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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Post-donation action: Join 350’s WhatsApp Broadcast Channel to.350.org/0JhvX
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... As long as we focus on high level general goals, Carney’s will continue to be popular. However once Canadians come to think of him as a wittier, more respected Stephen Harper and the details of how he’s selling Canada out to corporate and financial bigshots, then…
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Linda McQuaig: Carney is using our loathing of Trump to remake Canada in alarming ways
As long as Donald Trump hovers menacingly over the country, Carney has enormous leeway to remake Canada in ways that would — under normal circumstances — alarm many Canadians.
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Finally Burnham says something clear and concrete about fighting the urgent climate crisis.
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British people understand the climate crisis threat. Today I’m empowering them to tackle it | Andy Burnham
With nearly £30m of funding, I’m giving communities power over local energy. They know the gravity of global heating, and they want to be part of the solution, says UK prime minister Andy Burnham
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
youtube.com/watch?v=J-ii... a super important view on Carney’s plans to privatize Canadian public assets.
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Mark Carney’s investment summit is putting Canada on the auction block
YouTube video by The Breach
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... Really important to read this!
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To save Canada, Mark Carney is courting foreign money. He’s risking an ‘investment invasion’
The care economy is looking tempting to foreign investors but that mustn’t be used as a reason to privatize sectors like health.
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Andy Burnham DESTROYS years of privatisation in first speech in Commons as Prime Minister #politics
YouTube video by PoliticsJOE
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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We won’t save Canada by selling it off to the highest bidder
YouTube video by Avi Lewis
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ottawa and Alberta pledge to build 1,460 affordable houses www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/09/n... The figures provided come to over $400,000 per unit costs. So will they be not-for-profit? Will the be net zero ready housing? We’ll see whether Carney is doing something really significant here.
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Ottawa and Alberta pledge to build 1,460 affordable houses
The federal government and Alberta are pledging to build at least 1,460 affordable housing units across the province.
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Join me in asking the Government of Canada to strengthen – not weaken – Canada's environmental protections and independent project reviews. Speak up today: win.newmode.net/shiftaction/... #cdnpoli #ClimateAction
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New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
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Burnham must learn from Starmer’s mistakes: Labour was elected to transform the economy, not just stabilise it | Jonathan Portes
Devolution, tax, the EU and immigration: these are all opportunities for growth if Burnham abandons the excessive caution of the past few years, says economist Jonathan Portes
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I would refocus this a bit more on the promotion of economic development along the route. If you do that you see the real value in a Kingston stop in eastern Ontario. open.substack.com/pub/bruce728...
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Fast trains are a great way to travel. But the big upside of Alto lies in the economic boon and housing affordability high speed rail could deliver.
Canada has plenty of land, relatively few people, and a housing affordability problem.
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
In 2004, Petrini was named a “European hero” by Time magazine, and in January 2008 he was the only Italian included in the Guardian’s list of 50 people who could save the world. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Carlo Petrini, Slow Food movement founder, dies aged 76
Italy’s president leads tributes to campaigner who spent four decades promoting sustainability and local cuisine
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
This 🧵 from @richardbrooks.bsky.social has it exactly right. This new Canadian sovereign wealth fund seems to be a reverse mirror of what these funds do and how they are capitalized in places like Norway. 👇
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
What if Carney said that a province proposing to expand oil production offset that carbon impact by reducing emissions from their electricity grid by moving their grid to clean renewables? Real climate action requires immediate mandates with teeth www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/27/o...
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Real climate action requires immediate mandates with teeth
This is no way to prosecute the fight of our lives. Instead of making climate action voluntary, a government aligned with the emergency before us would make climate action and the energy transition ma...
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Always worth reading Chris Hatch! A fossil fuel reckoning, within earshot of a coal port www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/27/o...
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A fossil fuel reckoning, within earshot of a coal port
Scientists and academics of all stripes are meeting. An international team of eminent scientists have already given governments a preliminary set of actions, including recommendations like “halting al...
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
This will shake you up! open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
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Big Oil Breaks Everything
The planet, our democracy, our courts...
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A new front in the push to phase out fossil fuels www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/20/o...
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A new front in the push to phase out fossil fuels
Ministers and diplomats from 55 countries are about to convene on the Caribbean coast of Colombia for what’s billed as the 'First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels.' Their meeting in ...
