NYC alone that number of trips is made every three days using the city’s bikeshare scheme."

🗓️ On 27 November, top UK experts will brief MPs and leaders from business, culture, faith and the media on the escalating climate and nature crisis. 📍 Is your MP attending the @nebriefing.bsky.social? Use the postcode checker at www.nebriefing.org to check—and if not, email them to ask.

Like a canary in coal mine…

Lets be honest, taking a bicycle on a train is an absolute pain in the arse, even folding ones. It’s difficult to get them on and off, the storage is extremely poor, and buying tickets is way too complicated. It didn’t need to be this way, that used to put them in a guards van. Wide doors, simple

Talking of car bloat… It’s worth remembering this is the limit in weight, which includes passengers and luggage btw, for UK license holder who qualified in or after 1997 Some UK drivers may already be braking the law www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/a...