emma linford 🏳️‍🌈

Organiser @EveryonesStars | International Mountain Leader | Regen Education | Author #wildservice (Bloomsbury, 2024) @RGS_IBG fellow

[emma linford 🏳️‍🌈 @linfordem]

Our Land - 3 films and panel discussion with @DamienGabet, @johnhardingfilm, Harry Jenkinson and myself. Nov 7 in Cambridge. All ticket donations go to @Right_2Roam @EveryonesStars. Link here https://t.co/3X9I0ppLPq

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

By a majority of 277, the House of Commons has (finally!) voted to introduce a Deposit Return Scheme, by approving the Deposit Scheme for Drinks Containers… Regulations 2024.

Whilst the introduction date of October 2027 feels unnecessarily far away, as a river guardian & litter picker it feels like a real relief that it may only be another couple of years of the worst of picking up other people’s mess & trying to hold back the tidal wave of single-use containers that coat so many parts of my river.

This is a real and tangible win for the environment & the government deserves credit for making it a reality after so many years of stalling.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

The world’s richest man @elonmusk is promoting the far right in Europe. Don’t buy a @Tesla.
Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin.
(In collaboration with @politicalbeauty)

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

I’m still hoping this isn’t true. In what world would a Labour Government want to scupper the one Bill that brings climate & nature restoration together, increases ambition & generates good jobs & security in every constituency? ⁦@zerohour_uk⁩ https://t.co/G6FxGFyfal

[Miles Richardson @findingnature]

After approval by 147 Governments, the @IPBES Transformative Change Assessment was launched this afternoon. Human-nature connectedness is recommended as a powerful strategy for transformative change, my thoughts and links to summary for policy makers: https://t.co/nlN6RbWjz4

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Well, there we have it.

Today’s ruling by the Office for Environmental Protection confirms the simple fact that much of the sewage going into our rivers would not be happening if government had simply enforced the law.

The ruling strongly vindicates what environmental campaigners & volunteer river guardians have been saying for years: the law is clear & unambiguous & is not being enforced. However, given the destruction this has caused to the rivers we love, we aren’t going to enjoy saying ‘we told you so’.

We now need urgent action: the government must properly fund the Environment Agency so that they can prosecute every.single.illegal.sewage. spill & direct all the fines back into restoring the rivers that have been so badly damaged by the sewage scandal.

If these prosecutions don’t happen, the privatised water companies will simply have no incentive to fix illegal sewage spills. It is also terrible for the rule of law to have flagrant criminal offences occurring in broad daylight that result in zero action or enforcement.

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

It is no coincidence that bats & newts are receiving flack for supposedly stopping infrastructure, house building & other development. These are some of the only wildlife which has substantive protections, both on the creatures themselves & their habitat. Most other parts of Nature have often worthless procedural protections that can be overridden with the stroke of a bureaucrat’s pen, so that we don’t even usually register their loss. It is usually felt as a mere absence of the vitality, diversity & amount of Nature that people would once have taken for granted, if it is registered at all.

It is more than possible to build the housing & infrastructure that Britain needs whilst also protecting & restoring the Nature which also calls these islands home. However, to do so will take thoughtfulness, imagination & effort, qualities which seem in short supply from a government seemingly determined to whack up buildings & lay down concrete without considering the effect on the already damaged & denuded natural world in Britain.

[emma linford 🏳️‍🌈 @linfordem]

Call for evidence to teach climate change in the curriculum. Submit by Nov 22nd
#regenerative #wildservice
https://t.co/pZQpup5aLx

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

I’m struggling to comprehend the arrogance involved in making yourself the figurehead of a movement & then not preparing even a vaguely convincing answer to what must be a candidate for one of the world’s most obvious questions? Absolute car crash stuff.

[Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole]

Quick reminder that 355 huge aristocratic estates benefit from a *different* inheritance tax break for 'heritage assets', separate to APR

This rewards them for owning ecologically damaging grouse moors & pheasant shoots

Let's close this loophole:

https://t.co/zPlvBLRJY4

[emma linford 🏳️‍🌈 @linfordem]

https://t.co/c407dodO2j

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Here's our statement on the results of the 2024 presidential election:

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Paul Powlesland speaking at #MarchForCleanWater 🌊

"My river way dying, and as a lawyer I couldn't understand it because there are many many laws that should protect our river, and yet, my river was dying" @paulpowlesland

"It began to research why that way.. It was the entire way our political social legal and economic systems are based"

"Seeing nature as a dead resource to be extracted and used for human ends"

"Until we change that fundamental idea, the damage to our rivers and seas will always go on"

[March for Clean Water @MarchforWater]

We're all gearing up for the march today to send one simple message: 📢 Government, IT'S YOUR JOB to stop the poisoning of Britain's waters!

📺 Can't make it to the march today? Join in by watching the livestream from 1pm: https://t.co/wZcqyDeIfd

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

And we’re off! Thousands of water guardians and activists march on Parliament for the @MarchforWater, calling on the government to take real action to stop the pollution of our rivers and seas.

[Jolyon Chesworth @JolyonChesworth]

Wildcamping in @dartmoornpa last night with my kids for #StarryStarryFortnight, it makes you feel free said my 8yro. Imagine the miserable broken soul that would try to deny us and everyone else this experience @Right_2Roam @EveryonesStars

[emma linford 🏳️‍🌈 @linfordem]

Next week @storeysfield
X3 films with panel debate
X1 new song release @HollyEbonyMusic
Free entry, all donations to @Right_2Roam @EveryonesStars

[emma linford 🏳️‍🌈 @linfordem]

Our Land - 3 films and panel discussion with @DamienGabet, @johnhardingfilm, Harry Jenkinson and myself. Nov 7 in Cambridge. All ticket donations go to @Right_2Roam @EveryonesStars. Link here https://t.co/3X9I0ppLPq

[emma linford 🏳️‍🌈 @linfordem]

Our Land - 3 films and panel discussion with @DamienGabet, @johnhardingfilm, Harry Jenkinson and myself. Nov 7 in Cambridge. All ticket donations go to @Right_2Roam @EveryonesStars. Link here https://t.co/3X9I0ppLPq https://t.co/1qUBjcfbKI