offer of fully-funded solar & battery storage for households in Langney ward of Eastbourne

We're helping to bring fully-funded #solar & battery storage to households across #Eastbourne, starting in Langney. Lowers energy bills from day 1. No upfront cost. Want to know more? Come to launch on 30th April 2026, 6:30pm to 8:00pm, at St Barnabas Church, Kingfisher Drive, Eastbourne, BN23 7RA.

Record number of homes in Great Britain turn to green energy as fuel prices soar Iran war drives demand for solar panels, heat pumps and EVs, with energy bills expected to rise 18% from July

Record number of homes in Great Britain turn to green energy as fuel prices soar

Iran war drives demand for solar panels, heat pumps and EVs, with energy bills expected to rise 18% from July

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Britain breaks solar energy record twice as UK’s biggest solar farm gets approval Record high set on Monday and raised on Tuesday, with 14.4GW of electricity generated in sunny spring weather

Clean, safe, cheap, renewable energy that you don't have to fight deadly wars or destroy the environment to get.

Good for wildlife, too, when done properly.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

offer of fully-funded solar & battery storage for households in Langney ward of Eastbourne

We're helping to bring fully-funded #solar & battery storage to households across #Eastbourne, starting in Langney. Lowers energy bills from day 1. No upfront cost. Want to know more? Come to launch on 30th April 2026, 6:30pm to 8:00pm, at St Barnabas Church, Kingfisher Drive, Eastbourne, BN23 7RA.

Vote Low Traffic Why Vote Low Traffic? The May 2026 local elections in England are a key opportunity to shape the future of transport in your local area. They take place at a time of global instability in oil prices,...

Transport is a huge household expense. 📉 By making walking, cycling, and public transport safer and easier, we can lower the cost of travel for everyone.

See how to advocate for cheaper, fairer travel options:
🔗 lowtrafficfuture.org.uk/vote-low-tra...

#CostOfLiving #SafeStreets

We’re providing the booking platform for the free tickets to view the local community screenings of the new #ClimateEmergency film released by the National Emergency Briefing team. Book for the first #Eastbourne screening on April 14th here: www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticket...

1️⃣ The #climate & #nature crisis isn’t a future issue. It threatens all aspects of British life now and demands urgent action.

Ten top experts briefed MPs and other influential people at the National Emergency Briefing in Westminster.

Clips from each talk in this thread. 🧵👇
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp

BYD hails windfall as Iran oil crisis supercharges Chinese EV outlook Wang Chuanfu predicts 'another level' of overseas sales, lifting goal by 15%: sources

Crowdsourcing electrotech surge in Iran war!
lets use #DemandDestructionWatch

BYD is now doing a fortnight's worth of sales each day
"Wang singled out markets such as Australia,New Zealand.., where he said daily sales volumes are now as high as what the carmaker could previously sell in two weeks"

The @eastbournebc.bsky.social Carbon report revisits all the previous years of carbon data for #Airbourne, including updated figures for 2025. A revised methodology corrected previous overestimates in visitor travel emissions.

Council publishes carbon neutral update - Lewes and Eastbourne Councils The update refreshes the original Carbon Neutral 2030 strategy adopted in 2020 and provides a detailed overview of council-led and community-led climate action. It also outlines how national policy ch...

The latest government data shows that @eastbournebc.bsky.social total greenhouse gas emissions fell to 257 ktCO₂e in 2023, a 24.4% 🔽since 2018.

www.lewes-eastbourne.gov.uk/article/4993...

🚌🚏satisfaction survey for 2025 @eastsussexcc.bsky.social area's overall satisfaction was 87% - same in 2024 . (This is well up from 2023 - 79%)
Ranked 19th place ( For England)
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The IEA's Fatih Birol has called the 2026 Iran war the greatest energy security crisis in history. The numbers behind that claim are stark.

These figures are striking but they are not directly comparable.

Here is why. 🧵

The #IranWar is making the case for #renewables such as #wind & #solar as never before. Fab, as our #EnergyChampions have formed an exciting partnership with a local #CommunityEnergy cooperative to significantly scale up #solar installations in one of the poorer wards of #Eastbourne. Details soon.

Try and use Public Transport on 17th April to support this worldwide event 🚌🚋🚉

Graphic showing a ca congestion-filled road, with three cigarette packs in front referencing car dependency, one titled gas, the second titled hybrid and the third titled EV. The main text says “TASTE THE FREEDOM.“ The bottom has the logo of the urban truth collective.

