Can you imagine a just and sustainable world, where all life can thrive?
On this #EarthDay, we are reminded that #TransformativeChange is challenging, but necessary, urgent, and possible.
🌎 More with Earthday.org: https://ow.ly/tOlh50YNQ5m
📚 #TransformativeChange: https://ow.ly/Tth750YNsMY
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Today's reminder for those planning long-term sea-defence
- AND for the liars currently plugging the fiction that climate-change isn't caused by burning fossil fuels.
So, here's @labourtogether.bsky.social lobbying for a neoliberal influencing group pushing an old #YimbyLobby favourite.
Is it any wonder Government planning policy is such a destructive failure?
Meanwhile, in the home of large power- and water-hungry data centres...
And so the sprawl goes on...
So, "non-military experts" in HM Treasury are undermining our national defence & security.
Anyone who's followed planning, environmental management or housing policy will have watched the Treasury spending years undermining policy in those areas too.
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Can anyone explain why it's taken Whitehall three years since the whole of #HS2 Phase 2 was scrapped to work out the rolling stock would need to change?
Too much to hope that the DfT realises the whole of Phase 1 needs adapting to its new role of course.
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Image of one of many pedestrianized Montreal streets turned into a people place, with the phrase “we could never do THAT in OUR city” over top. The tagline at the bottom says “leadership doesn’t make excuses.” Via the Urban Truth Collective.
If your city leaders see something AMAZING that another city is doing but claim “we could never do THAT in OUR city,” don’t believe them.
Leadership doesn’t make excuses. It takes action. #UrbanTruth
“Even as the cost of infrastructure for active transportation is being used as a reason for inaction, evidence is accumulating that when the full economic cost is considered, driving costs society more, while cycling and other forms of active transportation save society money.”— @sflkirk.bsky.social
a two panel meme with no text of anakin and padme in star war
So now the strait is open all of the fossil fuel subsidies, fossil tax cuts and weakening of environmental regulations wil be set back to normal, right?
An interactive map to help you find a screening near you of our new film hosted by @chrisgpackham.bsky.social…
The People’s Emergency Briefing, launching tomorrow.
www.nebriefing.org/screening-map
#PEBuk #NationalEmergencyBriefing
Food security timebomb from Gulf fertiliser blockade
1/3 of global fertiliser raw materials pass through the Strait of Hormuz, with conflict threatening global food supplies.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/...
Another major screening of the People's Emergency Briefing now confirmed - in the 800 capacity Great Hall at @lancasteruni.bsky.social.
It will be chaired by Professor @mikebernerslee.bsky.social who chaired the event in Westminster.
Tickets: www.lancasterarts.org/youre-invite...
#PEBuk
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Robotaxis: Silicon Valley's found another way to endanger children!
A School District Tried to Help Train Waymos to Stop for School Buses. It Didn’t Work
www.wired.com/story/a-scho...
Politicians surrendering to oil-industry lobbyists, political opportunists and #denialists "flooding the zone" with lies should remember that, once they've given in to the #DenialistScam, they'll always have to give in to such campaigns in future.
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BLOG It's the 25 year Silver Jubilee of the launch of the Treasury plan to degrade and destroy our planning system.
Is it time planning students emulated economics students and demanded a profession that meets 21st century challenges?
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The latest (2024) greenhouse gas statistics show domestic transport now represents 30% of UK emissions.
Around 90% of these emissions are from road transport and represent a failure of current policies.
Professor @mikebernerslee.bsky.social poses some questions we should all consider in his powerful summing up at the #NationalEmergencyBriefing in Westminster Central Hall.
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
Railway station at sunset with a train in the distance pulling into the station
More than 60 years since the infamous Beeching Report led to the closure of large parts of the rail network, this blog looks at whether the current rail reforms provide an opportunity to embed reopening rail lines and railway stations in law.
👉 bettertransport.org.uk/blog/the-bee...
Infographic explaining species numbers that could be lost under high climate change and intensifying land use
New UKCEH-led study warns of closing 20-year window in which decisions on climate & land use will determine fate of 200+ species of native #birds, #butterflies & #plants across Britain.
But sustainable climate & land policies would save many of the species.
www.ceh.ac.uk/press/we-hav...
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Commenting on news that Badenoch is to launch a campaign calling for Britain to maximise oil and gas reserves, Dr Simon Cran-McGreehin, @eciu.net said:
“Experts are clear that more North Sea drilling would have little if any impact on gas prices in the UK"
eciu.net/media/press...
Never forget, for many years Uber insisted it would reduce traffic in cities. Instead, Uber drivers cruise without passengers 40% of the time. Uber & Lyft no longer claim they reduce traffic. They now admit they increase congestion.
Now boosters lie about driverless cars. Don’t believe them either.
“I was expecting an attack on climate science,” @drkatemarvel.bsky.social said. “But actually, who they went after 1st was pediatric cancer & Parkinson’s research, and childhood vaccines. I was completely unprepared for an attack on science, because it’s a means of finding out & telling the truth.”
Commenting on coverage of a Government report which warns that Britain's food supply is “at strategic risk of catastrophic failure”, @tommlancaster.bsky.social, @eciu.net said:
"The report’s findings are incredibly stark, including for our ability to feed ourselves"
eciu.net/media/press...
In Busan, South Korea, the signing ceremony for our cooperation agreement.
I’m delighted to see this innovative urban policy being rolled out across the city.
The ‘15-minute city’ concept is at the heart of these wonderful urban transformations for a livable city, and I’m very proud.
Follow the ‘15´
A key issue in reopening lines is to identify those with potential - and to get planning safeguards for the trackbeds to protect them from development.
Out 2020 report Defending Our Lines covered this and suggested many candidates.
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On the anniversary of the disastrous Beeching Report, our blog makes the case for more lines to be reopened. #ReverseBeeching
"Time and again, government forecasts underestimate how many people will use rail services once they return."
Read the blog: bettertransport.org.uk/blog/the-bee...
