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Chair of Dengie Climate Action Partnership, Founder member of eMpower Maldon. Former Chair of Permaculture Association UK. Opinions my own. Centre for Human Ecology alumnus. Born@ 323.57ppm, Pop. 3.82bn Fiat d58. Ω ✈ 30/8/06 #DengieBioregion
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Huge win! Government announces plans to open up the Land Registry. If delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wales. Read my blog post for more details & how you can write to the Minister to make sure this now happens: whoownsengland.org/2025/03/06/h... 🧵1/

Some inspiring stuff in the latest @colchestercycling.bsky.social newsletter Particularly the Greenway community plan for a path running from Halstead to Kelvedon via Earls Colne & Coggeshall eocampaign1.com/web-version/...

There's something gloriously Utopian, in this blurb line for Michael Hutchinson's Re:Cyclists: 200 Years on Two Wheels 'The Victorian love of cycling started with penny-farthing riders, who explored lonely roads that had been left abandoned by the coming of the railways'

Station Arms, Southminster #DengieBioregion

Дьявол всегда забирает свои подарки обратно

You can’t polish a turd but you can roll it in glitter

This kind of visioning offers transport solutions that are fit for the 21st century. More of this across the UK, please! Bravo @transportaction.bsky.social transportactionnetwork.org.uk/wp-content/u...

The Seventh Carbon Budget is a disappointing document. Particularly frustrating around demand reduction, transport futures and the chimeras of SAF, CCS, DAC www.theccc.org.uk/publication/...

Hi all, The next Dengie Climate Action Partnership meeting is this Thursday 27 February @ Burnham Town Council chamber, Chapel Road, Burnham-on-Crouch CM0 8JA Before our meeting, we have a guest speaker

There's a concerning lack of clarity about how local democracy will work under devolution. Also, why is there no mention of PR? reform.uk/comment/weig...

An inspirational vision that could be mirrored in Maldon district #rECOnnectDengie

But I'm still not happy, I feel like there's something wrong I got the devolution blues dengiebioregion.wordpress.com/2025/02/19/y...

Two-thirds an Eiffel Tower, the Eye of Sauron, climate denial is alive & well in Burnham, Shinrin-yoku, Americans were always already eating like the world had fallen, Mega Libraries & the Veluwemeer Aqueduct give me hope for the world - its Weeknotes dengiebioregion.wordpress.com/2025/02/17/w...

I feared devolution in Essex would derail strategic planning on climate issues That seems to be proving true Public consultation on the draft Transport Strategy for Essex (LTP4) & the programme of planned investment in different parts of Essex was scheduled for Winter 24/25

Creative trespass and wild camping are the most well known techniques of tactical ruralism, what else is in the toolbox?

I'm pleased to see some permaculture + urbanism conversation @edenicity.bsky.social youtu.be/ZVsWevJKhZ8?...

Feels like the history rhymes clock went from 1936 to 1939 in the last few days

The Story of the King’s Highway (1913)

Ra-ra-Rasputin

Western countries going for ‘net-zero’ by 2050 is like an elite athletic team having the goal of a yet unborn competitor winning a bronze medal in 6 Olympics time while secretly just hoping they’ll qualify for the games

I’m looking to commission a feasibility study for a cycle route between two neighbouring settlements in rural Essex but don’t know where to start. Any recommendations on who could do this work and/or ballpark cost for this type of work? (I have a potential funding opportunity)

I loved the mega library in the latest Srsly Wrong Les bibliothèques ou la barbarie!

Weeknotes: Local Transport, Local Energy, Local Elections. Big Mills on the Marshes? Reform UK on the rise? Making Modal Shift Manifest?!?!? #Dengie #Essex dengiebioregion.wordpress.com/2025/02/09/w...

I'm looking for a better diagram/illustration of this subject than the one I just knocked up in Canva - does anyone have a link to something similar?

This sort of thing feels so sensible. A programme in France to retrofit rural roads so there is a bike path running alongside them. In this case to the local hospital

This is Fine www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“For rural businesses to thrive and provide the jobs that local communities desperately need, we must adopt a holistic approach. First and foremost, serious investment in public transport is essential.“

Small is to Modular Reactor as Garden is to Suburb

‘catastrophe models… will “signal” to people in “risky” areas that they should move’ lpeproject.org/blog/the-ins... #ManagedRetreat or Distressed Rout

6 months is NOT a ’lengthy driving ban’ for a repeat offender Speed kills Livelihood impacts should not mitigate sentencing Exceptional hardship clauses must be removed to ensure road safety Celebrity get-outs destroy trust in the system & model moral hazard www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Back to Mellanby Can Britain Feed Itself? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The YouGov poll lead for Reform UK raises the questions: what does their Project 2029 look like? And how will the outcomes of the Trump presidential term alter it?

The proposed Dengie Marshes Wind Farm is holding consultation events this week Thurs 6 Feb 3-7pm Southminster Memorial Hall, Southminster Sat 8 Feb 12-4pm Burnham Village Hall, 2 Arcadia Road, Burnham-on-Crouch More details on the issues arising: dengiebioregion.wordpress.com/2025/02/05/d...

From the conclusion of the Maldon District Future Transport Strategy consultation [2023] report (I've just received this in response to an FOI request) Over 25% of people in the district do not use a car for their most common journey. respondents wanted viable alternatives to the car.

Weeknotes. dengiebioregion.wordpress.com/2025/02/03/w...