Tehran was already on the brink of running out of water.
Now, even the rain is contaminated.
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Tehran was already on the brink of running out of water.
Now, even the rain is contaminated.
UK must double down on renewables as wars drive up energy costs, experts say
Green graphic from Bradford District Green Party titled “ACTION DAYS!”. Four photos show groups of Green Party volunteers out campaigning and community volunteering. In one photo, several people stand on a grassy area with terraced houses behind them. Another shows volunteers in green high-visibility vests holding litter pickers and purple rubbish bags outside a building. A third photo shows a group gathered in a car park holding leaflets. The fourth is a group selfie of volunteers standing on a residential street beside parked cars. The Green Party Bradford District logo appears at the bottom with small promotional imprint text.
💪 Another super busy campaigning weekend!!
🚪 We've been out on the doorsteps in Toller, Silsden, Wyke, Bingley and more - right across our district!
👏 There is so much enthusiasm for the Green Party in Bradford!
✅️ Come and help us turn #Bradford Green 👇
business as usual mineral based construction, lime brick, reinforced concrete, fired brick, mineral wool with large raw material input, total material removal from nature and high primary energy input -> fossil fuel emission output.
If you want to combat species extinction, then make a change in construction, in the way we build.
The loss of biodiversity IS linked to the extraction of raw materials from nature.
Hanging up bird boxes, efficiency and using renewable energy is great, but it doesn't solve this problem. #RMI #TMR
Life on Kenya’s largest dump: the invisible workers sorting the world’s rubbish
Nothing is ever thrown away.
There is no 'away'
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels.
www.positive.news/environment/...
Researchers found that replacing sheep with cattle at a site in the Yorkshire Dales - as part of Yorkshire Wildlife Trust's Wild Ingleborough project - saw plant diversity increase by more than 40% and the number of butterflies increased.
More of this sort of thing.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
In this current harsh world, let's warm a few hearts remembering the events of 7-8 March 1991, when the 90,000 people of Brindisi woke up to find 25,000 Albanians roaming the streets of their town. For perspective, that's roughly equivalent to 25k people suddenly landing in Hastings [Thread] >> 1
Labour just announced energy price cap dropped.
Oil just spiked, completely undoing that.
Given 50% of UK energy is from renewables, now is the time to renationalise and drop the dumbass marginal price system that makes green energy needlessly as expensive as gas.
This is why the Green position is no new nuclear. Like trees, the best time to build a nuclear power plant was 20 years ago. Unlike trees, the second best time doesn’t seem to be now.
Leafleting tomorrow in Wyke for @bradfordgreens.bsky.social
Facing the climate and nature crisis head on is the first step in rising to the challenge. It's time to restore hope.
More testimonials here: www.nebriefing.org/testimonials
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp #NationalEmergencyBriefing
One of those things that is so obvious it feels like it hardly needs to be said, but clearly needs to be said loudly and repeatedly - Europe doesn't need to gut the welfare state to pay for defence if it manages its defence collectively.
That is ... powerful.
Brilliant - and here www.youtube.com/watch?v=pozD...
A fresh update:
£40 billion to refurb the House of Commons? Surely that's a typo. You could build around half a million units of social housing for that 🤔
BBC News - Parliament refurb chair defends potential £40bn costs
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth
None of them through the Strait of Hormuz
billmckibben.substack.com/p/sunlight-t...
Today I attended the unveiling of the new plaque outside Sheffield Town Hall to commemorate all the amazing tree campaigners. Videos below.
More data for the "get off fossil fuels, reduce energy demand and build more solar and wind farms asap" position. ⬇️
The box shows a summary that I've done of actions to be taken in high emission countries, suggested by the NEB scientists in their Nov 2025 talks, together with the article by @kevinclimate.bsky.social at www.sgr.org.uk/resources/ge... (hoping that I've not misquoted anybody).
Can we now choose the leader of the USA? I’ll choose anyone but the orange buffoon.
What if, communities, councils, charities and foundations, all clubbed in together to establish projects that would remove reliance on fossil fuels.
Bills go down
Emissions go down
Profits are kept local
Idiots at the top can’t pretend we need fracking.
Wealth redistribution is good actually.
Community renewables bring power to the people literally: lowering bills, letting communities put more money into their local economy, all without selling off the whole thing to foreign investors who can siphon off all the profits to tax havens and Canadian pension funds.
Labour HATE that.
Community Renewables are going to play a huge part in the climate crisis, cost of living crisis, wealth redistribution, and making muppets like @dalevince.com so angry they continue to pretend Labour are environmentalists because they @greenparty.org.uk want more community solar which is bad for him
🌊 Sweeping cuts are set to hit UK-funded environmental projects in developing countries, including the Blue Planet Fund, set up following Sir Attenborough’s landmark Ocean doc. These cuts will be a devastating loss for ocean, people & planet.
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/ngos-co...
Office for Environmental Protection & RSPB on one side - Defra on the other. Who do you trust in a disagreement about wildlife protection? markavery.info/2026/03/03/r...
Rachel Reeves briefly channeled Hannah the Plumber in Spring Statement but what wd Greens do if they had power? We don't know.
😬I'm sure this will be fine😬 "Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study"
www.carbonbrief.org/...
Front door of a 1905 art nouveau architect's house in Etterbeek. At some point in the past 20 years, the amazing iron gate to the porch was removed. I wonder what happened to it. The door doesn't benefit from any particular protection either.
