I almost cried during the Bad Bunny show when I saw the workers repairing the electrical system. I spent years working on Puerto Rico's crisis, and this was the one thing I couldn't resolve before moving to the academy. Thanks to the @lpeblog.bsky.social and @lpeproject.bsky.social for sharing this.
*Job alert* We are advertising two opportunities @manchester.ac.uk, linked to the JUST centre (www.just.ac.uk)
- A Post-Doctoral Research Associate on Social & Built Infrastructure (www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...)
- A PhD on Green Skills & Communities (www.findaphd.com/phds/project...)
Join us in Brussels/online next week (registration closes soon, see below) for an interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral and policy-focused discussion on how to build inclusive and progressive energy futures in Europe and beyond ....
We recently launched an #energyequity campaign within @edrc-uk.bsky.social - see below for the launch webinar link. Key messages focus on the benefits that #energyjustice brings, and the need for inclusive #energytransition framings. #energysky
Wind and solar are the perfect renewable power pairing in Britain💨 ☀️
98% of the time, it is either windy or sunny. Particularly windy days are often cloudier, while very sunny days are usually calmer.
A match made in… Britain! 🤝
https://loom.ly/-pzxBgQ
The piece calls for a grown-up conversation on climate. Let’s start here:
There’s a difference between “we can’t create a truly ecological civilization under capitalism” (true!) and “everything is a lie, we’re doomed, nothing we can do in the next decade is worthwhile” (false!)
Why are we calling the Trump-Pu meeting a "summit", but the Trump-Ze meeting was just a meeting? Ru isn't a great power and can't achieve its goals. Let's stop feeding their delusions of grandeur.
Over a million 'energy-insecure' UK homes have been built in decade since previous government controversially decided to ditch energy efficiency rules that would have enabled new homes to avoid expensive gas bills:
www.businessgreen.com/news/4516130...
Let's challenge terms like "the energy poor" & call out broken system that causes inequities. New paper in @natenergy.nature.com led by @stefanb23.bsky.social w. @kcedano.bsky.social @lld8.bsky.social Tony Reames & Neil Simcock. 1/4
#energysky 🔌💡
Original headline: Your electric bill is rising faster than inflation. Here's why. Addition: Natural gas prices.
The WSJ didn't include the reason in their headline. Must not have had space. I fixed it.
🏡 Who gets energy advice, and who misses out? New research by @stefanb23.bsky.social, Lilia Karpinska, Katherine Sugar and Sławomir Śmiech maps 131 providers across England, revealing major gaps in support. More inclusive, joined-up services are needed.
👉 tinyurl.com/3e6c2p5s
Thank you to the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies @hcas.bsky.social for hosting me at the ‘Environment, Society and Politics’ conference last month. An opportunity to discuss the spectre of right-wing populism re: #justtransitions (and visit a neighbourhood sauna in new-build housing!)
Great Britain pretty much powered by wind and sun right now. The place that literally launched the coal based Industrial Revolution - running on invisible stuff falling from the sky.
And I make fun of religion…
A new report looks at the relationship between climate change and systemic racism.
Only by profiling voices at the heart of the crisis can we create climate policy that actually works 👇
www.runnymedetrust.org/publications/a-vision-for-climate-justice-a-report-from-the-appg-on-race-and-community
This is not an exaggeration: illegally gutting this program will cause Americans to freeze to death in their homes.
Thank you 🙏🙈 and many congratulations to the others!
We know energy transitions are disruptive. Mainstream models represent smooth lines - renewables going up, fossil fuels going down. How then should we think about the disruptive qualities of energy transitions? @manchestersci.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/
AI in education is:
- A political project to get even more private tech into schools and universities
- Habituating children and students to industry-defined and -demanded "jobs of the future"
- Often not actually "AI" ...
Do you not see a problem with the stigmatising and derogatory language used in the paper? Or the statement (using questionable evidence) that chippies are a 'marker of low educational attainment'? All this against a background of long-standing epistemic violence against working-class people/places.
I wouldn’t have commented on it without having read it. I think the paper should be withdrawn and an apology issued.
This will probably get the least attention of all Trump's moves, but it is, in the fullness of history, the most monstrous & genocidal.
100000% this — do not spend time shooting down people who are *doing resistance*: we have to do all the boycotts, protests, lawsuits, ALL OF IT, to minimize harm wherever we can, find the fash's weak spots, and get the normies to realize their lives are fucked unless they do something.
If someone wants to write a response to this nonsense, I have a suggestion for the graphical abstract
Thank you Paul! At the national scale (27 EU member states), we found that renewable energy investment decreases energy-related injustices, while changes in GDP do not have a discernible effect. In our model, long-term unemployment and income inequality emerged as the key drivers of #energypoverty.
I think this is my favourite report cover of all time. Any others?
The JustHousing project has a website. With
@kevincredit.bsky.social & Fiadh Tubridy, we're working with community orgs & the Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) to strengthen links between housing + climate justice. The 3 year project is funded by @epaireland.bsky.social
mu.ie/justhousing
