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“As soldiers, we understand that a group is more important than its individual parts. Those who have fought understand this power of human connection that allows us to achieve things beyond our imagination. We call it brotherhood; some might call it love.” Simon Edwards

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“These companies are keeping the world hooked on fossil fuels with no plans to slow production,” said Christiana Figueres, www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Recommended listen: To mark International Women’s Day, Costa Rican diplomat and former UN climate chief, Christiana Figueres, was joined by top climate scientist Dr @katharinehayhoe.com on her @outrageoptimism.bsky.social‬ podcast to discuss why ignoring women endangers the climate.

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How can journalists cover climate change more effectively? Lots of great tips in this piece from Christiana Figueres, one of architects of the Paris Agreement. "We have to be very creative and meet people where they are," she says reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/keep-th...

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"While politicians tend to frame opposition to net zero as the need to protect business, most businesses do not want climate policies to be weakened. What businesses crave is clarity and stability. Those jumping on anti-net zero bandwagon are offering neither." Simon Nixon @prospectmagazine.co.uk

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"Architecture and urban planning have always been a playground for the powerful. By leaving your imprint on a city, you make sure your political legacy will not be erased from the country’s memory." Bénédicte Eustache @prospectmagazine.co.uk

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"In a debate that affects the lives of many and sometimes vulnerable people, a bit more honesty would help." @rowanmoore.bsky.social

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The NMGH project would exemplify how to free up hospital space and allow people to “age in place” with the type of support ordinarily provided in a care home made available to the whole neighbourhood on a flexible basis. Prof Stefan White

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A few years ago, it was incredibly hard to pitch PFAS stories in the UK media. Now it's featuring in Homes & Gardens Magazine. Thanks to The Ends Report, Guardian & BBC Costing the Earth, the 1st outlets to let us cover an obscure story that's grown & grown. www.homesandgardens.com/living/best-...

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John King captured footage of a 100-metre-tall fire tornado only 50 metres from his back door. Fire analysts say the phenomenon is becoming more common as the climate changes.

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There is something refreshingly honest about the way in which the fossil fuel majors are now showing their cards. The masks are down. The gloves are off. www.pv-magazine.com/2025/04/17/t...

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Every day use of fossil fuels should feel like a disaster. Deepwater Horizon cost BP more than $65 billion — but if that oil had been captured, sold, and used, it would have been worse for the environment, killed more people and animals, but BP would have made money. gwagner.com/risky-climat...

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The vast majority of new arrivals in Australia end up in our capital cities. Experts and locals weigh in on how it's affecting our housing crisis.

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The policies of both parties designed to increase housing supply are fine — they're just nowhere near enough.

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Climate skeptics say there's no evidence the current phase of climate change is entirely due to human activities. Some even claim that temperatures are not rising. Here's a🧵collecting evidence that current global warming is entirely human-made. 1/

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'Since 1950, Montlake has experienced massive infrastructure changes, on the one hand, and virtually zero residential changes, on the other hand.' montlake should be an entire car-light ecodistrict with homes for thousands. instead it is full of $2M homes and a history of colonization & exclusion

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We're nearing the time when we stop rebuilding in some brittle places for financial reasons. But we often ignore that cycles of repeated destruction and rebuilding are, in themselves, ecological/climate catastrophes. Avoiding such cycles everywhere we can is critical for sustainability.

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This is really important: the reason electricity prices are high is the high cost of gas & that market rate is set by gas prices. One of the loudest calls at Everything Electric last week was to decouple from gas prices, so we benefit from cheaper renewables. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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"GE Vernova’s orders for onshore and offshore wind turbines nearly halved last year, and the company announced it was no longer taking new offshore orders and downsizing the business." @financialtimes.com

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"Artists, writers and architects have layered the area with significance, and developed a unique approach to living with nature, most evident through the work of the River Bend house architect Alistair Knox, and Landscape architect Gordon Ford." @archdaily-poster.bsky.social

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"Passion is so easily achieved by those on the far right or far left; it's much harder to thump the table when you are advocating for compromise." Richard Glover @smhaustralia.nzcow.com

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‘Bordering on incredible’: Coalition under fire for planning to scrap Labor climate policies and offering none of its own, by @adammorton.bsky.social and @readfearn.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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"You can’t buy moderation. You can’t build or grow your way to civic sanity... Something in the training of elites has left them thorough materialists." Japan Ganesh @financialtimes.com

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Sharing this because it's such a brilliant interview. You get the sense both interviewer (David Marchese) + interviewee (Lady Gaga) are being very honest with each other, and we could sure do with more transparent honesty in the world right now.

