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Hard to overstate quite how worrying the latest government food security report is. A predictable and predicted slow-motion disaster being allowed to play itself out. businessgreen.com/news-analy…
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Starmer's 81% carbon target for 2035 has some people invoking various terrors about what that means.
Here's what his independent advisers suggest he prioritise. 2 key ones are making electricity cheaper & making landlords stop renting out draughty homes
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Interested in a greener home? Find homes near you to visit during #Wiltshire and #Swindon #GreenOpenHomes week 9th-17th November at wwb.greenopenhomes.net or find out more and share your own experience at wiltshireclimatealliance.org…
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Solar panels and farms go together superbly.
Politicians shouldn’t be telling farmers and landowners what they can do with their own land. Farmers know best.
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Will solar PV soon be the cheapest source of electricity in most places around the world?
This @NatureComms paper says yes.
Most surprisingly this is AFTER including short- and long-term storage costs for renewable energy sources.
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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The impact this would actually have on food security is so minuscule as to be laughable. Anyone actually serious about improving food security would be looking at encouraging people to eat a bit less meat, investing in more climate resilient agriculture, and banning golf courses.
We must ban solar farms on prime agricultural land.
Solar panels are for roofs, not for farmland.
Our countryside and food security is precious.
telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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History in the making! Jamie Adam, project manager at Kirk Hill Wind Farm, buries a time capsule under the T7 turbine. Inside are notes and drawings from the pupils of Bishop Cornish Primary School, the first school in the UK powered by its own wind farm, thanks to becoming a member of the Kirk Hill cooperative. The kids' visions of the future and the impact of this project have been captured for generations to come and we couldn't be happier to bury them under the turbine they cleverly named "Gayle."
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I'm driving on sunshine! ☀️🚗 But what's best, biodiesel or electricity?
Fuel from 1 hectare of oilseed crop = <18,000 miles of driving.
BUT
Electricity from 1 ha of solar PV = 2,000,000 miles in an electric car!
☀️⚡🚗 !!! 🤯
The solar/EV electric combo is incredible!
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Loving the guy on the left. Astutely wearing a balaclava to make totally sure that no-one could possibly find any way of identifying him
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I just signed a petition: No prison for protest. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
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Absolutely damning post mortem on recent Conservative governments' climate efforts from @theCCCuk. Two years wasted that have undermined UK energy security, competitiveness, and climate action. And all for zero political gain. businessgreen.com/news/43368…
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This sentence is obscene. Why are we punishing the people trying to prevent disaster while allowing the oil company giants causing it to reap super profits?
@ChrisGPackham
🚨 BREAKING: THE WHOLE TRUTH FIVE IMPRISONED FOR 4-5 YEARS
⛓️ Lucia, Cressie, Louise and Daniel have received 4 year prison sentences today, whilst Roger has received 5 years.
➡️ Stop jailing those telling the truth. Sign the petition — actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
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Today 5 people who care about our planet have been viciously sentenced under laws that remove our right to peaceful protest.
So I came to join those who stand in solidarity. We cannot put people behind bars for urging us to do what we know is right. #WholeTruth5
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18 out of 23 Conservative net zero sceptics lost their seats
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A thought this morning for the inspirational @CarolineLucas who spent over a decade working hard to establish the Greens as a viable Parliamentary Party. She now steps down by handing over to four Green MPs who not only won, but won comfortably.
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#Election & environment thoughts:
- Lab & LDs ran on very pro-climate manifestos and won big
- Tories framed net zero as a cost and a negative. Lost massively
- Greens won record 4 seats. 1 Green MP was influential. 4 is a lot
- But 4 Reform MPs, openly anti net zero & renewables
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A brilliant night for the @TheGreenParty who I’m so proud to support. Massive congratulations to @sianberry @carla_denyer @EllieChowns and @AdrianRamsay And a huge 💚 heartfelt thanks to @CarolineLucas for flying the green flag and being the best British MP for the last decade
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Joining #BBCLauraK
PM Rishi Sunak
Labour campaign coordinator Pat McFadden
Lib Dem's Daisy Cooper
SNP's Stephen Flynn
Conservatives' Brandon Lewis
Labour's Harriet Harman
Chef and Green activist Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Sunday 9am @BBCOne
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c51y…
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Everyone wants to talk about immigration in this Election..but no one wants to talk (seriously) about climate change. Put the two together,and the most disturbing reality emerges: of one billion forcibly displaced people by 2050. Please don’t turn away jonathonporritt.com/migratio…
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Important read by my colleague @horton_official on the climate denialism links at high levels of UK politics. Who are the wealthy climate sceptics funding rightwing UK politics? theguardian.com/politics/art…