Background image of a lilac flower. Text says: Happy Earth Day! Earth Day is a time to reflect on our relationship with the planet and take action to protect it. It's time to act to protect our planet.
On Earth Day, grateful for forests, oceans, animals, and possibilities.
Let’s take better care of what takes care of us. 🌎💙
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#EarthDay
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Bloom. 🌸 The Big Blooming Break is here & we’ve teamed up with the @nationaltrust.org.uk to bring you 14 brand-new blossom walks across the UK.
From Manchester to London, Newcastle to Cardiff, your towns & cities are blooming.
Go enjoy the blooms now! 👀
📍 Find your walk on the free Go Jauntly app 📲
“I was brainwashed by Nigel Farage.”
We asked people in East Wiltshire, the constituency of Danny Kruger, if Brexit was a mistake. Here's what they said. ⬇️
Write to your local paper to show it is time to talk about EU membership: www.bestforbritain.org/write_to_paper_eu_member...
When we promised to pay the energy bills of everyone in the street, we meant it in the same way as when we promised to cut council tax.
🟨 Print Edition — Finally, Big Tech is Being Put on Trial
Two recent verdicts finding social media companies liable for harms suffered by users have, for the first time…
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Spain is crushing it ⚡🇪🇸
Solar is delivering the equivalent of 27 nuclear plants during the day. Pumped hydro stores ~3 nuclear plants worth. Batteries already stepping in.
This isn’t a generation problem anymore. It’s storage scale.
Energy scarcity → energy timing. #BESS #Solar
Lilac tree
Ladybug on nettle
Bluebells in woods
A walk in nature always restores me
Buchcover des Buches "Die Aussiedlung" von Andras Visky
Ein bedrückender Roman zum rumänischen Gulag, der ein Thema aufgreift, das in Europa meist vergessen wird. Andras Visky hat mit "Die Aussiedlung" ein eindrucksvolles Buch vorgelegt. #Lesen @suhrkamp.de
50,000 members of the young greens
Ciara and Callum quote as co-chairs of the young greens.
WOW.
Our @younggreens.bsky.social now have 50,000 members - they are the biggest political youth movement in the UK.
And we're growing. Every single day I am meeting more young greens out on the streets campaigning.
This is how we make change happen.
Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
Green Library Hubs title, CILIP and Community Fund logos, image of a girl planting on the right side, sub title - LAST DAY TODAY, APPLY by 5pm!
Today's the last day to apply to join the Green Library Hub project for year 2!
Open to all public library authorities across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Deadline: TODAY, 5pm
Apply now:- https://www.cilip.org.uk/page/GreenLibraryHubs
Nothing has changed and this (and other climate-related stuff) remains the most important issue of all. But nowadays, such news barely event make it into the news cycle, and the policymakers/polititians keep blabbing about 'competitiveness' and 'removing red tape'.
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth mistakenly presented the made-up scripture as genuine Bible verse - and he's being trolled for quoting the gospel of Quentin Tarantino.
Important Work
Meghan Markle, wife of Prince Harry, said during a roundtable discussion in Australia that she had been "bullied and attacked" on social media every day for a decade and was "the most trolled person in the entire world".
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#CapturingCreativity2026 #CapturingCreativityFridayFika
“The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants, yet it is held together by a multitude of supportive brothers and sisters,” Leo said in a speech during a visit to Cameroon’s largest city, Bamenda, on Thursday. Putin, Trump, Netanyahu... this means you. www.wthitv.com/news/pope-wa...
Mount Fuji in the distance and cherry blossoms at the front
🌱📚 April Copyright Reads 2026 is here!
Fresh reads for springtime, covering copyright, AI, open research, and the latest in sustainability.
Perfect for a sunny break ☀️(at least hopefully it is sunny were you are)
👉 blog.lboro.ac.uk/rdm/2026/04/...
#Copyright #OpenResearch
#Plastik kann Fettleibigkeit verursachen, bestimmte Krebsarten fördern, unfruchtbar machen
Es wurden schon Krokodilmännchen mit inneren weiblichen Organen gefunden
Tiere die nicht mehr brüten
uvm
Immer mehr Verhaltensänderungen, die auch uns treffen werden
takes one click, no personal info required; you know what to do... #brexit
It’s an actual NYT headline. Not the Onion. I checked. 😂
Corsican Omelette is #RecipeOfTheDay! To make it properly Corsican, the cheese you’d need for it is Brocciu, but since that doesn’t really exist beyond Corsica, soft goat’s cheese does the trick – but it’s the addition of fresh mint that really makes it sing.
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"Countries around the world are rushing to add renewable energy such as solar power after the Iran war throttled Middle East oil and gas supplies. It is a boon for Beijing, because the technology often comes from China."
"Don't wanna be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media"
Portugal has one of the lowest utilisation rates for recycled materials in the EU, at only three per cent in 2024.
An image of a burrow owl with text: Live, laugh, learn about copyright
I have been interviewed about copyright, because copyright is cool, mostly, well, for me anyway.
Have a read: creativelivesinprogress.com/articles/wha...
Denmark didn’t “transition” its grid—it replaced it.
~15% → 92% renewable electricity in 25 years.
Wind did the heavy lifting. Solar is scaling. Interconnection balanced. Flexibility solved variability.
Wind built it. Solar is scaling. Fossil lost it.
This IS system replacement. ⚡#Bettrification
