Cities and Regions Lead at @DoughnutEcon. Local government and city leadership, urban planning and policy, participation, cities for people and planet.
Thousands have queued in the rain for hours to lobby their MPs to vote for a #CeasefireNOW in Gaza
However security is preventing them from entering Westminster Hall leaving it virtually empty.
Why is Parliament preventing people from exercising their democratic rights? 🇵🇸
Join me emailing MPs in the UK ahead of crucial Gaza #CeasefireNOW vote next week. Put pressure on parliament using @PSCupdates online action https://t.co/J3OFwyCUHJ
South Africa’s justice minister Ronald Lamola outlined the country’s genocide case against Israel, as a landmark hearing opened at the International Court of Justice ⤵️
Why cutting emissions is not enough without a system change, and why global injustices are a big part of the story we need to change. Great new resource and graphics. #ClimateJustice
What do we mean when we say, change the system, not the climate?
We’ve teamed up with @Greenpeace to make this handy explainer. More info and examples of how people around the world are rewiring our economies at https://t.co/AUottpu80B
Only 125 MPs have voted this evening for a #Gaza ceasefire in parliament — 19% of MPs.
293 voted to support Israel’s continuing bombing after over 11,000 killings of Palestinians — 45% of MPs.
232 did not vote.
GAZA UPDATE: At least 4,650 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, and 1,755 more children are reported missing. Most are presumed dead under the rubble of destroyed buildings.
@LGrcheva reveals the Doughnut unrolled framework that invites the community to ask:
How can our place…
🌳be as generous as nearby nature?
🌏respect the health of the whole planet?
🤷🏽♂️respect the wellbeing of all people!
✨How can all the people of our place thrive?
Right now the📍#GazaStrip is experiencing a communications blackout
@UNRWA is not able to get through to the vast majority of our team
This is the third communications blackout over the past 10 days. Gazans are completely cut off from their loved ones and the rest of the world
🚨TOMORROW - London Rally for Palestine - Ceasefire NOW! - November 4 - 2:30PM
Calling all Londoners! Join our protest for Palestine tomorrow in Trafalgar Square to demand a #CeasefireNOW
Please join your local actions in your borough before coming to the city-wide rally!
Are you interested to bring the principles of #DoughnutEconomics into urban and architectural projects? Check out Doughnut for Urban Development: Manual developed by an interdisciplinary team, and join the launch webinar to learn more about using it in practice. Details ⬇️
So excited to be launching this guide for cities and regions! Full of inspiring examples of places putting #DoughnutEconomics into practice. Please share with anyone working in or for local governments that wants to learn more about how to get started or how to do more.
Today we’re launching Cities & regions: let’s get started, a guide for anyone working alongside local or regional gov't who is inspired by #DoughnutEconomics and wants to better understand how to start putting them into practice in their own place. (1/4)
In November, five fab folks from the Slotervaart neighbourhood in Amsterdam Nieuw-West came to Birmingham for @CIVIC_SQUARE’s #neighbourhoodportrait launch.
Today (only 3 months later!) they blew it out the water with their very own neighbourhood festival 💥 [1/5]
💓🆘 🇹🇷 for Turkiye.
My homeland is devastated by the #earthquakeinturkey. Untold thousands dead, trapped & dying. Millions cold, hungry & homeless. 10m+ ppl living amongst rubble. To help, here are organisations I trust. Details in 🧵
1. @ihtiyacharitasi
2. @oxfam
3. @ahbap
Doughnut calling urban design!
From a street in Birmingham to a harbour in Oslo - learn from places retrofitting & rebuilding with Doughnut Economics as inspiration. Webinar 7 Dec. with insights from guests incl. @charliedmonds@CIVIC_SQUARE Join here: https://t.co/ubrV88hycy