Great article with @scarlettmcnally.bsky.social about encouraging less driving and more active travel to save the #NHS hastingsonlinetimes.co.uk/hot-topics/h...

Interesting proposals in this article about how to revivify local #democracy in #Sussex, especially important in view of the looming ‘democratic deficit’ when the current Sussex devolution process eliminates all districts & borough councils, centralising power upwards. medium.com/@valerieabl4...

The only thing that has changed since the Paris Agreement Is that hundreds of fossil fuel lobbyists get an all-expenses paid holiday in a different COP country each year ensuring none of its recommendations are actually implemented

“we are reducing the environmental requirements placed on developers when they pay into the nature restoration fund that we have created so they can focus on getting things built, and stop worrying about bats and newts.” Speech from the Chancellor, Jan 2025. www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/nightma...

Rosatom accounts for almost half of the world's uranium enrichment capacity. Russian uranium not embargoed - U.S., EU, and U.K. all continue to import Russian #nuclear fuel or uranium. kyivindependent.com/explainer-wh...

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Global Warming surging upwards in waves. The last 365 days: * 100% over 1.0C * 50% over 1.5C * 4% over 1.8C The post 2024 mega-surge hasn't fully bottomed out yet. What will 2026 bring us? #ClimateChange #GlobalBoiling

Community cargo bicycles to launch in two south Dublin suburbs The Bike Hub, a social enterprise focused on promoting the use of bicycles, is soon to launch a shared cargo bike system in two South Dublin suburbs, in Dun Laoghaire and Sandyford. The Smartgo.ie website currently outlines the concept…

Big investors are backing community-owned energy! At BHESCo, we’re already proving that local communities can lead the clean energy revolution, and now institutional investors are catching up. Be part of the movement: invest in our share offer today - bhesco.co.uk/investment

Proud to have become a Community Member of The Work That Reconnects Network. Looking forward to helping develop a community of practice in the #Eastbourne area that can facilitate greater #CommunityResilience in the face of #ClimateBreakdown & #BiodiversityCollapse. workthatreconnects.org

"If it’s going to happen anywhere in Britain, it’s going to happen at Stonehenge.” “Neolithic Pits Near Stonehenge Might Have Channeled the Underworld, Archaeologists Argue” 🤐🤐🤐🤐 www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Cargo bikes are not just for cities They work everywhere! #CargoBike #NotJustCities

Meet The American Who Moved To Sweden To Work On Innovative Cycle Pannier System www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

Carbon capture and storage has always been a smoke and mirrors cover for business as usual in the fight against climate breakdown Now something looks like stopping it in its tracks in the UK Climate breakdown 😊 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I went to this workshop yesterday, which was brilliantly facilitated. My humble opinion is that workshops like this are sorely needed in #Eastbourne area, so if anybody would like to work with me on organising to make them more available locally, please message me.

Yesterday one of our partners, Energise Sussex Coast, ran a fab workshop in #Eastbourne based on The Work That Reconnects Network, to help develop inner resilience to crises like #ClimateBreakdown. Would anybody else locally wish to attend a repeat of this workshop or learn more about the network?

Paul Brown on SMRs: “the problem is that they do not yet exist, except on paper or on a computer. No factory has been built to make their components, no prototype has been built, no licensing process has taken place. …Unlike wind & solar, nuclear costs have consistently gone up for decades.”

A huge 89% majority of global people [56% even in the United States] want stronger action to fight the #ClimateCrisis, but mistakenly believe they’re in a minority. People want action. Smart cities are taking action. Nations should support city action. #ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social

1/ you need sticks as well as carrots if you are serious about modal shift 2/ if you rely on carrots alone the small changes you do deliver will be mostly between sustainable modes 3/ stop dicking around & make damaging behaviours more expensive & less convenient road.cc/content/news...

We're not doing a very good job of reducing CO₂ emissions from burning fossil fuels, but maybe we can do something about other greenhouse gases like CH₄ from leaky gas wells and pipes, belching cows, and rotting organic matter, N₂O from agriculture, and HFCs from refrigeration.

The amount of ice flowing from Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica has doubled in the span of three decades. These satellite images from 2001 and 2019 show the fracture and retreat of the glacier ice tongue floating on the Amundsen Sea, as it's melted from below. 🛰️ NASA

🏔️ Research from Scripps Oceanography scientist Lia Siegelman finds undersea "storms" are melting Antarctic glaciers from below. Researchers also identified a positive feedback loop in which ice shelf melting caused more ocean turbulence, which in turn caused more ice shelf melting.

