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Breffní Lennon

@breffnilennon.bsky.social
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Research Fellow at @ucc.bluesky.social. An environmental social scientist with a background in geography, I am interested in the social, environmental, and economic challenges of the energy transition. research.ucc.ie/profiles/blennon@uc…

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Iain Soutar @isoutar.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
If you're interested in spatial dimensions of energy issues but are not yet following @energygeography.bsky.social, this is your reminder to do so!
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Breffní Lennon @breffnilennon.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
In two recent research papers, we examine how collaborative learning helps identif the key barriers & drivers to citizen energy community formation, using living lab and COM-B model approaches doi.org/10.1088/2753... doi.org/10.1088/2753...
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Breffní Lennon @breffnilennon.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
"As geopolitical tensions rise and climate-related risks intensify, Europe is rethinking how it handles security on multiple fronts. One idea being developed relates to how nature and restoring landscapes can play a role in strengthening national resilience" theconversation.com/the-bogs-of-...
theconversation.com
The bogs of war: landscapes play a huge part in conflict – and restoring them can strengthen security
Europe is rethinking security: as geopolitical tensions rise, Russia looms and climate risks intensify, can restoring nature help defend both nations and the planet?
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Ella McSweeney @ellamcsweeney.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Treat Lough Derg like a bin, and it will show you what that looks like. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
irishtimes.com
Ella McSweeney: Lough Derg is drifting towards the same fate as Lough Neagh
Lough Derg has been so reshaped by pollution that its original character is almost impossible to discern
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Breffní Lennon @breffnilennon.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
In 2022, Ireland held a national Children and Young People's Assembly on Biodiversity Loss with 35 randomly selected members aged 7–17 from the island of Ireland. Their report can be accessed here: cyp-biodiversity.ie/wp-content/u...
cyp-biodiversity.ie
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Breffní Lennon @breffnilennon.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Children from Ireland's Children and Young People's Assembly on Biodiversity Loss are speaking today at the UN Forum on Human Rights Democracy and the Rule of Law @unitednationsbk.bsky.social @unsrclimaterights.bsky.social @tconnellyrte.bsky.social Watch live at listen-live.unog.ch/en/meetings/...
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Listen Live | Live Meeting audio stream at The United Nations Office Geneva | UN GENEVA
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Stockholm Environment Institute @sei.org · 21/07/2025
🇬🇧🔋Who decides how local energy projects are run and how can communities get more involved? Join our online Q&A with @breffnilennon.bsky.social to explore inclusive, people-centred participation. 👉 Learn about our #CommunityEnergy project and sign-up today: buff.ly/i77wI10
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Breffní Lennon @breffnilennon.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
In our new paper, we examine how collaborative learning can help practitioners identify & better understand the key barriers and drivers to citizen energy community formation that underscore people's attitudes towards, and participation in, a 'community'. t.co/ppcFqrIkri
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Breffní Lennon @breffnilennon.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
"The idea of free speech as a universally accessible right satisfies the democratic ideal of equality while ignoring the material realities that make such equality unattainable"
thenation.com
How the Rich and Powerful Destroyed Free Speech
And how we get it back.
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Breffní Lennon @breffnilennon.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Interesting article outlining the (Japanese) conservative argument against nuclear power www.nippon.com/en/in-depth/...
nippon.com
The Conservative Argument Against Nuclear Power in Japan
Opposition to nuclear power in earthquake-prone Japan is often seen as the province of political progressives. But a former judge argues that conservative thinking should lead to the same conclusion: ...
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 07/04/2025
Major brands are quietly fueling fossil fuel expansion through plastics. Explore how brands like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Nestlé are driving the climate and plastics crises.
euronews.com
New investigation links Texas fracking to European plastics
More than 25 major consumer brands and petrochemicals have been traced to fracking in the Permian Basin, one of the world’s ‘carbon bombs’.
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Breffní Lennon @breffnilennon.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Pacific Northwest's ‘forest gardens’ were deliberately planted by Indigenous people Finding suggests humans have added value to forests in lasting ways #Indigenousknowledges
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Pacific Northwest's ‘forest gardens’ were deliberately planted by Indigenous people
Finding suggests humans have added value to forests in lasting ways
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Breffní Lennon @breffnilennon.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Trump is forging ahead with a new era of imperialism not seen since McKinley
irishtimes.com
Trump is forging ahead with a new era of imperialism not seen since McKinley
Worldview: The history of the so-called Gilded Age in America reveals massacres, ethnic cleansing and inhumanity on an unthinkable scale
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Breffní Lennon @breffnilennon.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
"Those of us who are willing to see what is under our noses know very well that what is happening in Gaza is an ongoing project of ethnic cleansing"
irishtimes.com
Mark O’Connell: The little boy lost his entire family. He just sits staring at the wall
Those of us who are willing to see what is under our noses know very well that what is happening now in Gaza is an ongoing project of ethnic cleansing
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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Animals, like caribou, that were common even a few decades ago are becoming rare. Next to the insect apocalypse, maybe the next most alarming biodiversity trend is the precipitous decline of once common, numerous species. 😟 www.climate.gov/news-feature...
climate.gov
2024 Arctic Report Card: Migratory Arctic caribou populations have fallen by 65%
Further warming will pose increasing challenges for caribou and the people who depend on them.
