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The @thecccuk.bsky.social has published its Seventh Carbon Budget advice showing that we need to maintain momentum on net zero for a cleaner, healthier and eventually cheaper future. #CB7 Here’s what executive director @shaunspiers1.bsky.social had to say 👇

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Random fact of the day: There are more saunas in Finland, than cars. Let's continue keeping the numbers this way, please 😊 #MeanwhileInFinland 🇫🇮

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Would you like to be part of the team here at Flight Free UK? We are hiring a Communications Officer to manage our social media output: environmentjob.co.uk/jobs/104890-...

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A brilliant article on how promoting road schemes (dualling, extensions, bypasses) appear as logical technical solutions but sustainable transport schemes are framed as political choices. open.substack.com/pub/omerbor/...

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Deep breath friends

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A flea treatment of a medium-sized dog contains enough pesticide to kill 60 million bees About 80% of the UK total of 22 million cats & dogs get regular over-the-counter worm & flea treatment, whether suffering from an infestation or not www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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#Ukrainecast - the war 3 years on What was going on in the corridors of power when Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine took place? A senior US diplomat & UK politician look back on the third anniversary & look ahead to what happens next www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Deep in Young Wood, the highest fragment of temperate rainforest remaining in England. You can appreciate its awesome beauty from this picture. Once, much of the Lake District was like this. And: it will be, again… Thanks to Guy Shrubsole, for encouraging me to finally visit this place!

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EXCLUSIVE: New York’s congestion pricing plan raised $48.6M in tolls during its first month, a strong start that exceeded expectations. The revenue figures, expected to be released publicly on Monday by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, are the latest sign that the tolling plan is working.

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Just got complimented on my parking. My bike parking, to be clear. “That was a bit nifty, I must say” said a gentleman as I reversed my bike into a tight spot. Love Oxford!

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£83.1 billion 💷 🇬🇧 💪 Between 2023 and 2024, the net zero economy grew 10.1% and now generates £83.1 billion in Gross Value Added (GVA). eciu.net/analysis/re...

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For The End Climate Silence newsletter this week, I thought about the concept of "resistance." To put it bluntly, I said that "resistance" is a terrible idea to organize on. 🧵

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Spring Hare - by British artist and illustrator, Catherine Rowe #hares #art #wildlifeart #natureart #spring 🌿

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👑 Jane Fonda with a mic drop "Empathy is not weak or "woke." And, by the way, "woke" just means you give a damn about other people."

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Seven ways to reduce your travel footprint flightfree.co.uk

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Not flying is the big one if you want to cut the carbon impact of your holiday. But there are other things you can do too. Our friends at Byway have 7 tips for keeping your holiday footprint small: flightfree.co.uk/post/7-ways-... Use the code FLIGHTFREE2025 to get £50 off a Byway holiday!

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Forget Canada being our 51st state, the US is now part of Russia.

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Seven year old Rona Gordon is doing a 100Km bike ride to raise money to help bat conservation. How amazing is that? #lovebats 🦇 Please support by donating if you can and/or sharing widely www.justgiving.com/page/rona100...

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BP is (was?) likely most progressive of major oil companies But they've just rolled back because...well, investors The view that Big Oil "need to be part of the transition" to net zero, if it ever made sense, is obsolete They just need to be made redundant www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Charles Darwin published his book Descent of Man #OnThisDay in 1871. In it he wrote: "It has often been asserted that man’s origin can never be known, but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."

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Our #BikeBus made the local news late last year! This was my pinned until I purged my old posts, but gosh it’s nice to revisit better times from not long ago. www.cbsnews.com/boston/video...

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Higher revenue IS NOT a sign that the tolling plan is working. The purpose of the toll is to dissuade driving, more toll revenue means more driving.

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A rule of law and global (and by extension, national) security crisis of staggering proportions. We can't afford to let plutocracy continue.

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My “post-pandemic” shyness has been crippling. It wasn’t the symptom I was expecting. I’d imagined something more physical — like a slight limp, or a persistent cough.

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I went from a chatbot, to a broken link, to a phone call with AI, to a conversation with an actual human being this morning, and that human being fixed my problem within 15 seconds. It took me 40 minutes to get to that 15 seconds. Don’t call this “customer-centric”. Just don’t.

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The net zero economy grew 10% last year📈 so it's now worth over £80bn GVA and supports nearly 1 million jobs would be madness to advocate against net zero when it means growth & energy security according to a NEW report with analysis by CBI Economics: eciu.net/media/press-...

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Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says Green sector growing at triple the rate of the UK economy, providing high-wage jobs and increasing energy security #netzero #cimatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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This is the freephone number for the National Domestic Abuse Hotline run by Refuge, and it's for women. More details and this for other groups, including for men and LGTBQ+ people here. It took me 13 years. Please don't wait that long. www.nhs.uk/live-well/ge...

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Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says. Green sector growing at triple the rate of the UK economy, providing high-wage jobs and increasing energy security. #climate #renewables www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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A selection of #ShropshireHillsSunday photos to celebrate our very own Shropshire Day even though the sky today isn’t quite as blue ☔️

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My daughter ran #kidsparkrun this morning in a one-sleeved asymmetric sequin dress she bought in a charity shop yesterday. Proud moment for me. And also just huge thanks to all the amazing #parkrun volunteers.

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s forthcoming special report on climate change and cities has more women than men on its authorship team, for the first time in the organisation’s history, Carbon Brief analysis shows. www.carbonbrief.org/...

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Accidents down 55% and injuries down 51% since nyc congestion pricing (!!!) www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/22/c...

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10m tonnes 🌮 🗑️ ❌ Almost 10 million tons of food is wasted every year in the UK and much of it gets discarded while still edible. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/0...

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"Our streets are now more safe. There has been a 51% decrease in injuries and a 55% decrease in crashes in the congestion relief zone compared to the same period in January 2024."

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💥The 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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Ever ask yourself why so many climate scientists are also cyclists?

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