‘You can’t eat electricity’: how rural solar farms became the latest battlefront in Britain’s culture war Reform UK is exploiting opposition to solar panels – but most farmers are more worried about climate change.

92%: the percentage of funding for Nigel Farage's far-right political party Reform UK that comes from fossil fuel interests.

Across the world, anyone blaming immigrants, etc, it's all just a smokescreen to allow the rich to keep on getting richer by killing our planet.
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Some fun days out in Yorkshire classifying soils with the Fera team. Each pit a little treasure hunt to work out the series! 🪱

The Flawed Ideology That Unites Grass-Fed Beef Fans and Anti-Vaxxers From RFK Jr. to Hollywood A-listers and Democratic senators, people across the political spectrum are jumping onto the slippery slope of nature-based solutionism.

The Flawed Ideology That Unites Grass-Fed Beef Fans and Anti-Vaxxers newrepublic.com/article/1933... via @newrepublic.com

‘They dictate the rules’: BBC tells PM’s Evan Davis to stop hosting heat pump podcast Presenter believes decision was taken due to the technology’s link with net zero after he was told he risked accusations of political bias

"As an impartial broadcaster, the BBC should not be pandering to attempts from the right to turn the world’s most efficient home heating system into a culture war issue. What’s next cancelling Gardeners’ World because of Monty Don’s support for peat-free compost?”
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AgroBox: an Agroecosystem Dynamics Sandbox - The Organic Research Centre ORC Researcher Dr Colin Tosh recently developed a new framework for modelling the dynamics of agroecosystems, and here you are given full interactive access to these models.

ICYMI Organic Research Centre have produced new free online tool. It allows growers or policy makers or researchers to model agroecosystem and look at impacts of pesticide use and how might be reduced while minimising impacts on crop yield. Link www.organicresearchcentre.com/resources/to...

Excited to have caught some parasitoid wasps (Proctotrupidae) in the midst of their emergence from a wireworm/clickbeetle larva (Elateridae) while sorting through samples today 🪲 Collected at Gibbets Close where Wychwood Forest Trust is supporting passive #rewilding of ex-agricultural land #bugsky

Japanese shipowner NYK has reached a deal with Eneos to buy conventional bunker fuel with attached carbon credits, or offsets. This will reduce NYK's net emissions in years to come. Under the agreement, Eneos will purchase carbon credits from 1PointFive, an initiative of Occidental Petroleum and BlackRock. Each credit represents an equivalent amount of carbon that 1PointFive removes from the atmosphere using direct air capture (DAC) technology and stores underground. Eneos will then sell the bunker fuel and the attached carbon credits to NYK. 1PointFive is building its first direct air capture plant in Ector County, Texas. It is designed to recover up to 500,000 tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere every year, and the company says that future plant designs will be able to capture twice as much. The captured gas will be pumped into stable, secure underground geologic formations for long-term storage. Prominent clients include Airbus, Shopify and airline ANA, and the startup expects lots of demand in the decades to come. The company's first DAC plant will begin operating in 2025, and the Eneos fuel delivery contract begins in 2028. The carbon credits from Eneos are part of NYK's plan to address the last hard-to-abate elements of its carbon footprint. It will focus first on maximum energy efficiency, then on transitioning to new green fuels like ammonia and methanol (and LNG). For the remaining emissions that cannot be eliminated, NYK will buy carbon offsets to achieve net-zero. It is the two companies' second major agreement this year. In July, NYK absorbed about 80 percent of Eneos' in-house shipping fleet, including 18 LPG carriers, 19 chemical and product tankers, 12 dry bulk carriers and a ship management company in Singapore. Eneos retained its crude oil tankers.

Whatever direct air capture is meant to be, or could be, this is unambiguously what it is becoming: a fossil fuel industry run factory creating single units of greenwashing to sell to the worst emitters

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RE the comparison to climate protesters - this is *worse* than hypocrisy.

Police, media and conservative commentators *fabricate* instances of blocked ambulances, for climate protest.

Whereas for farmers, actual instances of emergency services hindered get ignored

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‘You have to find your own recipe’: Dutch suburb where residents must grow food on at least half of their property In the suburb of Oosterwold, a living experiment in urban agriculture, the 5,000 inhabitants find different creative ways to fulfil the unique stipulation

What an exciting experiment www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Does organic food have a perceived class problem? Organic is a knotty subject – where cost, status, and sustainability are tied up together. Matt Chittock unpicks the arguments.

Should all the food we eat be organic? Yes! Can it happen in the UK? Maybe... This article nicely explains some of the barriers wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/doe...

Want to learn more about the wonderful world of soil biodiversity? Well then here's the starter pack for you!

If I've accidentally missed anyone off the list then please let me know in the comments.

Also check out @msteinwandter.bsky.social who has been working on one too!

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Sowing (lovely sunny fieldwork) in summer now followed inevitably by reaping (long days of lab work) all winter ahead