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E J Hartley 💚

@idoneathunk.bsky.social
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here to help you find people doing good things 💚 post-capitalist solutions: co-ops, community, renewables, permaculture, prefigurative politics there's a bright future ahead if we choose to build it 💚 communitychangemenu.wordpress.com 🇵🇸

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Younity @younityuk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
⚡🏘️ A big moment for community energy. Great British Energy has launched £30m of funding for community energy and local authority projects, the first wave of its wider £1bn Local Power Plan. More communities will be able to own and benefit from clean energy. 🌱
gov.uk
‘People’s Power’ projects to give more control over local energy
Communities across the country will be able to build and control their own clean energy supply.
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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🔋 New Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action Talk 🔋 ☀️ Come along to hear our local plans for community energy in Bracknell Forest next Friday, 25th Sept ☀️ at Bracknell Town Library, from 6 to 8 PM. All Welcome; light refreshments will be available. Free to attend; no booking required.
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Younity @younityuk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🤝🏫 School & community energy collaboration One primary school is crowdfunding for solar panels, which could save £175,000+ over 25 years. Schools partnering with community energy groups is a tried and tested model, helping schools cut energy bills while creating wider community benefits. 🌱⚡
bracknellnews.co.uk
Village school launches £15,000 campaign for solar panels to cut energy costs
A primary school is hoping to raise £15,000 to install solar panels and cut energy costs.
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Centre for Sustainable Energy @cse.org.uk · 09/09/2026
The Local Power Plan has set a target of 8 GW of #CommunityEnergy by 2030. That's only achievable if the right support reaches the right communities at the right time. Built with Community Energy England and Ashden Climate Solutions, that's what Community Energy GO is designed to do. Explore more👇
communityenergygo.org.uk
Home - Community Energy GO
Welcome to Community Energy GO — Turn your renewable energy idea into reality. We connect community groups across England with expert advice, practical tools and hands-on support to make your project happen.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Community Shares Unit @comshares.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Free online training: Community Shares Finance Guide - managing community share capital. Next Thursday online, book now! www.uk.coop/events-and-t...
uk.coop
Training: Community Shares Finance Guide - managing community share capital
A session for societies using community shares capital to understand their legal responsibilities, and how to manage their members financial investments.
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Younity @younityuk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
💰⚡ Funding is available for Scotland’s next generation of community energy projects. The Community Energy Growth Fund is offering Scottish non-profit organisations up to £20,000 for feasibility work and up to £200,000 per year for project development 🏗️ 📅 Applications close 14 September 2026.
localenergy.scot
Community Energy Generation Growth Fund · Local Energy Scotland
The Community Energy Generation Growth Fund aims to support community groups across Scotland to set up renewable energy generation projects.
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Younity @younityuk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🌱⚡ A new community energy programme is launching in East Suffolk. The programme will support local communities to develop and deliver community-owned renewable energy projects, helping people take greater control of their energy future while creating local benefits 🙌
eastsuffolk.gov.uk
New Community Energy Programme launched | East Suffolk Council
East Suffolk Council is delighted to announce the launch of a new community energy programme.
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Subvert @subvert.fm · 01/09/2026
How To Leave Spotify A free online workshop with MAD Records Collective Sept 10. RSVP Here: luma.com/howtoleavesp...
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How To Leave Spotify · Zoom · Luma
FREE ONLINE EVENT: open to everyone For decades artists have been told that Spotify is necessary to build a successful artist career... but what if there was…
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Centre for Sustainable Energy @cse.org.uk · 01/09/2026
We've just published our Organisational Carbon Audit Tool – a spreadsheet-format resource that helps small organisations or #CommunityEnergy groups calculate their carbon emissions. Explore it here 👇
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Organisational Carbon Audit Tool - Centre for Sustainable Energy
A spreadsheet-format resource that helps small organisations or community groups calculate their carbon emissions
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Forest Community Energy CBS Ltd @fce-cbs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Plug-in-Solar arrives, we look forward to our autumn events, and we search for our missing banner! All this, and more, in our August Newsletter: www.forestcommunityenergy.org.uk/email/4907c4... Photo by Yuma Solar on Unsplash
