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An extremely fair point in the midst of it all.....

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Loved this video from @tombabin.bsky.social unpacking why the dominant narrative about Paris' biking boom is incomplete. Yes, it is a bummer that your city doesn't have an Anne Hidalgo — but it was really advocates who pushed her to make good on her promises, and you can push your mayor, too.

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Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.

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Well worth 25 minutes of your time.....

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Wonderful interview! Omar's comment "Whose non existence is essential to this project?" really hits home on the privilege some us enjoy that implicitly rests on exploitation of our fellow human beings. A wider analysis of how we conveniently "other" to justify acts such as the genocide in Gaza

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REALLY worth reading. Gessen is Russian-American and lived under autocratic rule. She knows of what she speaks. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/o...

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what if what if the most powerful country in the work sliding towards fascism and insanity actually creates a generative, grassroots response, a flourishing of cooperation, solidarity and subsidiarity, a flowering of participatory politics, of mutual aid and reciprocal support

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I know this is not in our own backyard....but honestly there are no words for Musk & his ilk. Gutting the best of public services! This piece is also a lovely reflection on meaning & purpose people find in serving their communities.

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Three years on, car-free Capel Street: “We need to be able to make these bold moves” After three years of a car-free Capel Street, central area councillors have expressed a broad consensus that it has been a massive success with only some limited issues. A written report presented to councillors…

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Drop everything and read this brilliant @charlescmann.bsky.social essay on how modern agriculture feeds the world. Fertilizer, irrigation, and genetics! www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...

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This episode's conversation with a Heritage Foundation flak perfectly captures the extent to which a central project of the US conservative movement has been to undermine citizens' belief in the existence or possibility of "a public good." Do we live in a society? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

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Really amazing initiative. Only 1% of Ireland's land is native forestry. We are practically a biodiversity desert! Ways of creating more forestry cover, improving natural biodiversity while creating wildlife corridors would be incredible for this island.

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A great article promoting local seasonal & sustainable flower growers instead of your normal supermarket bouquet.....make your hard earned money count & not line the pockets of the romantic industrial complex (It's a published term ppl 😁) FlowerFarmersOfIreland.ie.

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Draining the world's peatlands for farming and mining is releasing so much CO2 that if it was a country, it would be the 4th biggest polluter in the world after China, the US, + India. And the associated losses in biodiversity are vast. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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"Parklife" painted for Moseley Hive, at the entrance to Moseley Park, 2024.

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This is well worth your time....

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Really great piece by @seamas.bsky.social Stewart Lee talked about political correctness in his stand up as "an often clumsy negotiation to a more formally inclusive language" & is another great take on this topic. Anyone in public eye who uses woke as pejorative term is a deeply unserious person.

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Early Spring like weather on the inland Dorset patch today, with my first Peacock. Also a pair of Frogs moving overland towards a breeding pond. 3 Stonechat still present. Much bird song, including Marsh Tit. @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social #UKWildlife

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Yesterday, I returned from 3 weeks in Costa Rica, where I went to find out what can be learned from their spectacular success rewilding a country. I cannot overstate how awe-inspiring the trip was: nature loss CAN be reversed on a huge scale, benefiting everyone.

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I concur with Daniel 😁 Great article from Ketan advocating for renewable energy development that elevates "both community groups and environmentalists as valuable contributors to the collective process of siting clean energy" Definitely worth a follow....

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Brilliant read from Laurie - worth a few minutes of your time

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The most painful thing is the realization that we have built and accepted such an extraordinary digital panopticon that the kinds of social movements necessary may be much more difficult than we have dared to imagine.

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Excellent summary of U.K. govt approach to national revitalization. It's becoming incredibly damaging to its own brand......

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Pretty accurate from what I have seen so far 😆

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Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this. Smashed records. Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

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