Do you live in Dymock & Bromseberrow Parish? Here's an invitation for you... fod-fel-2.eventbrite.co.uk #communityenergy #freeworkshop

👩‍👩‍👧‍👦 Energy solidarity starts local. Explore practical ways to make your community’s energy transition truly just, inclusive and resilient. The CEES Energy Solidarity Toolkit brings together valuable insights and lessons from CEES partners’ experiences: → energycommunityplatform.eu/resources/en...

You may have seen the term 'Local Power Plan' circulating this week, but what does it actually mean? We've created this quick overview explaining the government's new plans to invest £1 billion into local energy projects. #LocalPowerPlan #CommunityEnergy #RenewableEnergy

The publication of the #LocalPowerPlan - backed by £1 billion - represents the largest public investment in #CommunityEnergy in UK history. It’s a decisive step towards putting real power, ownership and long-term economic benefit into the hands of communities. This is just the beginning... 1/

#LocalPowerPlan #CommunityEnergy

Gorse flowers and hazel catkins to brighten your evening #spring is near.

I am so incredibly proud of my country and my people now. I was thinking about this four years ago, in those heavy days of anxious anticipation for the darkest hour and the moment of truth of February 2022. And I feel it with even greater pride today.

Is it "Local-Power Plan" or "Local Power-Plan"? It's a question I have not seen asked (or answered), but with the announcement yesterday, I'm going with "Local-Power Plan" now on! It is time for everyone to have the opportunity for a slice of the energy cake. #communityenergy #localpowerplan

“Do we want a technology that normalizes and amplifies deception? That transforms privacy into a commodity? A society where a techno-oligarch can interfere, as one of them did yesterday, in the…phones of millions of citizens to tell them lies? The answer must be a clear no, and we will not give in.”

The initiative will provide €325 (£283) a week to 2,000 eligible artists based in the Republic of Ireland. This follows a pilot (for which 2,000 artists were randomly selected from 8,000 applicants). ‘The scheme recouped more than its net cost of €72m’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

UK to ban political party donations from foreign-owned companies ft.trib.al/9IPn1l3

Local #communityenergy groups can now express interest with GB Energy to get their projects on GB Energy’s radar for future support and funding opportunities. If you’re developing local or community-owned energy projects, make sure you’re in the loop. 👇 www.gbe.gov.uk/express-your... #LocalPowerPlan

Is it "Local-Power Plan" or "Local Power-Plan"? It's a question I have not seen asked (or answered), but with the announcement yesterday, I'm going with "Local-Power Plan" now on! It is time for everyone to have the opportunity for a slice of the energy cake. #communityenergy #localpowerplan

With the launch of the Local Power Plan yesterday, it's a good time to reshare this list of community energy posters. Please shout if you're working on community energy and would like to be added.

One of the maddest elements of Brexit - and there are *many* - is the rewards that continue to be lavished on the blithering idiots who sold it & continue to be proved wrong about everything every day…

Here in the UK we've had one of our wettest winters ever. At the same time, we seem to be as addicted to cheap flights as ever before. Will we ever wake up?

No, your artificial lawn is not a "life hack". It's another tiny nail in the planet's coffin.

"They are called homunculi," explained Sir Michael, "which I don't think anybody knows anything about, apart from Mackenzie." There has been a Wikipedia article about them since September 2003

Well, the Science Museum’s warehouse that's 15 minute's drive from where I live is FASCINATING. Housing 300,000 items representing 90% of the Museum's collection (the other 10% is in exhibits). Everything from the World's Fastest Milk Float, to Stephen Hawking's “voice”!

This May sees the release of Our Land - a feature length documentary film about the Right to Roam campaign, directed by Orban Wallace. www.youtube.com/watch?v=est-...

A landmark moment for community energy in the UK.🙌💰 The government has announced up to £1 billion in new funding for community-owned energy projects, the largest public investment in community energy to date. 🤯

Feeling hopeful 🤞

This is on tonight on Channel 4 at 9pm. Very interested to see how they make telly out of retrofit.