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The Big Solar Co-op @bigsolarcoop.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
**LAST CALL** The next Community Solar Foundation (CSF) Course starts soon and we have just a few seats left. Bursaries have now all been awarded but the £150 subsidised fee for individuals, groups and organisations with annual turnover under £100k, is still available >>> bigsolar.coop/csf-course
bigsolar.coop
CSF Course
The Community Solar Foundation Course is designed for individuals and organisation who want to move beyond learning about community energy and start delivering real solar projects.
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Harvest Manitoba @harvestmanitoba.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Welcome to Fort Garry Collective, the newest member of Harvest Manitoba’s 400+ Community Food Network! On their first food bank day, they served 10 clients in the Fort Garry community. We’re so grateful to have them helping more neighbours access food closer to home. 🤝
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Vermont State University @vermontstateu.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This weekend, students from Vermont State Williston partnered with the Williston Community Food Shelf to gather donations for both the VTSU food pantry and the local food shelf. Students donated a trailer full of food and toiletries. We're so proud of these Williston Woolies!
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Local News Matters @localnewsmatters.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Plans for a community microgrid in Pescadero to help combat power outages have moved forward after the project secured the final phase of funding this month. localnewsmatters.org/2026/08/29/e...
localnewsmatters.org
Empowering Pescadero: Microgrid in works to keep lights on when the grid goes down - Local News Matters
Plans for a community microgrid in Pescadero to help combat power outages have moved forward after the project secured the final phase of funding this
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Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP @smwlaw.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Huge thanks to our volunteers and Alemany Farm for a successful Volunteer Day! 🌱 The 3.5-acre organic farm provides fresh produce for free to local neighbors, volunteers, and community food security organizations.
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REScoop.eu @rescoop.eu · 31/08/2026
🔋Do you need an uplifting story now that you're back to the office? 🚀 We have just released a success story about the newly established Community Energy Coalition in Romania, aiming to eliminate energy poverty! 🪄 Learn more about their inspiring story: www.rescoop.eu/news-and-eve...
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 14/08/2026
New York State continues to fund a whole bunch of cool, community-owned and operated broadband expansion projects bringing affordable access to people most in need somebody might want to inform the "abundance" people
nycmesh.net
NYC Mesh Awarded $898,035 ConnectALL Grant to Expand Community-Owned Internet Across New York City
Volunteer-Built Mesh Internet Network Will Hire Its First Full-Time Staff Member and Bring Low-Cost Internet to Over 500 Households in Underserved Communities
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E J Hartley 💚 @idoneathunk.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I still think this might be the best thing I've ever made tbh
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E J Hartley 💚 @idoneathunk.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
While we walk over fields of scorched grass, listening to fascists explain why AI is more important than your access to water, please remember: All the solutions we need for climate change, government corruption & capitalist greed ALREADY EXIST. All they need is more people supporting them 💚
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South East London Community Energy (Selce) @seloncommenergy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Selce Needs You! 💡💙 ⏩ Help us find more investors for our current and 7th share offer. Share our leaflet with friends, relatives, co-workers - anyone who might want to help Charlton Park Academy save £150k and 313.4 tonnes in CO2e emissions over 20 years. Download here: buff.ly/4zRHjDa
Invest in a cleaner, fairer future for SE London (pic of billboard with this slogan)
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E J Hartley 💚 @idoneathunk.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Subjects that are often mocked as "not a real degree" (media studies, psychology, art, literature, social sciences) cover the tools used by the most powerful people to influence the world.
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gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"The larger ambition is to become a “Mondragón of Music: a constellation of community-owned ventures that form the foundation of an alternative economy owned by artists and workers" www.thenews.coop/subvert-co-o...
thenews.coop
Subvert co-operative: A future ‘Mondragón of music’?
A co-operatively owned music platform has launched this year – with over 20,000 members and a vision to become a ‘Mondragon of music’
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The first of our ‘Championing The Local’ free events takes place on 7 Sept. Building Vibrant Local Economies will help community groups realise their ambitions by explaining the range of business models available, showcasing IDBMs in food, renewable energy and retrofit. 🔗 seda.scot/championing-...
Championing the Local, part 1   

