📣 Parents. If cars make your walk or cycle to school feel unsafe, that's not okay. We need your photos of the school run! The more people can see how awful it is out there - and how unsafe it is for our children - the more power we have. DM pix or tag us in a post. #streetsforkids #schoolrun

2025 global climate highlights are out: 🌡️ 2025 was 3rd warmest year on record, 1.47ºC above the preindustrial level 📈 2023-2025 is the first three year period above 1.5ºC (according to ERA5) 🌍 The last 11 years have been the warmest 11 years on record See: climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima... ⚒️🧪🌊

Flanders sees a mobility shift: 51% of new bikes are electric & cycling risk dropped 30% since 2017. 🇧🇪 Investments hit €300m/year, aiming for 30% of all trips by bike by 2040. #ActiveTravel #Flanders 🔗 fietsberaad.be/documenten/f...

Flanders, with a population about 1/10th of the UK, invests €485m/year in cycling or €71 per capita per year. For the UK this would mean a £4,265m per year (or £3,609m/y for England)! Consider this the next time the government tries to sell a few £100m as a significant investment.

It seems like €300m/year is the Flemish investment at regional level. The brochure in the link adds up the local and provincial numbers to around €485m/year. That's a whopping €71 per capita per year!

Labour Party friends: I cannot in good conscience vote for this agenda and nor should you

If you are thinking of following suit, here's a list of EU tech alternatives: european-alternatives.eu

Ghent is highlighted in @thewaroncars.bsky.social #LifeAfterCars as a City that used a thoughtful traffic circulation plan to boost cycling in the central city @bicycledutch.bsky.social described it here youtu.be/rf0chvYf5Yo?...

Reading Bike Hub is all about sustainability and is getting an exciting new mural to represent this. Recognise those stripes? @edhawkins.org @uniofreading.bsky.social

📣 The 2025/6 University League is here! We ranked 147 UK universities against ethics and sustainability criteria. 📈 🔍 Find out how your university scored! 👇 peopleandplanet.org/university-l...

'Life being stressful is not an illness' - technically speaking neither is breathing in coal dust for a 12 hour shift but we still recognise blacklung as an illness. Life in a harmful environment makes you ill and people who don't know that shouldn't be doctors.

So, uhm, first rejoin the carriageway and dismount there, or first dismount and rejoin the carriageway on foot??? 🤷‍♂️

A Labour government passed the Equality Act. A Labour government was in power when the Supreme Court interpreted it to not mean what ministers at the time were clear it was intended to mean. The Labour government response should have been to legislate to fix it. Not doing so was a cowardly betrayal.

Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society: Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.

"This is a really obvious thing the Government should do: tax wealth fairly." @elliechowns.bsky.social outlines what the Green Party would have done differently at the Budget to cut bills by taxing wealth fairly.

Profoundly infuriating. Every single barrel of oil pumped moves us deeper into dangerous climate change. The science is absolutely clear about this: the carbon budget to limit to 1.5°C is practically gone. Tipping points loom. We need rapid fossil fuel PHASE OUT. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It'd be cool if the "increasing the cost of motoring hurts poor people" people cared anything like as much about cost to people who rely on public transport - who are disproportionately likely to be poor and disabled, and who consistently face far greater increases in cost.

There's always money for more driving

Hugely disappointing, with world now on track to yet more heating & chaos, & poorest hit first & hardest. This process needs radically rethinking - meantime it’s vital that the Brazil-led coalition of the willing urgently delivers on plans to leave fossil fuels in the ground #COP30

The footway parking ban in England consultation closed 5 years ago tomorrow. The Tories' inaction is now Labour's inaction. www.gov.uk/government/c...

At the Budget, the Green Party's message is clear: Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.

At COP30 in Belém do Pará, more than 50,000 people made history with a clear, unified message: “It is time to bury fossil fuels and build a clean, just future.” Today, we symbolically laid fossil fuels to rest. ✊

Labour’s latest attack on asylum seekers is cruel & counterproductive. How does it help community cohesion to hold threat of deportation over vulnerable people? We don’t need an arms race with the hard right over asylum, we need safe routes & European cooperation #bbclaurak

Why was #CelebrityTraitors one big SUV ad?! SUVs like the Defender are three times more likely to kill a child under 10 in the event of a crash, compared to a small car. This form of advertising needs challenging. #AirPollution #RoadDanger

Airport expansion and the UK #NetZero target - @greenjennyjones.bsky.social asks why is government not making frequent fliers pay their way while cutting train fares? #ClimateEmergency www.parliamentlive.tv/Lords

Tech Won’t Save Us is celebrating 300 episodes! 🎉 This week @parismarx.com took over the show to discuss an issue that’s been motivating a lot of his work this year: the problem with our dependence on US tech and why we need digital sovereignty! Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/300_...

