"rolling PR campaign with a spreadsheet attached to it" 👌🏼

Live in a flat in #Lewisham, or involved in a housing association? Always wanted solar but seemed too tricky or complex to get off the ground? >50% of Lewisham residents live in flats, yet only ~1% of domestic solar installs are on flats. We want to change this! buff.ly/H7EaIUr

Selce is among the signatories to a letter to the chancellor today, highlighting that potential cuts to home insulation / retrofit funding will only harm those in fuel poverty, alongside climate goals www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

To quote the CEO of Palantir, how dare people "try to call the AI revolution into question?" We need a schadenfreude emoji www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This month’s newsletter is going out today, this month featuring: 💡 4th Solar Share Offer Hits Target 💡 Selce's Formula for Successful Retrofit 💡 Lewisham Community Energy Fund: Solar for Flats Call Out... and much more Read in full & subscribe at: buff.ly/MAF6ooJ

Selce's Formula for Successful Retrofit 🏠 In mid-October, the news was full of stories about poor quality retrofit work installed under the ECO4 or GBIS schemes. 💡 How we minimise the risk of poor installation, and maximise the number of people that can benefit. selce.org.uk/selces-formu...

In Card City, everyone is welcome 💙💡 Will you grow a tree? Or design a city vehicle for a better future? Our Card City project made an appearance at Penge East Community Association (PECA)'s community day earlier this month, with more than 300 people coming along.

Selce is a finalist in the Community Energy Awards 2025 🎉 for: - Fuel Poverty Action Award - Community Energy Excellence (L) Full shortlist at: communityenergyengland.org/events/commu... #CEAwards2025 @commenergyengland.bsky.social

🍄‍🟫 season - one you can write with and the other ???

"Horniman Primary School in Forest Hill, now saves around £9,000 annually in electricity costs. Edmund Waller Primary is saving a total of £20,000 through more energy efficient, LED lighting." selce.org.uk/local-green-...

Local Green Energy That's Powering a Better Future for All selce.org.uk/local-green-...

We've reached 54% of our target for Selce's 4th solar share offer! 🎉 Massive thanks to everyone who has invested so far 💙

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Share offer update: we've already reached 25% of our target! 🎉 Our 4th solar share offer aims to fund solar at Invicta Primary in SE3, & is projected to save the school £100k over 20 years. We encourage members to get their investments in soon, or risk missing out: www.selce.org.uk/shares

Selce’s latest Energy Advice newsletter went out yesterday - with the latest grants, support & tips to keep energy bills low. Read in full here: buttondown.com/energy-advic... Or sign up selce.org.uk/selce-newsle... and be the first to read future updates like this and more.

Invest in community. Invest in supporting local people. Invest in a cleaner, fairer future. Invest in solar at Invicta Primary School in Blackheath. Projected to save the school more than £100,000 over 20 years. www.selce.org.uk/shares

What is a Community Energy Share Offer? – A Guide "Cooperatives are democratic organisations. They all have a ‘one member, one vote’ setup, irrespective of their financial contribution." selce.org.uk/what-is-a-co...

Very excited to share that I'm writing a new book, THE GHOSTS OF CHALK COUNTRY - about the loss of England's chalk downland: a tale of flowers, fascism & freedom. To be published by @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social in April 2027: www.thebookseller.com/rights/willi... Website: ghostsofchalkcountry.org

Six Low Cost Measures to Save on Energy at Home 🏠💡 As we move towards the colder months, we cover 6 low cost energy saving measures you can install in your home to reduce energy and save money - from draught excluders, to LED light bulbs, to water saving shower heads selce.org.uk/six-low-cost...

Thanks to everyone who led workshops, stalls, came along or took part in any way at Growing the Alternatives last weekend. We couldn't have put it better than London’s Deputy Mayor for Communities & Social Justice @debbieweekesb.bsky.social kicking off the event. ⬇️🎥 Together we are stronger 💙

I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore. So I wrote a blog about ten things you can do *right now* to help defeat Farage, Musk, and rightwing populism. From scrutinising Reform councillors to demanding the UK Govt leave X - get involved: guyshrubsole.substack.com/p/ten-things...

Yes, It’s the Guns. It’s Also the Phones. www.liberalcurrents.com/yes-its-the-...

This Satuday 13th, from 11 am at the Albany, London SE8 4AG Lots of great workshops and talks! 👇 www.thealbany.org.uk/shows/growin...

