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Hydrogen 💥 long live hydrogen ⚡ More than a quarter of Germany’s hydrogen refuelling stations will be permanently closed by the end of June www.hydrogeninsight.com/transport/mo...

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What is happening is in plain sight. Anyone whose thinking is stuck in 20th-century geopolitical understandings needs to move on www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

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This week’s full council meeting at #Hertfordshire County Council before the elections on May 1st. Though the budget was disappointing, here’s hoping that the #Green group will be significantly larger when councillors next meet in here 💚

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Thanks @joshdeanmp.bsky.social for organising a meeting with @networkrail at #HertfordNorth to discuss the disappointing delay to the platform 1 #lift project. @Bobdeering4 & I want a rapid solution & an end to residents struggling with stepped access. #accessibility @disrightsuk.bsky.social

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We all need local swimming pools for wellbeing and to learn fundamental skills! Donate to help put #Fanshawe Pool in #Ware into community ownership! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-fansh...

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The figure I suspect we'll all find ourselves quoting is the one on how Net Zero industry is now a bigger part of GDP that farming www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Think solar farms are bad for nature? Think again. Those designed for nature in East Anglia are teeming with birdlife - including threatened species. A new study reveals why. ⤵️

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Works as advertised

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Out in the rain and hail today talking on doorsteps and leafleting around #Buntingford with this lovely bunch of local Green cllrs, volunteers and campaigners💚. Incredibly positive conversations! Thanks all - and especially our County Council candidate Georgina Schwan! 💚

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Thanks to Hertford Civic Society and congratulations to Hertford BEAM’s Steve Sergeant and Cllr Sarah Hopewell who received a blue plaque from HCS’s chair Jan Goodeve marking the award of its architectural prize to the East Herts Council venue.

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Labour's disgusting deportation stunt this week wasn't just morally bankrupt, it was politically stupid. Politicians need to find the backbone to be honest about the real source of our problems: the wealthy elite draining money from our communities metro.co.uk/2025/02/11/l...

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Cllr Matt Fisher launched his county council election campaign last night, and you can read his full statement here... stalbans.greenparty.org.uk/2025/02/11/m...

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Great to see so many fellow #Greens at @EastGreenParty AGC meeting including cllr Andy Mellen, @CllrCTopping @G4Buntingford cllr Alex Catt etc Thanks @CllrElfrede and the team 💚

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Lovely to get out and about to deliver our latest #Green newsletter around #Bengeo - thanks team 💚

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Incredibly frustrated that @networkrail have pushed back the new lift at #HertfordNorth by yet another year, at the same time as underspending its #accessibilty funds! Now the existing lift is out of action too. Wake up @networkrail #accessforall @disrightsuk.bsky.social

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Herts Highways refusal to repair until they are at least 50mm deep means sudden intense rain storms can quickly transform already bad potholes into ones that damage vehicles or worse…

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Brings a new meaning to "burning rubber"... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Burning fuel made from processed rubber tyres creates the same amount of CO2 as burning conventional jet fuel. Yet it somehow still qualifies as 'SAF' (so-called 'sustainable' aviation fuel). What's sustainable about that?

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I read somewhere that someone had given Rachel Reeves a copy of Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth. Not sure if that's true, but either way, Rachel would definitely benefit from reading it! Currently she still seems to believe the delusion of infinite growth. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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So tonight is Clean Air Night. Do you sit by the open fire in the pub? Do you have a wood burner? Take a look at the research on why Clean Air Night is now a thing. And make sure your loved ones breathe clean air tonight. www.actionforcleanair.org.uk/campaigns/cl...

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Rachel Reeves is expected to approve a third runway at Heathrow airport despite the fact it would wreck the country's climate ambitions and is highly unlikely to result in any GDP 'growth'. Brilliant...

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Help celebrate clean air night this January …. By not buying a wood burning stove. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R53J...

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Bordeaux is the latest city to increase parking costs for huge cars, following Montreal, Cologne, and Paris. Parking fees will be 30% higher for ICE vehicles >1,600 kg (3,527 lb) and EV/hybrids >1,900 kg (4,189 lb).