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
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Why Canada isn't immune to oil's wild price ride — and how we can fix that
Renewable energy presents Canada with an opportunity to reduce dependence on global oil markets, writes Jory Cohen, and build a more resilient energy system at home.
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution? @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on the unintended (and often paradoxically hopeful) consequences of Trump's war: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution? | George Monbiot
The US attack on Iran has made the need for renewable energy inarguable, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Compared to the obscene profits of the oil pirates, $8 B is peanuts! toedhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/15/cuba-beat-us-energy-blockade-investment-renewables?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Cuba could beat US energy blockade with $8bn investment in renewables, says thinktank
Report by Common Wealth argues rest of the world should pay for country’s transition as reparative climate finance
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit
The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This is a hopeful perspective!! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A new economic superpower could spark a global retreat from fossil fuels | Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope
Eighty-five countries have sought a roadmap to phasing out fossil fuels. A conference this month offers hope they could unite
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
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Iran Just Dropped The WILDEST Pete Hegseth DISS Track...
YouTube video by Really American
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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This is what a fossil-fuel shock looks like. The UK must adapt its energy system – and quickly | Chaitanya Kumar
The Iran war will hit food prices, fuel costs and interest rates. But we could could turn this crisis to our advantage, says Chaitanya Kumar of the New Economics Foundation
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
We need not only renewabble energy but Public Power. Good article!! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Iran oil crisis has proved Ed Miliband right on green energy. But households still need more help | Mathew Lawrence
Britain’s whole energy economy needs to be reformed – decarbonising the grid is only part of the mix, says director of Common Wealth, Mathew Lawrence
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Adam J. Blust @adamjblust.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Lawrence O’Donnell made a great point. Nixon won his 1972 re-election in a landslide, winning 49 states. In 1974 he resigned. By 1976, you couldn’t find anyone who would admit to supporting him. Looking forward to history repeating itself.
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Pr Carlos Moreno - IAE Paris1 Sorbonne University @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Santiago de Chile: la suspensión del financiamiento por parte del gobierno central de la ciclovía entre Estación Central y Pajaritos rompe la continuidad y la equidad. No es una ciclovía: es una ciudad más justa. Hora de movilizarse Firma la petición. No pasaran www.moreno-web.net/no-es-una-ci...
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No es una ciclovía lo que se interrumpe: es la continuidad de una ciudad más justa - Por Carlos Moreno - Carlos Moreno
Pic Gobierno Regional de Santiago de Chile No es una ciclovía lo que se interrumpe: es la continuidad de una ciudad más justa Por Carlos Moreno Profesor IAE Paris Sorbonne Université Paris1 Panthéon ...
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I’Ve been saying this for a long time, Well said Max. Maybe it’s time for another National Energy Program www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/02/o...
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Maybe it’s time for another National Energy Program
Aaron Gunn is just the latest Conservative politician to argue — unwittingly — for the policies and priorities that were found in Pierre Trudeau's National Energy Program. Maybe it's time to give them...
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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
You don’t make cyclists mix with motor traffic at roundabouts and rely on driver behaviour. You design them so they don’t have to, removing the risk altogether. 📍 ’s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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Tony Blair says the left is in ‘unholy alliance’ with Islamists. It’s a desperate last ploy to quell the anger over Gaza | Owen Jones
The former PM has no valid response when progressives raise a voice over war crimes, so he seeks to mute them. But we’ll take no moral lectures from him, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
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We need to be honest about Iran – and how our rampant greed for oil is causing mayhem | George Monbiot
Oil has empowered capitalism, and some of the world’s most exploitative regimes. Move away from it and we can solve some of the key issues we face, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
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Stopping gas dictating UK energy price could cut bills by £200, thinktank says
Iran war has increased gas price, with effects on UK energy bills that could be avoided, Common Wealth says
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
youtube.com/watch?v=QCnK... This is really powerful interview.
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The Israeli professor that the BBC won’t interview
YouTube video by Declassified UK
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 01/03/2026
The West is marshalling all this effort and tearing any pretence of international law to shreads all to empower an apartheid state that has been openly committing genocide for the past several years. Any notion the West was some kind of moral arbiter of the world is dead and buried.