We love seeingcommunities taking the lead on local energy solutions 🤩 This project is a fab example of how community ownership can deliver real, practical benefits: solar on local schools, lower energy costs for public buildings, and surplus power flowing back into the wider system ✅✅✅

Hello lovely people! It's my birthday this week - why not celebrate and join me in becoming a new member of Forest Community Energy, it's just £1 😉 www.forestcommunityenergy.org.uk/membership/ #communityenergy

Oh dear...... life is hard enough. Their access pass made such a difference for so many Autistic ADHD people :( www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/artic...

#SuperbOwl is trending, so here is some Artful Owl: Said Owl, "The rest of us hold back. There's only one that he'll attack." Said Timid Toad, "I like your plan." "Good luck," said Owl, "For you're the man!" ~ Captain Beaky

A lovely film about a local community - a perfect Sunday watch (and short 🙂) #communityenergy

Anyone here in an Energy Local Club - buying energy direct from a local generator (wind, solar, hydro)? #EnergyLocal

Meanwhile in Kyiv

A big crowd gathering in the Magdalen auditorium for our Lord of the Rings marathon. All three movies, extended versions, with hobbit meals and a special.mystery guest... Real sense of anticipation. Not sure how I'll feel by 10pm.

For those missing #hookland

I was interviewed by @chrisbaraniuk.com about my mini wind turbine "physical twin" as well as my live Ceefax for Wind Farms display. It's all part of his blog The Reengineer, packed full of other interviews and articles about the energy transition; well worth checking out if you haven't seen it.

If you are baffled by why the jury refused to convict the Palestine Action defendants, it's because – unlike them – you didn't hear the actual evidence. You heard what the media wanted you to know. Here, I explain what the jury learnt from the trial: jonathancook.substack.com/p/barristers...

“There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.” more

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Do you want to know more about Community Owned Energy and how it benefits local people? Watch our film about the The Clubhouse, Sling.. youtu.be/4oxELOz5SKU #communityenergy #forestofdean

We like to have our smaller face-to-face meetings in local community cafes - this week Taurus Crafts, Lydney and The Ark Cafe, Newent - great coffees and teas all round! #communityenergy #forestofdean

The chalkboard that hangs behind the bar at Squat 17b does not list the drink specials — it keeps a countdown of how many more days Ukrainians must endure the harsh winter that has gripped the war-weary country. On Thursday, it read: “Days until spring: 24.” w/ @fabricedeprez.bsky.social

Our language becomes fluid, blurred. Gateway. Threshold. Portal. All these things imprecise and yet signalling what we feel as a truth: beyond this opening is the strange. Whether we go through becomes a litmus test. Do we want that possibility of encountering the uncanny? – Dr. M. Benn

NEW: I spoke to @robhawkes.bsky.social about the miniature wind turbine he made. The blades spin to match the activity of a real British wind farm of his choice! What other interesting ways of visualising or representing energy system activity have you seen?? www.thereengineer.pro/p/i-built-a-...

The Wayback is now so load-bearing we should be protecting it with our actual lives

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

Steve Bannon tells Epstein he can get Boris Johnson elected as Prime Minister www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Here's a sneaky peak the next release of the GB Renewables Map, or should I say the GB Not Just a Renewables Map… That's right, all types of power assets are coming to the map! Plus a whole bunch of other improvements.

How am I meant to have my Imbolc bonfire in this weather?!

Sending welcome cards to all the new members who joined in January 🙂 #forestofdean #communityenergy #comms

Happy February! Welcome to most underrated and fastest improving month. You start in the depths of winter and end waking up in the light to the sound of birds singing, to the sight of snowdrops, daffodils and early blossom in the trees #BigFebruary

“Technical failures, cyber-attacks and natural disasters can all bring down key parts of the internet. And as the US government makes increasing demands of European leaders, it is possible to imagine Europe losing access to the digital infrastructure provided by US firms.”

Flail hedges less. Landowners save money and wildlife thrives. This is why we run free hedgelaying courses for farmers in Wales, and soon across the rest of the country.