Dear 🇬🇧,
Here’s your weekly reminder that 10 years ago, your NHS was ranked the #1 healthcare system on Earth. You don’t need a new system. You need a new govt that won’t destroy your public NHS to feed a private system. Your family isn’t safe in #ToryBritain.
#SOSNHS
This is powerful stuff👇
For too long, we have unthinkingly defended the rights of the motorists...
they cause cities to be shaped around vehicles, not people. More traffic is associated with weaker communities, worse air quality, and unhappier lives.
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‘Hannah Hauxwell - With Spring in the Air & in her Step on her Favourite Walk’ is a very different painting from Peter Brook’s more usual portrayal of her battling against the harsh winter weather, living and working alone high up in the Pennines on her remote Baldersdale farm.
Now sadly demolished, Middle Intake Farm was a familiar landmark on the walk from Haworth to Brontë Falls & Top Withens. Look out for the ruins of other lost farms on this part of the Moor, including Far Intake, Lower & Middle Withens, Virginia, Forks House and Deanside.
Here are the big takeaways from the @IPCC_CH Synthesis Report released today.
First, climate change has already caused widespread and substantial losses to almost every aspect of human life on this planet, and the impacts on future generations depend on the choices we make NOW.
Billed as the world’s largest open access digital archive dedicated to life on Earth, the Biodiversity Heritage Library has at least 150,000 illustrations available for free download in high-resolution files
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@damochx@XRebellionUK NASA https://t.co/tDl25cLsYD Oxford https://t.co/FBkdC6TFOf Met office https://t.co/yMsyNvQLkR Margaret Thatcher https://t.co/uJ3qeaYmik Stephen Hawking https://t.co/oJm5ljlV5C The oil PR campaign against the facts: https://t.co/ZWITHNnTti
The benefits of onshore wind are currently being framed around saving money for individual homes. But they can be so much more than that. Community ownership of wind and solar farms can drive money into fuel poverty support, rewilding projects, rural transport.
London has demolished a larger % of social housing than any other UK region:-
- at least 161 estates since 1997
- loss of ~ 55,000 homes
- displacement of~ 131,000 people.
The environmental harm of this demolition-led development is astronomical
https://t.co/FMRVJUzHWu
The @RMTunion have expressed similar concerns in the UK. One Network Rail worker told me: ‘We check the track, test equipment, tighten bolts, make sure everything’s lubricated and works properly. They want to cut 50% of that work. We’re going to be doing half as many checks.’
A Town Changed by Community Action
Local climate action has spiralled in Stroud since joining the Transitions Towns Network back in 2000, and since then, an umbrella of thriving groups has grown.
THREAD 🧵 You might have missed this; because it hasn’t been scrutinised properly by the media🚨
In December, Rishi Sunak announced on social media that he was creating an ‘NHS recovery taskforce’. He and Health Secretary Steve Barclay held a launch meeting, but when…
It's 10 days away but I'm planning an @itvMLshow on 'everything you've ever wanted to know about pensions but we're afraid to ask (or didn't know who to ask)' so it'd help me to know what you want me to cover (Inc state pension, private pension, pension in retirement).
Adaptive reuse of a 1950’s office building in Paris, with 2 extra floors added, to create social housing.
Yes, it is possible
Data Architectes, 2022 https://t.co/w8Dq5tEJ5u
After the earthquake in Hatay, Turkey a 30-meter-deep rift was formed along the fault. Olive groves were split in two
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BONUS EPISODE: Join the Planning team as they discuss some of the most important proposed changes to the UK's flagship planning policy, plus key news from past week
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The government has this week published a strategy setting out how it intends to make a range of environmental improvements, which includes a series of key takeaways for planners.
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