BREAKING - #Rosebank oilfield just given go-ahead - the greatest act of environmental vandalism in my lifetime, causing emissions equal to 28 lowest income countries, busting #climate targets & doing nothing for energy security since vast majority is for export #climatecriminals
Let there be life! Pleased to report my experiment to find a cheap way to naturalise hard river edges in urban areas appears to be successful. Last winter I coppiced long willow branches, put them in hessian bags of silt & dropped them into the Roding; many trees are now growing
@RichCimini @ESPNNY98_7FM Fun listen, @RichCimini - thanks for the podcast. Westhoff is always good value, enjoyed watching him on Hard Knocks back in the day
The NHS is under extreme pressure in the middle of summer.
It's not really being talked about.
Certainly politicians seem to be ignoring it and hoping it goes away.
Here's a thread on just what's happening.
Please share far and wide. This affects all of us.
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This picture tells the story of how Eritreans around the world felt yesterday when @GrmayeBiniam became the first black African to win a Grand Tour stage.
It was an early independence day gift for his compatriots - Independence day is on 24th of May.
The brilliant moment Ian Hislop and @PrivateEyeNews journalists began quizzing MPs in the standards committee about their own registers of interests.
MP: "It's not an excuse, it's a fact."
Hislop: "You're using a fact as an excuse - and it's not terribly convincing."
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Best #ActiveTravel quote: @Chris_Boardman on @BBCr4today - asked why more people weren't cycling on a new unjoined-up cycleway - "It's like building a bridge and not putting roads at either side and saying no one is using the bridge" @RBKC please note re #kensingtonhighstreet
BIKE LANES ONLY LOOK EMPTY BECAUSE THEY ARE DAMN EFFICIENT
This stretch in Copenhagen conveys 8 times as many people on bikes compared to cars - still it's mostly cars we see.
vid @anderspreben
Barcelona has an amazing school cycle bus every Friday. Wherever you are in the world, few kids will see this and think โIโd like to be driven to school insteadโ.
When the project started there were just five children taking part. Change can happen fast.
Maria Ressa on her @NobelPrize win: โItโs a recognition of the difficulties, but also hopefully of how weโre going to win the battle for truth, the battle for facts: We hold the line.โ
@RichCimini How long before Saleh's upbeat, optimistic outlook (which I enjoy!) starts to crack, if at all? Did Pete Carroll's demeanour ever falter during his Jets tenure?
More global aid goes to fossil fuel projects than tackling dirty air โ study by @cleanairfund
- Air pollution kills more than malaria, HIV/Aids and TB combined but receives only 1% of development aid
story by me
#AirPollution
https://t.co/0pYNgHqM05