America is responsible for the largest volume of carbon dioxide currently sitting in the atmosphere, trapping heat and causing disasters and death robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2025/

10 years ago hydrogen buses were hyped and many cities ordered them. Today the picture is clear: electric buses rule, hydrogen buses whither.

Last few days to comment on the Eastbourne Air quality questionnaire 🚗🚛🚢💩 www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/Eastbourne...

Great report on a huge problem for #Eastbourne: a dysfunctional & chronically underinvested wastewater treatment works. The recent massive spill of millions of toxic bio-beads from the plant is the worst single pollution incident so far, seriously contaminating local waters, beaches, & wildlife.

Interesting that amongst concerns raised was the desire for better connected #walking & #cycling paths, & reducing traffic speeds, issues which we've campaigned on for many years now, and still do. #Eastbourne is far too dependent upon cars for getting around. Damages both #environment & #wellbeing.

NEW: How can we make electric cars even cleaner? By using green aluminium. Switching automotive production to low-carbon aluminum could cost just €25 extra per car by 2040. Read our new study 👇 bit.ly/4qRohZI

Cycle schemes in Essex, Birmingham, and Ealing have achieved great results and are excellent value for money - see report. road.cc/content/news...

As #COP30 brings the Amazon into focus, reminder that the voluntary agreement known as the 'soya moratorium' has slowed rates of deforestation in the region It's under thereat from big farmer interests. It's vital Tesco, Sainsbury's, McDonald's, KFC et al stand firm www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

All nations committed under the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5 degC for good reason. Instead many governments are beholden to the fossil fuel lobby and even subsidize fossil fuel use with your money. We’re now at 1.4 degC & emissions are rising not falling. unfccc.int/process-and-...

Interesting that UK shown as one of the countries least at risk to the 'climate crisis'

📢Global Carbon Budget 2025📢 Fossil CO2 emissions continue to rise in 2025 while the terrestrial carbon sink recovers to pre-El Niño strength. The key findings are covered in two reports this year: * ESSDD (preprint): essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es... * Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

Get your fill of Global Carbon Budget 2025 figures and associated data here, released today: robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2025/

At the recent #Eastbourne Farmers Market in November, our volunteers made another big delivery, using our e-cargo bike, to local community fridges, of organic veggies kindly donated by some market stallholders. Using #zerocarbon transport to reduce #foodinsecurity. Win-win?

Good news: more than 50% of the world’s economies have seen carbon emissions from fossil fuel power generation peaking. And with the speed of change in the electricity sector many more will join this growing list in coming years.

Amazing how often we say 'too many visitors' when what we mainly mean is 'too many cars' news.stv.tv/north/dunkel...

ICE vehicles waste a whopping 80% of the energy in their fuel. Electric vehicles are propelled by entirely different mechanisms. Energy enters the vehicle as electricity, which directly powers the drivetrain: EVs need not convert one form of energy to another resulting in much higher efficiency.

NEW: Risky levels of forever chemicals in the raw drinking water sources of at least 6 million people prompted the Drinking Water Inspectorate to order water companies to act to ensure it doesn't make it to the tap. 1/2 Covered today on the BBC and... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In just six months, China added 256 gigawatts (GW) of new #solar capacity — more than the entire solar infrastructure ever built by the United States. That’s enough clean energy to power over 40 million homes, marking the fastest renewable expansion in human history.

Two of our volunteers played a key role in helping to develop the #Eastbourne Farmers Market to help bring fresh organic local #GoodFood & drink to local residents. We take our e-cargo bike to each market to pick & deliver donated food to local community fridges. ecoactioneb.co.uk/the-eastbour...

Our e-cargo bike will be available once more to deliver any fresh organic local food donated by stallholders at tomorrow’s Eastbourne Farmers Market to local community fridges. As weather is forecast to be very windy, market will be held inside the Towner Gallery. See you there! #GoodFood

The window to act on climate is rapidly closing. Our new 2025 State of the Climate report is just out. Read the full report here: doi.org/10.1093/bios... @michaelemann.bsky.social @dwallacewells.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @ecowarriorss.bsky.social

"My husband and I decided to plant our own wildflower meadow." #biodiversity www.bbc.com/news/article...

"If basal melting in East #Antarctica is not properly accounted for, future sea level rise may be considerably underestimated... We urgently need to integrate these seasonal dynamics into #climate models to improve projections..." - Dr. @adele-morrison.bsky.social

Study after study, data proves again and again that bike infrastructure saves lives.

I’m in Paris right now and have noticed “school street” mentioned as a desirable feature in real estate ads. No cars = higher property value, it seems