I was included in the @cyclinguk.bsky.social 2017 list of 100 women in cycling and am dismayed to see their transphobia. The Supreme Court ruling may have enabled organisations to be transphobic but it does not mandate that. Cycling UK can and should be as inclusive as they say they wish to be.

In the UK, SUVs accounted for 63% of new sales in 2024. The proliferation of SUVs is one aspect of “carspreading,” whereby cars are becoming steadily larger over time and with this comes potential harms to health 🧵 www.bmj.com/content/391/...

"Worried that both the public and right-leaning parties were falling out of love with net zero, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer dithered over whether to join leaders for climate talks in Brazil this year." What a waste of space he is.

🚨 BREAKING: The government has tabled their plan to restrict repeat protests. Demonstrations could now banned based on the 'cumulative disruption' that previous protests have caused in the area - regardless of if they have been organised by the same people or not. This is worse than we feared.

Even a big far-right vote couldn’t give the far-right total control, because the Dutch democracy promotes cooperation. Here in the UK, just one-third of the vote could give Nigel Farage a huge majority of MPs. Our democracy isn't fit for 21st-century politics. We need Proportional Representation.

I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]

Yes, it's scary for children on our roads. But putting a 20mph limit outside a school does NOT fix the problem. Children need a friendly, safer 20mph limit on their whole route from home to school. It's why 20's Plenty should be community wide. bit.ly/4o4jwdA

The government backs Heathrow expansion — but it’s not all or most of Britain that wants to fly more. Just 3% of people take 30% of all flights. A few frequent flyers get the perks, while everyone else gets the noise, air pollution and climate chaos. #ClimateJustice #FairTravel

Here we go again. Another concocted row over climate policy that damages investor confidence and policy clarity, but practically changes very little. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Bloody hell

@uniofreading.bsky.social an idea for our fantastic Harris Garden?

Who will be next?

How can regions long focused on floods prepare for droughts? A cross-border study between 🇧🇪 Belgium and 🇳🇱 the Netherlands turned the Aa of Weerijs catchment into a living lab, showing how Nature-Based Solutions like wetland restoration can boost resilience. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.nb...

The government want more coercive powers for the state against protests, and the main opposition party wants more coercive powers for the state against migrants. Our political-media culture continues in a loop where the response to every perceived problem is yet more coercive powers for the state.

Just when you thought Keir Starmer's Labour Party couldn't get more illiberal, or more like the Tories... "Change", my left foot. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The EU is forging ahead, with tighter NO2 limits set last year, aiming to meet 20ug/m3 NO2 by 2030. That’s half the UK legal limit! We are lagging behind our neighbours, and our children’s lungs are bearing the brunt. We need the Government to commit to reaching the WHO #AirPollution guidelines.

But supporting Palestine Action makes you a terrorist. Got it.

Aviation expansion is a disaster for the climate crisis. Anyone who's been paying any attention to this shambles of a Labour Govenrment knows they don't care about people in poverty, don't care about nature nor for the planet. Just big business & their own interests. #Gatwick

it's one of our favourites too! Reading has a long history of welcoming sanctuary seekers, and we are proud to officially be a Museum of Sanctuary, offering a warm welcome to all. www.readingmuseum.org.uk/get-involved/museum-sanctuary @themerl.bsky.social @readingcouncil.bsky.social

«A Bruxelles, la demande de stationnements vélos sécurisés explose, portée par l’augmentation continue du nombre de cyclistes. Résultat : plus de 14.000 personnes sont en attente d’une solution auprès de parking.brussels » www.lesoir.be/art/d-202509...

This is a huge step, with Oxford set to join a small but select number of cities which have implemented a congestion charge.

NEW Has the government overreached in using terrorism law against Palestine Action? A disclosed MI5 document indicates that the basis for proscription may be weak By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...