Did you know that the PR agency for #COP30 also works for fossil fuel companies like Shell? We made a meditation app to help them sleep at night. Try it for yourself here oilwell.app

Become a co-owner of #EuropeanSleeper and get a free ticket for our first night train from Paris to Berlin! Buy 7 or more shares (min. €980) and receive an invitation for a free return ticket on the very first festive departure. More info 👉️ www.europeansleeper.eu/invest

Nothing could be more @jemgilbert.bsky.social than the 11 minute introduction he provides to the subsequent hour & a half interview between him, Alan Finlayson and Neal Lawson of Compass, explaining what Compass is, to give listeners extra context to the ensuing discussion Anyway great listen 🥀

Just a fabulous space to be in

One of the things that makes the foot tunnel to coal drops yard from Kings cross station so lovely to walk through is that there are no advertisements

European political scientists are blue in the face from constantly pointing out that accommodating the far right does not help centre-left parties win, and contributes to the rise of far-right parties. There's a mountain of data to support that. But no, the galaxy-brained strategists must be right.

The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but … no wait it’s the UK Labour Party. The Labour Party needs to hear this

Staunching the flow of local authority public assets into private hands should have been one of the top priorities of an incoming Labour government. When it’s gone, it’s gone 😢

Ridership on Paris region transit systems is now generally at or higher than pre-pandemic levels. Bike use is much higher than pre-pandemic. At the same time, car traffic in Paris and on its ring highway is substantially lower than it was pre-pandemic. www.institutparisregion.fr/mobilite-et-...

Treasury briefing that the boiler upgrade scheme was going to be hobbled, but instead this (sensible!) expansion of scope. I’m so mystified by the government’s comms on this

This is… actually great!

Only 2 years since the ban on neonics, France's population of insect-eating birds has risen 2-3% - from banning a single type of insecticide. Demonstrating just how much harm we cause birds when pesticides kill off the insects they need for food. @paneurope.bsky.social

With the world heating up [and more pedestrians being killed], why are more SUVs being sold? “It’s the industry that has driven the demand through huge marketing & advertising campaigns in recent years. SUVs offered the industry a simple way of charging more for a vehicle that does the same thing.”

I put swift bricks into our parapet wall a couple of years ago. Still no joy attracting any tenants but hope springs eternal! If you’re doing any works to high up walls and roofs it’s worth considering adding some Swift bricks to the mix

I'm a shareholder in Rumbling Bridge Community Hydro which is a great example of how such schemes could be financed and the benefits they can provide through community grants.

There is about half a GW of untapped low-to-no-regrets, run-of-river hydropower resource in the UK, whose generation profile will be disproportionately valuable in a future electricity system dominated by wind & solar. All this place-based energy should be developed as community owned projects!

Brilliant to see my daughter Sabine’s first article in print in the Ham & High www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/255880..., telling her story about the day she stopped waiting for the bus – and started saving £1,000 a year. 1/7

It's not just that work under these platforms is often done illegally (illegal vehicles; uninsured; breaking road traffic laws; modern slavery infiltrated labour). But even if you solve those problems; the employment model is exploitative to try and hide the fact that these are, in fact, employees.

Yet another evidence review argues very strongly that simply providing alternatives to driving doesn't reduce driving This isn't surprising, if only thanks to habit. If I unthinkingly jump in my car for every trip (as many do), new buses won't change that www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Yet every time Sadiq Khan posts something about climate change or or diversity or LGBT rights, the replies are full of CAPSLOCK dimwits screeching about stabbing murders

Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in. Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/

Another year, another Welsh town devastated by flooding. We're tragically unprepared for the dramatic changes to our #climate & urgently need to invest in adaptation. The longer we continue to burn fossil fuels the worse the impacts will become. #Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #Wales #Claudia #ClimateEmergency

“The purpose of propaganda is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” ― Aldous Huxley

Hmmmmmmmm

This statement not acceptable and I suspect not sustainable. Large majority of public support principle of asylum, support letting people stay permanently. Majority for that among Labour and other progressive parties’ voters is overwhelming. The Reform voters this is aimed at will never vote Labour

I was invited on to @listentotimesradio.bsky.social to talk about the (so-called) "stealth tax on long haul flights". Not very stealthy in my opinion but I do offer a better, fairer alternative. Listen now. Full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgMF...