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 28/02/2026
In a region defined by dramatic terrain and historic roads, bikes are forging new paths into the landscape of Bilbao and Bizkaia. Drawing on domestic ambition and international expertise, the past decade has seen accelerated efforts to weave (e-)cycling infrastructure into the fabric of daily life.🧵
People of all ages and abilities ride bicycles along dedicated and physically separated cycling infrastructure on the streets of Bilbao, Spain.People of all ages and abilities ride bicycles along dedicated and physically separated cycling infrastructure on the streets of Bilbao, Spain.People of all ages and abilities ride bicycles along dedicated and physically separated cycling infrastructure on the streets of Bilbao, Spain.People of all ages and abilities ride bicycles along dedicated and physically separated cycling infrastructure on the streets of Bilbao, Spain.
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Dutch Cycling Embassy @dutchcycling.nl · 28/02/2026
A protected bike lane on 30th Street in San Diego increased cycling to more than 130,000 trips per year within four years. After construction, usage rose by 120% in the first year and continued to grow. Read the full story by Momentum Magazine: buff.ly/JufGsFr
cyclists riding in protected bike lane
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Blue Axeman @blueaxeman.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
STUDY: Despite conventional wisdom that increases in vehicle fuel efficiency results in decreased gasoline consumption, Jevons’ Paradox holds. For every 1 mile per gallon of increased fuel efficiency there’s an associated 1.2 mile increase in vehicle miles travelled. Better cars = higher emissions.
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Vehicle fuel economy and vehicle miles traveled: An empirical investigation of Jevon’s Paradox
There has been, in recent decades, a concerted effort to promote energy efficiency as a means to reduce energy consumption. The general thesis is that…
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Pr Carlos Moreno - IAE Paris1 Sorbonne University @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Je vous partage dans mon nouveau livre en français « La ville du soin. Territoires : le bien-être à portée de main » la suite de mes travaux sur la proximité heureuse, illustrée par des exemples, en France, Europe et dans le monde. Sortie le 5 mars et publié par Editions de l’Observatoire
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... A terrific analysis. Before Mamdami.
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Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton | Sadiq Khan
The threat to the party in some parts of our country is now existential. But we can progress, as we have in London, by being bold and strong in our core beliefs, says London mayor Sadiq Khan
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
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I saw how the Greens channelled voters’ anger – and fused it with hope. That’s why they won in Gorton and Denton | Owen Jones
Starmer called the byelection a battle for the nation’s soul. This result shows Labour has lost that – and I think it will lose much more, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Very important indicator of how the political winds are shifting in the UK. And maybe globally?
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I saw how the Greens channelled voters’ anger – and fused it with hope. That’s why they won in Gorton and Denton | Owen Jones
Starmer called the byelection a battle for the nation’s soul. This result shows Labour has lost that – and I think it will lose much more, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I’ve just donated to the UN for crisis relief in Cuba. Tax creditable! news.un.org/en/story/202...
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Hurricane Melissa: UN launches $74 million response for 2.2 million in Cuba
Around 2.2 million Cubans remain in dire need of assistance across the eastern provinces of Granma, Santiago de Cuba, Holguin, and Guantanamo as the after effects of Hurricane Mellisa continue, UN aid...
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
From belly of the Beast. belly-of-the-beast.kit.com/posts/you-ca...
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“You cannot blockade the sun”: how to help Cuba’s green transition
Oil shortages push Cuba toward renewables. Global aid, political tensions, and Liz Oliva Fernández’s latest media appearances.
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I’m making a donation to the CNC even though it is not a registered Canadian charity. canadiannetworkoncuba.ca/about-the-cn....
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About the CNC – Canadian network on cuba
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Action required: please sign the petition from the Canadian Network on Cuba. www.letcubalive.info/donate
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Donate — Let Cuba Live
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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Coalition to send aid from Canada to Cuba as concern over loved ones mounts | CBC News
A coalition that works to strengthen ties between Canada and Cuba is preparing to send a shipping container of aid to Cuba in early March as the country faces a U.S. blockade that is causing an energy...
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I’ll continue to look for Canadian channels to send aid to Cuba. www.letcubalive.info/donate
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Donate — Let Cuba Live
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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Cuba solar installations: Impressive 2024 surge amid crisis - PVknowhow
Across Cuba, a familiar struggle has intensified. As the sun sets, uncertainty rises over whether the lights will stay on. Persistent and severe blackouts
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farmerdave.bsky.social @farmerdave.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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Cuba solar energy: Remarkable 2GW plan counters US blockade - PVknowhow
In a strategic move toward energy self-sufficiency, Cuba is significantly expanding its solar energy infrastructure. This push for renewable power comes as a
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