Cigarette companies tried to sell us “better” cigarettes that were “light,” in the hopes that we would stay addicted & end up buying MORE cigarettes. But the right public policy answer was less/NO smoking.

And OBVIOUSLY smoking wasn’t going to be allowed EVERYWHERE.

Same with cars.

#UrbanTruth

Open letter urges UK ministers to unlock potential of community energy Community Energy England and coalition of civil society organisations, businesses and public figures urge government to back community energy

A nice bit of coverage of our #UpTheEnegy open letter in @coopnews.bsky.social

Open letter urges UK ministers to unlock potential of community energy www.thenews.coop/open-letter-...

#CommunityEnergy

New warning signs installed on Eastbourne road New warning signs on Beachy Head Road have been installed, East Sussex Highways has confirmed.

Campaigners wanted real safety changes, such as reduced speed or calming, and they got paint.
www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/transpo...

Letter to the editor: Use it or lose it! Why choosing the bus now can protect local routes tomorrow. Next time you see a bus glide past with a handful of seats empty, it’s easy to shrug and think: someone else will keep that route going. But...

www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/opinion...

A damming indictment of social media and the lack of scientific rigour in the posts

Opinion: Low Traffic Neighbourhoods coming near you in Eastbourne and Wealden

How new housing estates do not work for the rest of the residents in @eastbournebc.bsky.social and @wealdendc.bsky.social

bournefreelive.co.uk/opinion-low-...

Interesting order for fuel types. Normally CNG(as) is considered greener than diesel ( Checked this is what 'gas' is for Fr and Gr)

Storm Pedro brings flooding to France as Spain braces for 11th big storm in six weeks Western Europe has been battered by a relentless spate of major storms in quick succession, forcing evacuations and school closures

And, hot on the heels of #15, here's Iberia's 16th named storm of the winter.
11 in the six weeks.

This is fine birding holiday weather.

Stagecoach South West to roll out 110 electric buses with 7.2 MW depot charging network - Sustainable Bus Stagecoach has confirmed a £29.3 million investment to bring more than 100 battery-electric buses into service across the county...

Stagecoach South West rolling out 110 electric buses.

www.sustainable-bus.com/electric-bus...

Nice write-up of interview with me and my colleagues about our Energy Champions voluntary work in #Eastbourne, much of which deals with #fuelpoverty.

www.energisesussexcoast.co.uk/engaging-wit...

Q&A: New UK onshore wind and solar is ‘50% cheaper’ than new gas - Carbon Brief The UK government has secured a record 7.4 gigawatts of solar, onshore wind and tidal power in its latest auction for new renewable capacity.

"These results show once again that clean British power is the right choice for our country, agreeing a price for new onshore wind and solar that is over 50% cheaper than the cost of building and operating new gas.” - Ed Miliband, UK energy secretary: www.carbonbrief.org/qa-new-uk-on... 🔌💡

Letter to the editor: 'No new buses until the road is fixed' The ongoing problem over the ‘slope’ at Cornfield Road has got to be resolved, if we want new buses in Eastbourne

No new 'low emission' Stagecoach buses until the 'slope' is 'fixed ' by @eastsussexcc.bsky.social

www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/opinion...

Chance of El Niño forming in Pacific Ocean may push global temperatures to record highs in 2027 One expert says 2027 could be even hotter than the last three years, which have been the top three warmest on record

Chance of #ElNiño forming in Pacific Ocean may push global temperatures to record highs in 2027

#climatecrisis
Story by @readfearn.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Four polar stereographic maps showing Arctic near-surface air temperature anomalies for the month of February in 1985-1994, 1995-2004, 2005-2014, and 2015-2024. Most all areas are observing long-term warming, which is largest at the edges of the Arctic Ocean on the Atlantic and Pacific facing marginal seas.

Look how fast the Arctic Ocean is warming during the month of February over the last four decades...

Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.

We're proud to be a community partner of the Eastbourne Farmers Market, which resumes on Saturday 7th February, & where you can buy fresh organic produce from local farmers whose regenerative agricultural practices help ensure local food security & resilience in the face of rapid #ClimateChange.

Accounting for methane from natural gas infrastructure in United States greenhouse gas emission estimates The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that United States net greenhouse gas emissions have declined over the last two decades and are no…

Methane pollution from US oil and gas infrastructure causes more climate change than the entire economies of all but seven nations on earth.

(This is with methane's climate impacts conservatively evaluated over a 100-year time frame. Evaluated over shorter time frames, methane's impacts are worse.)