Amandeep

on inequality in health & sustainability in cities. Works at @ImpUrbanHealth. Tweets in a personal capacity.

[Amandeep @Amandeepho]

Save your lungs, avoid burning solid fuel inside the home.

Indoor wood burners linked to a decline in lung function | UCL News - UCL – University College London

[Impact on Urban Health @ImpUrbanHealth]

🔥Burning wood doesn't just harm the health of people who choose to burn.

It harms their neighbours too.

"Burning wood indoors could cause damage in a similar way to cigarette smoke, researchers have warned"
https://t.co/7AvFrvw8g3

[Impact on Urban Health @ImpUrbanHealth]

🚨Quiz time!

❓🔥According to the latest data, what's the biggest source of fine pollution matter (PM2.5) in the London borough of Southwark?

💡Answers will be revealed next week!

[Impact on Urban Health @ImpUrbanHealth]

🚴♀️Our work with @_wearepossible and @IWGBunion found that work in food delivery industry is often unsafe and insecure. But what are the recommendations to improve working conditions?

🚨To learn more, join this free event today! https://t.co/eEeQeR6uhW

[Amandeep @Amandeepho]

@EmilyAHickson @lb_southwark @ActionAidUK Whoop whoop! brilliant time too!

[Impact on Urban Health @ImpUrbanHealth]

"We are deeply concerned by the Government's decision to allow wood-burning stoves in new homes."
https://t.co/4oBJhtNlg5

[Jess Ralston @jessralston2]

🚨Some major errors & misleading claims from @bbcnickrobinson on @BBCr4today this morning, when discussing British Steel with Treasury Minister James Murray

I hope these are corrected on tomorrow's programme.

Here's what he got wrong... 🧵

https://t.co/7EF11CUQmF

[Impact on Urban Health @ImpUrbanHealth]

It’s #CleanAirNight! 🌖

Want to get involved? Learn and share the facts about wood burning ⬇️

https://t.co/6eevfRLafP

[Impact on Urban Health @ImpUrbanHealth]

We're delighted to work in partnership with @ERGImperial to offer a free course about air pollution.

👨‍🎓 Sign up to attend in-person on 18th or 25th March

💻 Or online on 17th and 24th June.

https://t.co/LI7EFvZYTt

[Possible @_wearepossible]

Did you know that 60% of couriers and delivery riders feel unsafe on the roads while working?

That’s why IWGB & Possible are calling for protected bike routes, fair pay, and support to switch to e-bikes.

It’s time to put both people and planet first. 🌍

https://t.co/LlMPHKrtkm

[Byline Times @BylineTimes]

Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass? https://t.co/69YiVkPgdX

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

This is what I wrote in 2021. I was ridiculed and worse.

I am from Nuremberg. I stuck my head out and called for strategic price controls because I had studied the history of inflation and inflation control for years and was worried inflation would bring Trump back.

[Campaign for Better Transport @CBTransport]

So to recap…
Bus fare cap ⬆️ 50%
Rail fares ⬆️ 4.6%
Rail cards ⬆️ by £5
Fuel duty… still frozen.

Gov talks of delivering on the environment yet undermines itself by failing to adequately tax our most polluting forms of transport & support the most sustainable. #Budget2024

[NEF @NEF]

The cost of capping bus fares at £2 would have been tiny compared with keeping the fuel duty freeze.

We should be incentivizing public transport which would help reduce carbon emissions - rather than continuing with this regressive fuel duty cut. #AutumnBudget

[Tzeporah Berman @Tzeporah]

Let’s get something straight about fossil fuel phase-out: renewables needn’t replace all the coal, oil and gas we use today bc most of it is just used to produce and move those fossil fuels around!

We only need to replace the useful energy: 37% of what we currently produce 🫨🧵

[josh ryan-collins @jryancollins]

Last year I was commissioned by the UK ministry of housing to write a report on the demand side-drivers of the housing affordability crisis.
After some election-related delays, here it is. (1/13)
https://t.co/cpBpUZokZr

[Leila Molana-Allen @Leila_MA]

“We’re seeing a new normal where targeting medical facilities, civilian buildings - which is against international law - has somehow become acceptable.”
Speaking to @lewis_goodall @LBC about escalating conflict in #Lebanon after night of most intense IDF strikes on #Beirut so far

[alan rusbridger @arusbridger]

Gavin Collins was an off-duty police officer enjoying a night out in central London when he was attacked by a pair of thugs. They repeatedly punched and kicked him, even after he’d been floored. Gavin needed titanium plates in his cheek and one eye socket following the unprovoked attack.

One of the attackers had three previous convictions for similar offences of common assault in the previous three years. As it happened the thugs were brothers, and the sons of one of Britain’s richest property tycoons.

But they were in luck. When they eventually appeared before Recorder Christopher Hehir in Southwark Crown Court, the judge was in a forgiving mood. The thugs were given suspended sentences—one of 15 months and one of six months.

Fast forward to last week when the same judge had to consider a different kind of case involving two young women who did not attack anyone, but did throw a can of soup at a painting by Vincent Van Gogh.

No one needed surgery. The picture frame was moderately affected because—fun fact—tomato soup is apparently “slightly acidic”. But His Honour Christopher Hehir reacted very differently, jailing one young woman for more than two years and the other for 20 months.

[Rachel Pidgeon @rpidgeon77]

“We wouldn't recommend installing a new wood-burning stove w/o seriously considering how & when you will use it, & what the health & environmental impacts will be...

If you've got one, it's worth thinking about these issues when weighing up how frequently to use it” @WhichUK

[Sam Freedman @Samfr]

Good news. The policy could significantly reduce the number of pensioners in poverty.