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For the FT, I explored a long-term climate scenario that some scientists now think is more likely: Changes in ocean currents plunge northern Europe into the cold. Britain is hit by fierce winter storms; crop-growing becomes next to impossible. How do we respond? Please read: on.ft.com/3Ch5F0J

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A fantastic quiz fundraiser last night for the mayor of Hertford’s charities, packed with 200 keen quizzers. Brilliant question setting by Pam, and thanks to Team Brittain and to Hertford Town Council for organising it. 💚💚

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NEW ANALYSIS: Right-leaning UK newspaper editorials have relentlessly attacked energy secretary Ed Miliband since last year's election, calling him "hysterical", a "madman" & "demented" The papers have also published a record number of editorials opposing climate action… 1/2

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Out for a New Year drink by the Thames #Greenwich #CuttySark

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The £2 bus fare cap has now increased to £3; a 50% increase. The fuel duty cap remains in place, at a cost £3billion. Yet 28% of the poorest households have no car access, compared to just 6% of the richest. From both a social justice and climate justice perspective, this feels topsy-turvy.

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'if we build with oil- and cement-based materials and no mechanism to guarantee affordability, we risk burning through our carbon budget and locking in car dependency, while failing to make housing cheaper for anyone' 💯 we need ambition and imagination

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This has made my day! Thank you 🙏

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Quite a balanced article about two new Dutch style junctions in Cambridge and how they are working for different sorts of users via @gazza-d.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Bloody hell, even twenty minutes of Mackenzie Crook talking about The Detectorists is just the loveliest, loveliest thing. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Japan bet the farm on hydrogen vehicles, which gave China a head start, but at least the Japanese have the sense to respond in a meaningful way. Europe’s car giants are instead lumbering towards death while the U.S are trying - and failing - to keep the fossil-fueled combustion engine alive.

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Lots to say about the Government White Paper on Devolution Bigger more remote Councils, Less representation for local people. Mayors nobody asked for. Power moved from distant Whitehall to a distant Mayor No proportional representation to elect them It's devolution Jim but not as we know it!

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Thanks to all our lovely @EastHertsGreen volunteers for organising the #Kingsmead leaflet delivery around #Pinehurst and #Foxholes We believe it’s vital to get local news delivered to every home in our patch on a regular basis 💚💚

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Our next lecture is on Friday 13th December, "The Cursus Monuments of Buckinghamshire and the Great Ouse Valley" by David Saunders. United Reformed Church, Welwyn Garden City, 7.45 for the lecture. @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social

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We get the politics they pay for. #democracy - it would be a good idea www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Looking forward to a good time at #Cinderella as we have gone to the ball! Oh yes we are! #Christmas #panto

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Don’t miss the brilliant #Cinderella at #BEAMHertford this Xmas! See it for the fab cast, great songs, stunning spectacle, the quick fire innuendo but most of all for the genius ‘What I’d rather do’ slapstick song that will leave tears in your eyes. It certainly left tears in Button’s eyes! 👏🏻😂

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Really good analysis from @davidtoke.bsky.social of electricity prices vs proportion of wind and solar in the generation mix, countering 'the cost of net-zero' disinformation in the Daily Mail davidtoke.substack.com/p/exposing-t...

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Bus-focussed Friday at the Intalink annual conference in Hatfield. Timely reminder that every £1 invested in bus services can bring £4.55 of economic benefits 🚎🚏🚍

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Members of the Community Archaeology Geophysics Group were out in Suffolk today extending a mag survey (roughly the western 3rd of the attached image). Some nice results with yet more ditches and perhaps a timber building. One of the strong magnetic anomalies looks a little like a pottery kiln.

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Happy World Sustainable Transport Day! To help celebrate, Campaign for Better Transport is running a competition, inviting you to share what you'd like to change about our existing sustainable transport to make it better: bettertransport.org.uk/world-sustai...

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