Rua

To define is to limit

[Rua @ways_of_knowing]

"If we want..free society, it is our responsibility to be reasonable.. not rush to judgment..consume news from multiple perspectives & be open to changing our minds..If we don’t, the makers of disinformation..easily abuse our passions for their benefit.."
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[That Flo Woman @ThatFloWoman]

In case anyone needs a balloon/lantern warning in these parched times.

[Daniel Pink @DanielPink]

4. Control gets compliance. Autonomy gets commitment.

People react to control two ways. They comply or they defy. Neither one is engagement. Give someone real control over one of the four Ts, task, time, technique, or team, and motivation climbs.

[Daniel Pink @DanielPink]

1. Carrots and sticks work are far less effective than we believe.

"Do this, get that" rewards help on simple, mechanical tasks. On creative work they backfire. When Glucksberg offered cash for solving a problem faster, the paid group came in 3.5 minutes slower.

[Rua @ways_of_knowing]

Researchers at Columbia University found methane emissions from a New Jersey landfill to be five times higher than previously estimated.

https://t.co/2PD5fDhgAT

[Zwartbles Ireland • Suzanna Crampton @ZwartblesIE]

I’m walking 100 miles this August&September to raise much needed funds for Women’s Aid. Any support would be so appreciated & will help ensure that generations of women & children in Ireland are free from the terror of domestic violence. #WalkForWomen https://t.co/StOmRn4r99

[Rua @ways_of_knowing]

"Experts argue the only solution is to adapt to the new situation and focus on prevention through landscape management."

https://t.co/8iB7UAXT5T

#wildfires

[Moorland Association @MoorlandAssoc]

Recent wildfires show why prevention cannot rely on emergency response alone. Firebreaks, maintained access, practical vegetation management, water supplies, trained local responders and land-manager knowledge all need to be in place before ignition.

[Rua @ways_of_knowing]

Governments need to promote local cheese/meat & provide incentives to bring grazing lands back into use.

https://t.co/dr7lGaY6Jb

[Josh | Map Effects @MapEffects]

One mistake I see on fantasy maps all the time…

Cities surrounded by empty forests and fields instead of the farmland that kept them alive. A medieval city wasn’t an island. It was the center of a much larger agricultural landscape that provided its food, hay, timber, and livestock.

They say an army marches on its stomach. In the same way, a city could not survive long without the lifeline of the surrounding countryside.

🏰 What’s another detail you think fantasy cities often overlook?

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A council banned its own county's meat and dairy to cut food miles, then served flown-in pomegranate.

Oxfordshire County Council voted it through in 2021, on a motion from Green councillor Ian Middleton, for the health of our planet and our people. All catered council events, entirely plant-based. No beef from the county's fields. No milk from the county's cows. Nothing that had ever met a farmer.

The photos of the inaugural vegan lunch, posted by the man who proposed it, showed melon, mango, kiwi and pomegranate.

Pomegranate. In Oxfordshire. In a county so drenched in dairy you could raise a heifer in the car park, the planet was saved with a fruit that has never once ripened within nine hundred miles of Banbury.

The council later admitted it also serves imported oranges and bananas, since there have been occasions, particularly in the winter months, when food has been sourced from further afield.

Further afield. In winter. There is a cow eight miles away, standing in the December drizzle, producing milk, and the answer arrived by aeroplane.

Then the Countryside Alliance checked, and found the vegan lunches cost the taxpayer more than the meals they replaced, and that the council could not say where any of the food came from. Not wouldn't. Couldn't. The authority lecturing a county of farmers about supply chains had lost track of its own.

The mango came four thousand miles to make a point about distance.

[Francis Buner @fbuner]

Farmland #biodiversity can only be maintained & recovered with enough good habitat. This only exists where farmers are passionate about wildlife & if they can afford it. The latter depends on a good AES. Here, in the @sdnpa, some of the best habitat options have come together.

[Natalie Bennett @natalieben]

So many hard-held Victorian ideas about history that we need to #Unlearn

#WomensHistory
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[Dr David Unwin @lowcarbGP]

FOUR MILLION VIEWS !!!! Lowcarb goes mainstream in just 5 weeks!! On average my patients lose 10% of their body weight. So grateful to @StevenBartlett for giving me this opportunity to reach so many interested people https://t.co/XR5MVspHxr

[Neil Hudson @DrNeilHudson]

🥩Illegal meat imports are coming into the UK at alarming levels.
❗This could result in a catastrophic animal disease outbreak like Foot and Mouth or African Swine Fever
❓The Govt say data on this are not available and admit gaps in checks at the border
❗The Govt must wake up!

[Adam Seldon @adamJseldon]

I have a book being published.

Following 10 years in the classroom, I believed that British schooling needed a shot of perspective from beyond its borders to discover what makes a great school.

6 continents, 30 countries, 80 schools.

Pre-order here: https://t.co/4CAmA8NPJm

[Moorland Association @MoorlandAssoc]

https://t.co/slHcmACl19

[Moorland Association @MoorlandAssoc]

Rewilding and rewetting moorland without managing the vegetation can make wildfires worse. That's not a gamekeeper talking. It's the National Fire Chiefs Council, in written evidence to Parliament.

Its warning to the EFRA wildfire inquiry was plain: allow vegetation to grow across old fire breaks and fires get bigger and harder to contain. By the time a crew arrives, the fuel already on the ground decides whether they're fighting a grass fire or a landscape emergency.

The NFCC backs restoration and biodiversity. Its point is one upland keepers have made for years: the fires will come, and managed ground is what keeps them containable when they do.

So when the professional body for Britain's firefighters and the people who manage grouse moors reach the same diagnosis, Parliament might want to listen.

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[James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1]

Unreliable environmental funding is basically worthless

How can you change your business or land use for funding that might vanish in 3 months, or next year?

Its either universal enough to get Net Gain of nature / or its decline

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

Both the Thiel/Palantir scandal, and the Mandelson/Deripaska scandal lead back to one figure — Jeffery Epstein

[Rua @ways_of_knowing]

"Plant diversity in these spruce monocultures is more than 50% lower than in native forests, and nearly 75% lower than in the region's natural grasslands. "
https://t.co/Yv8DkYmAxA