Climate journalist & @salamandernews.org co-founder @dorothystein.bsky.social will be chairing a workshop on tackling climate disinformation at our next event, Growing the Alternatives, on Sat 13 Sept at the Albany in Deptford. ⬇️some thoughts from Dorothy

3 lesser known facts about solar, from Jason's 10 years' experience in renewable energy across all scales and technologies. Join us on 13/9 at Growing the Alternatives - inc Jason's renewables workshop 🎟️ bit.ly/foca-selce

“Selce were very helpful throughout the whole process, making it much easier than anticipated. We can already see a difference in our bills within 6 months of installation and the environment for learning has improved because of the LEDs.” buff.ly/iw4nAyK

Our latest newsletter is hitting inboxes today - including news and updates on... 🏠 Warm Homes Discount deadline 🌱 our Growing the Alternatives event on 13 Sept 💡 Waterside Academy LED lighting & energy advice project 🏠 5 things to do to prepare your home for Winter

This is a great piece on how Youtube is wrecking kids media (and all other media too). I'm sure treating the attention of little kids as one more resource to exploit for ad dollars will be disastrous in even the medium term www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Soon. That's the lens through which the AI vendors see AI in terms of monetization. Subscription-based services alone cannot meet the expectations of investors.

“Our solar panels make a surplus. That surplus is used to finance our fuel poverty alleviation work… which saves our clients on average £350 per year, which is significant.” Selce is featured in new Chilean documentary film, The Other Current from Energía Colectiva in Chile buff.ly/uIzbY7V

A few weeks ago, Bilqis & @dermotmckibbin.bsky.social from Selce attended Bromley Climate Conference at St Olave's Grammar School. It was great to be speak about community energy - especially our solar for schools project, saving money to reinvest in essential services across SE London

School’s out ➡️ but the Heat Doctor is in ⬅️ Longstanding issues with your boiler? Don’t wait until it gets cold again to sort - Get ahead of the queue, sort the problem, and relax… This is a free service for South East London residents only. You are eligible for a visit by the Heating Doctor if:

In this month’s Selce newsletter - going out today: 💡 LED Lighting in Lewisham - saving £20k per year at one primary school, along with 8 tonnes of CO2 🎉 We are VERY excited to be announcing the Festival of Climate Action in September and more...

"It’s very clear that there’s this massive social divide in our society & the people at the bottom are getting left further behind." Camilla Berens is an environmental activist, writer & Selce co-founder Read her account of Selce's origins & what we learned along the way

A school in Lewisham is saving £20k per year on its electricity bills - with zero upfront cost - and all through the power of LED lighting

Using a boat with a metal hull as an example, our CEO Gi explains some of the principles of excess heat, and how to counteract them in this LinkedIn post ⬇️

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Prob worth reading before you watch that next Adam Curtis thing bristoliver.substack.com/p/shifty-stuff

Next up: BBC bans presenters running podcasts on whether air conditioning works, or if gravity exists. All down to 'live arguments' By which we mean fossil fuel lobbying cc @desmog.bsky.social

Virtual reality: The widely-quoted media experts who are not what they seem great reporting from @pressgazette.co.uk @dominicponsford.bsky.social @robwaugh.bsky.social pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

Trump has unintentionally fracked fracking ⬇️

Busy busy bumbles 🐝

@buffer.com you still seem to only allow BS videos up to 1 minute... but they allow up to 3m now? Just checking if you knew... thanks

Ever considered getting solar panels on your home, but don't know where to start? @seloncommenergy.bsky.social has a 1 hour webinar on Tuesday evening, covering all you need to know, explained in clear, non-technical terms: 🌅 Tues 4 March 7-8pm. 🎟️ Book your free place - bit.ly/41oEYjw.

Some of the things I've been working on / supporting in new role with @seloncommenergy.bsky.social ⬇️

"it will be vomited over by unclosable video adverts, countless pop-ups, sparse butchered text interspersed a par at a time between display ads & the internet's vapid guts at the bottom of the piece" iandunt.substack.com/p/journalism...

£500 to insulate your loft the easy way 🏠💡 The Love Lofts grant is now £500 for homeowners in both Greenwich and Lewisham to help insulate your loft. For a limited time only! 💡 Lower your bills, save energy, save money! 🥰 Save up to 25% heat loss escaping from your roof & make your home cosy.

When your own AI thinks your brand is a semi-rude word, computer says no.