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RTÉ Brainstorm @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The story of the first all-Ireland mapping survey 200 years ago. New #RTEBrainstorm podcast based on piece by @catsporter.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social & @profkdlilley.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social & voiced by Erik Threlfall www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
rte.ie
The story of the first all-Ireland mapping survey 200 years ago
Disputes were common and informants often disagreed when the townlands we're familiar with today were created
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Breffní Lennon @breffnilennon.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
"Pacific Northwest's ‘forest gardens’ were deliberately planted by Indigenous people" we have the knowledge, we just need the will to reverse #BiodiversityCollapse and the #ClimateCrisis
science.org
Pacific Northwest's ‘forest gardens’ were deliberately planted by Indigenous people
Finding suggests humans have added value to forests in lasting ways
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Breffní Lennon @breffnilennon.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Scientists in the UK say a recent methane-related conspiracy theory was “a wake-up call” for the industry, reminding them they need to communicate better and more directly with the public.
theguardian.com
Conspiracy theory on methane-cutting cow feed a ‘wake-up call’, say scientists
Social media storm of misinformation about Bovaer has drawn in Reform UK, the dairy industry and even Bill Gates
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 10/02/2025
Irish environment groups condemn EU cash row as defunding attempt by right-wing MEPs
irishtimes.com
Irish environment groups condemn EU cash row as defunding attempt by right-wing MEPs
Acrimonious dispute unfolding over whether European Commission should fund organisations that lobby European Union institutions
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Breffní Lennon @breffnilennon.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Plans for a greenway linking Kinsale and Cork city could see the abandoned Goggin's Hill tunnel come back into use
echolive.ie
The story behind Cork’s abandoned railway tunnel
Plans for a greenway linking Kinsale and Cork city could see the abandoned Goggin's Hill tunnel come back into use. Local historian John O'Sullivan ...
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Breffní Lennon @breffnilennon.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Interesting article on the potential positive impacts of solar farms in desert environments, particularly in relation to microclimate by Wu et al. 2024
doi.org
Assessment of the ecological and environmental effects of large-scale photovoltaic development in desert areas - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Assessment of the ecological and environmental effects of large-scale photovoltaic development in desert areas
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
When Russians attack Ukrainian solar farms, they're back up inside of 7 days. Same level of damage at a fossil fuel plant: 4 months to repair apnews.com/article/ukra...
apnews.com
Ukraine has seen success in building clean energy, which is harder for Russia to destroy
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Maxim Timchenko, who runs the largest private energy company in Ukraine, pulls out a piece of paper with bar charts showing how much new electricity his company has brought onl...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/01/2025
President Biden is expected to permanently ban new oil and gas drilling in large sections of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, as well as other federal waters. The move relies on a 70-year-old law that could make it difficult for the Trump administration to reverse it.
nytimes.com
Biden Expected to Permanently Ban Oil Drilling in Some Federal Waters
The move, expected as early as Monday, relies on a 70-year-old law that could make it difficult for the Trump administration to reverse it.
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Breffní Lennon @breffnilennon.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Watching Na Lumière Gaelacha on @tg4.bsky.social about the Horgan Brothers of Youghal. Absolutely gorgeous television
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
New York State is the twelfth-largest economy on earth, and now it's going to demand that Big Oil pay for the climate damages it has caused. This is how the tobacco industry met its match billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-successf...
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A (successful) test of the state-by-state approach!
A day-after-Christmas present for the planet from Albany, New York
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Breffní Lennon @breffnilennon.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Looking for some new reading for the new year? While hardcopies of our new book on energy citizenship will be available Jan 2025, the ebook version has already landed! You can download it for free at: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
doi.org
Energy Citizenship
This open access book develops a deeper understanding of what is an increasingly applied term across policy cycles and academic discourses
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Iain Soutar @isoutar.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Open letter calling on the European Commission to reintroduce dedicated social science and humanities research in their energy and decarbonization-related calls, and strengthen the role of these disciplines in future research programmes... ecpr.eu/news/news/de...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/12/2024
What is the real toll of natural and climate disasters? Science has staggering new answers | Devi Sridhar
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What is the real toll of natural and climate disasters? Science has staggering new answers | Devi Sridhar
New research challenges us to look beyond the event to the devastating long-term impacts. Governments must take note The devastation of hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis or tornadoes is often conveyed by how many people have been injured or killed. And…
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Breffní Lennon @breffnilennon.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Our recent article – Sustaining energetic communities: energy citizenship and participation in an age of upheaval and transition – explores current opportunities and barriers around energy community formation in the EU www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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