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‘The argument for a green power transition is not just one of climate breakdown but social justice and national security’ #NetZero www.theguardian.com/politics/com...

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'She mines sand at the Mwamphanzi River, even though she knows this makes the flooding worse. "We don't have any other choice. Like today, I left early in the morning leaving children without even porridge"'. The women mining sand to make our concrete: www.context.news/socioeconomi...

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"The robust architecture was kept deliberately simple, instead championing the surprisingly lush laneway garden that runs the full length of the block giving every room a leafy green view." MA+Co Architects

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“The majority of the timber-frame homes in England will have a brick outer skin. I think it is quite deep in the psychology for planning, [and] in the psychology for the consumer,” said David Thomas, chief executive of Barratt Redrow” (He doesn’t realise his job is to shift that) on.ft.com/42F8iCY

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Australia’s housing crisis is a key election issue. The future of some Sydney boarding homes threatened by luxury builds highlights the complexity of the issue, Frances Du reports: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-18/sydney-boarding-homes-threatened-by-luxury-builds-as-prices-soar

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"This is not a partisan issue, it’s simply the truth about how oil and coal and deforestation have affected our planet." Rainn Wilson

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Opinion: The seemingly intractable problem that the U.S. can actually solve, by Catherine Coleman Flowers in @latimes.com

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Catherine Coleman Flowers = ❤️‍🔥 Read the full interview - @capitalandmain.bsky.social capitalandmain.com/trump-epa-ch...

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Big congrats to Mike Bloomberg, Catherine Coleman Flowers & all the honorees on TIME’s 2025 #EarthAwards! 🌍👏 Your leadership in climate action is driving meaningful progress toward a healthier, more resilient planet. 🌱💙 Read more: bit.ly/43Xgr7P

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"All models are wrong – some are useful," says statistician George Box. Engineering models have assumptions and limitations. Safe design requires recognizing these to prevent disasters: buff.ly/LarPm92 Zachary del Rosario @olincollege.bsky.social

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Wood is the New Black House / Java Architecture - https://www.archdaily.com/1028998/wood-is-the-new-black-house-java-architecture

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Spaces for Wellness: Integrating Fitness into Everyday Environments - https://www.archdaily.com/936042/13-design-solutions-to-organize-your-workout-at-home

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#housing is a global crisis, pretty much every country has some variation on the same set of problems around availability, affordability and amenity. “The waiting time to buy a house with a worker’s housing allowance has reached 580 years.”

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Policymakers must adopt multifaceted strategies: > Expanding affordable housing initiatives > Revising tax policies > Strengthening anti-discrimination measures > Reforming zoning laws to encourage diverse housing development > Providing protections for renters @cepr.org

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We should speak from conscience, not for whatever polls well, and if we speak enough and well enough we shift the conversation, shift what people care about. We have, again and again. Because so many don't participate, we don't need absolute majorities; we can go far with passionate minorities.

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Love that this column pretends Las Vegas is some model for how to do this well (it’s really not) and that the current federal government would do anything to fix the fundamentals problems with building housing on public lands (sprawl and unaffordable homes). www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/o...

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If you care about the UK, please read this. By @iandunt.bsky.social iandunt.substack.com/p/the-battle...

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Incredibly cool. And reminds me of this column I wrote, about Miranda from "Sex and the City" implicitly nudging people to choose plant-based proteins by changing her order at Chipotle: www.latimes.com/environment/...

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