Gov has choices They have refused to go down the 'stick' route of putting in a ban date for installations of fossil boilers All they have left is the carrot. And now this! The Carbon budgets are going to look shaky if they pull the rug from under one of the biggest sources of emissions removal 😩

Starting this November in South Korea, all public parking lots over 1,000 m² will be required to install solar power systems☀️🚗 This initiative boosts renewable energy adoption in urban areas, but also turns everyday spaces into power-generating hubs 🙌

I do feel for Labour ministers who have been knuckling down on their briefs and patiently working on delivering sectoral reforms which will deliver wide ranging public benefits, e.g.

The whole tenor of the government’s new Carbon Budget Delivery Plan published two weeks ago was ‘carrots not sticks’. So announcing the scrapping of a whole bunch of critical ‘carrots’ now… begs questions as to how the government thinks its climate goals will now be met. I suspect they have no idea

Dog walking pal telling me she watched One Day recently and her main takeaway was not to get on a bike anytime soon. Reminded me how much I hated One Day but also how messed up it is that any time you see a character get on a bike in film or TV they’re invariably about to be run over

I am also really worried about the potential mismatch between people in fuel poverty and heat pumps. They massively reduce carbon emissions of households who can already afford to heat their homes to a decent level, and also often save them money.

One important thing to understand about these policy support mechanisms (“benefits for middle class voters”) being scrapped or slashed is that they are *expressly designed* to incentivise people with money to spend it on clean technology, on basis that public spending can’t deliver transition on own

“Right, thinking hats on, what can we f*ck up today?” “Hmm I don’t think we have f*cked up heat pumps properly yet?” “genius, I’m writing that down” “Best Budget Ever!” [high fives]

OMG I could be a postman, I’m now thinking

The local cycling WhatsApp has been alight today with warnings about the slippery leaves in the chiswick cycle lane - & puzzled speculation over what idiots could have made weird big piles of leaves in the lane, making it even more dangerous. Answer: NextDoor motonormative vigilante street-sweepers

It's astounding how much CO₂ we put into the atmosphere each year by burning fossil fuels. For comparison, we all agree that plastic pollution is bad, but the mass of ALL THE PLASTIC humanity has ever produced is only 25% of the CO₂ we emitted into the atmosphere in 2025.

A little excerpt from last week's @freewheeling.info podcast - full link here: www.freewheeling.info/the-freewhee...

Lovely write up of our @badvertising.bsky.social station takeover campaign in Creative Review

The Irish cycle to work scheme is a salary sacrifice model and has a higher rate for cargo bikes vs standard bikes (3k euro for cargo bikes, half that for standard bike). There are a couple of brands that offer cargo bikes specifically priced to fit the scheme

This has all the hallmarks of red meat to the gutter press: low level anti cycling, going after high earning white collar workers while saying you are doing it to support fairness and the underprivileged. As many have said, peanuts next to electric car subsidies.

Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests, provoking negative reactions.

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"Innocence, on the Bicycle of Propriety, carrying the Urn of Reputation safely over the Abyss of Indiscretion" Artist: Edward Gorey from his book The Broken Spoke

“We have held a lot of barbecues this summer, introducing track engineers to train drivers etc. We’re coming together organizationally, we’re coming together culturally, we’re coming together digitally. People coming together, fixing problems, making the railway better & safer. Integrated planning!”

Jools Townsend community rail network: “We have got to be getting people out of cars and onto public transport, so we need to talk to those people! If we are only talking to existing rail passengers about the system and services we don’t know how to deliver modal shift”