sii eco group 💚♻️

We are the ECOgroup for the UofG School of Infection & Immunity. We try to reduce waste, CO2 emissions & improve recycling. Views are our own.

[sii eco group 💚♻️ @ECOgroup_SII]

We have received the S-lab silver certificate for sustainable laboratories! 😊🌱

A big thank you to everyone at @iiiglasgow trying to help us improve the sustainability of our labs every day!

[sii eco group 💚♻️ @ECOgroup_SII]

I’ve signed @38Degrees’ petition calling on King Charles to do the right thing and reject a HUGE 45% royal payrise. Taxpayer funds should go towards public services like our NHS, not towards boosting the @RoyalFamily’s coffers. Add your name. https://t.co/RD5zDjD8uG

[Daniel Moser @_dmoser]

🌳Before Vs. After in Paris 🇫🇷

Ask your government for leadership and you will get a more livable, green and joyful city 👇👇

HT @Anne_Hidalgo

[Zero Waste Scotland @ZeroWasteScot]

We’re supporting @KSBScotland’s Highland Cup Movement this summer to encourage road trippers to opt for reusable cups.

Download the Vytal app and borrow a reusable cup from any of the participating businesses on the NC500 route ☕

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

2 photos of the arctic both taken in the summer more than 70 years apart show the dramatic change in the continent ice cover.

There is no time to waste. No planet B. #ActOnClimate

#ClimateEmergency #climate #energy #renewables #GreenNewDeal pic via @ChristianAslund

[sii eco group 💚♻️ @ECOgroup_SII]

Can't even spell licences correctly

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

Please screen-grab this tweet and keep it handy when food prices soar , water-wars break out , your house burns down , your business is washed away , polar bears are extinct or in a few years time when a desperate and angry young person asks you who was responsible for killing their world . . .

[sii eco group 💚♻️ @ECOgroup_SII]

And there's more!

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

Paris is working to become a '15-minute city' where everything you need is located locally within 15 mins. Every street will have a bike lane, 60,000 parking spots are being removed & replaced with parks. They aren't done yet.

We have the solutions implement them.

#ActOnClimate

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Good climate news this week
1 Canada bins most fossil fuel subsidies
2 US speeds up solar, wind grid connection
3 JV by 7 carmakers to double fast US chargers
4 Victoria bans gas in new homes
5 Maine jumpstarts floating offshore wind
6 Malaysia unveils energy transition plan

[sii eco group 💚♻️ @ECOgroup_SII]

Some positive news for a change

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

Your 'moment of doom' for July 29, 2023 ~ The doom loop:

"The U.S. is setting records for natural gas consumption this week at the power plants that keep the nation’s air conditioners humming ... In China, power plants are burning more coal ..."
https://t.co/HagdPAxN9d

[Leon Simons 🌍 @LeonSimons8]

Marie-Antoinette says it best:

[Greenpeace UK @GreenpeaceUK]

British Gas has announced profits of £969,000,000

That’s almost a 900% INCREASE on last year.

These profits have come mostly from taxpayers, who are covering the high cost of energy bills.

They’re lining their pockets while you suffer.

[sii eco group 💚♻️ @ECOgroup_SII]

We all need to talk about climate crises more . The powerful will do nothing until there is a public outpouring of support for action. between the activists (<1%) and the deniers (<1%), there’s a full 98% of who know it’s happening but aren't doing enough about it! Let's talk

[Dr Charlie Gardner (also on the blue place) @CharlieJGardner]

With all the devastating climate news around it would be easy to slip into despair

But the antidote to despair is action, so here are some thoughts on what you can do

[Scott Duncan @ScottDuncanWX]

Albania 🇦🇱 has hit 44°C for the first time on record (new national heat record) and a weather station in Canada breaks all-time record with data going back over 100 years.

These are standard air temperature observations. These are not land surface temperatures.

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

I keep being asked what I make of the UFO thing in Congress yesterday, so here it is: I watched a few clips and saw some people who seemed to believe stuff saying extraordinary things without presenting extraordinary evidence. Therefore I have nothing more to say, other than: It would be great if true - it would take a bit of the pressure off our civilisation if we weren’t the only means within the Milky Way by which the Universe understands itself. Sadly, as of today, I still feel that pressure, so can we perhaps focus on not messing our world up rather than hoping that, to paraphrase Sagan, someone will float down to save us from ourselves.

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

This is what it feels like to be alive as we approach the end of the world as we know it. There is time to avoid the worst but it means every single one of us becoming activists. Leave it to other people and we are toast. Listen to David Attenborough who warned us time and again

[MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research @CVRinfo]

VACANCY | #Technician. Ref 122989 - Deadline soon!

Provide technical assistance, maintenance, and lab support to primary and tissue culture labs whilst supporting the CVR's research groups.

📆 Deadline: 28 July

Info 👉 https://t.co/I8PhKFsyUq
Apply 👉 https://t.co/Px5oo6YJWF

[Patrick Galey is on @patrickgaley.bsky.social @patrickgaley]

Jesus Christ.

Southern Europe grain yeilds likely to be 60% lower than last year and 9.5% lower than the 5-year average due to #Heatwaves

The global food system will shatter how all systems do: gradually, and then all at once #ClimateEmergency https://t.co/liDptkKs9w

[MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research @CVRinfo]

📄 NEW Publication with @CRUK_BI!

@annasimsbiol, #HuailongZhao, @RuteMPinto & @snjasim worked with @Robertslab1 and colleagues create stable, long lasting, florescent viruses for exciting 3D imaging (@Onlycloney) to visualise the virus antigen.

Paper: https://t.co/WgDruXVnhw

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

Wildfires now in France too while Tory MPs and media discuss whether climate change is a real issue or not