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đź’ĄThe Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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Spoil a children's favourite: Blue Wee.

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It's lovely and windy today, which means lots of clean green electricity. Or does it? See all those purple dots in Scotland? Those are wind farms that we're turning off as of 8am… 🤔

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Have you undertaken training with us? 🙏 We have a free offer for our Alumni 🥇 1 CEPH/PHI point available for each live event 🏠 8 of our trainers will talk through 12 of the projects they have worked on #passivhaus #EnerPHit #deepretrofit 📆 We start on Thursday 27 Feb ✅ 45 min online webinars

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Plenty to be debated about the sustainability of skyscrapers; embodied carbon, land use / density, transport, etc. If they’re to be built, it’s better for them to be built to the Passivhaus standard, but should they be built at all? www.dezeen.com/2025/02/19/p...

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Sadly, I think much of this article is true. It seems that genuine investment in the north of the UK - the 4th most regionally unequal country in the OECD ahead of only Turkey, Colombia and Hungary - is again seen as an “unaffordable luxury.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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If you’re interested in Passivhaus, I’d recommend following @wolfgangfeist.bsky.social. (In case you don’t know, he’s the founder.)

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I’m personally in favour of new towns, done right. The list of facilities is positive. However for years, new suburbs have promised these things but not delivered. Although the image below is diagrammatic it looks just like the sort of soulless, windswept shopping arcades we’ve seen so many times.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

I’m telling you again - Europe has a massive brain gain opportunity sitting here. Trump is going to absolutely shaft US science & we could & should be there to hoover up the talent.

submitted 11 days ago • 37 comments

Climate action globally is under threat. It’s hugely urgent to seize initiative from rightwing populists. We need to change tactics: start by building climate resilience in local communities where people can feel tangible benefits – we’re calling it climate popularism. @rupertread.bsky.social & me🧵

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