Building vibrant local economies
Monday, 7th September, 4-6pm
Online – free admission     

Building vibrant local economies is the first in the CHAMPIONING THE LOCAL series of SEDA Land Conversations.

This Conversation is aimed at helping community groups realise their ambitions 

We will explore alternative business models, including co-operatives, social enterprises and employee-owned businesses, and how they can make LVC’s possible, as well as the best scale at which such issues can be addressed – local, regional or national. 

At present, Scotland has plenty of micro examples of Inclusive and Democratic Business Models (IDBMs). We will look at ways of scaling these up, and rolling them out across the country, in areas such as food, renewable energy and retrofit.

One aim is to highlight the interconnectedness of all these issues, and how thinking about them together brings wider benefits, with different sectors learning from each other. 

This Conversation will include inspirational models, using these as a springboard for a broader discussion of the subject, addressing obstacles along the way and how to overcome them.
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E J Hartley 💚 @idoneathunk.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The rich understand how to use resources sustainably, but they only ever apply the concept to their own money.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/08/2026
WATCH: ProPublica & @drilledmedia.bsky.social found that oil and gas companies have been funding climate research at prestigious US universities for 30+ years. This research fostered a misperception that climate change could be solved without dramatically curtailing fossil fuels: propub.li/3TTgAGp
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Michael Shanks MP @michaelshanksmp.co.uk · 18/07/2026
A new chapter for community energy 📚☀️ Projects like Community Energy Newham’s at Stratford Library, powered by community owned solar panels are reducing energy bills, giving local people more control over their energy future and ensuring the benefits stay in the community.
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South East London Community Energy (Selce) @seloncommenergy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
3 reasons to invest in our Share Offer for Charlton Park: 1. Be a Part of the Response to climate change 2. Be a Part of a Project supporting Local People, Schools & Community 3. Support innovation in a Tough area for Decarbonisation - Once Done Well, then at Scale
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3 Reasons to Invest in our Share Offer for Charlton Park - SELCE
We’re a co-op helping communities in South East London to bring solar energy to their homes, their schools, and their community centres. We also give out free advice on energy bills, to households in…
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E J Hartley 💚 @idoneathunk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Can't wait for Americans on TikTok to find out about Farage vs. Count Binface
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Lichfield Live @lichfieldlive.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Last chance to join leisure centre community solar energy share scheme TIME is running out for people to sign up to a community share scheme helping to create green energy.... lichfieldlive.co.uk/2026/07/03/last…
lichfieldlive.co.uk
Last chance to join leisure centre community solar energy share scheme
TIME is running out for people to sign up to a community share scheme helping to create green energy. Staffordshire Community Energy has already secured more than £105,000 of its £155,000 target for the offer linked to the new Lichfield Leisure Centre. The scheme will see the community take ownership of the solar panels on the roof of the Stychbrook Park facility.
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Loco Home Retrofit CIC @locohome.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
For community energy to thrive it needs a whole sector of skilled workers making our homes and communities greener. Join Co-ops UK for a free webinar to meet some of the incredible co-ops whose workers are driving this vital energy transition, Tues 7 July, 1-2pm sign up: www.uk.coop/events-and-t...
Poster depicting smiling people standing behind large solar panels. Event description reads in bold: GENERATING GREE JOBS free webinar: Tuesday 7th July 1pm-2-pm co-operatives uk
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 01/07/2026
Women disproportionately make up the safety net that fills in where the government doesn’t. For many of them, federal policy changes are making their jobs more challenging than ever.
19thnews.org
Women help feed their communities. Federal cuts are making that harder.
Changes to safety net programs are putting extra strain on a woman-led workforce that is stretched thin and often underpaid.
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Co-operatives UK @cooperativesuk.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
🫶This afternoon’s big #CoopFortnight shout out goes to @plunkettuk.bsky.social 👏 which supports people in rural areas to set up and run community‑owned businesses. 🌾 🧵👇️ (1/5)
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Co-operatives UK @cooperativesuk.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🙌 Community energy co-operatives have the power to change the world 🌍️ Our series of FREE webinars will help introduce and explore opportunities offered to #coops through community energy – including the government's #LocalPowerPlan 👇 #CoopFortnight #coops #greenenergy #renewables
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Younity @younityuk.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
🎉 Community Power Club is here! Our new LES offering helps community energy projects earn more from their generation while helping households and businesses save on their electricity bills. ⚡ Projects earn extra revenue ⚡ Members receive bill discounts ⚡ Community orgs decide who benefits
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Community Energy England @communityenergyengland.org · 23/06/2026
We've hit £20k! 🥳 #HappyDance 💃 🕺 Our £25k target is now really beginning to feel in reach 🙏 ⏰️ Right now EVERY DONATION IS DOUBLED (up to £250) - but our match funding ends in 2 days, so donate now to help us hit our target! 💸 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/up-the-ene... #UpTheEnergy #CommunityEnergy
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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 23/06/2026
⏰ Can we raise another £4997 in the next 2 days?!? (That's "just" £2498.5 given all donations up to £250 are currently doubled). I think we can! 💪 Let's #UpTheEnergy on #CommunityEnergy!
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Co-operatives UK @cooperativesuk.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
🌊 Co‑operation making a big splash! Creating places where people connect 🤝 and belong is a way of changing the world – by starting close to home. 🏘️ That’s what our member Bramley Baths does for its community. So here’s a big #CoopFortnight shout out to them!🧵👇️ (1/6)
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Co-operatives UK @cooperativesuk.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Co-operate and we can change the world. #CoopFortnight is here, and This Beautiful Idea by Tony Walsh captures what #coops make possible: member-owned businesses making a difference in communities across the UK – and around the world. Watch, repost and help spread the word. #ThisBeautifulIdea
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Younity @younityuk.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
⚡ Great to be at the Community Energy England Summer Conference last week. Alongside some fantastic discussions about the future of community energy, we introduced Community Power Club, our new licence-exempt supply offering 🚀 Interested in learning more? Watch this space for extra details 👀
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E J Hartley 💚 @idoneathunk.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Reminder: make sure your pension is invested in things that will ensure there is a world left to live in when you reach retirement.
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E J Hartley 💚 @idoneathunk.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Community energy has a massive part to play in building a brighter future, no matter where you sit politically. Local energy, staying local, run by locals. We can all get behind that. Talk to someone about #communityenergy today 💚 @communityenergyengland.org @uptheenergyuk.bsky.social
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Most people have never heard of community energy. Let's Up the Energy.
YouTube video by Community Energy England
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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 11/06/2026
🚨 Please help to #UpTheEnegy on #CommunityEnergy by contributing whatever you can to this @communityenergyengland.org @uptheenergyuk.bsky.social crowdfunding campaign: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/up-the-ene...
crowdfunder.co.uk
Up the Energy: Local action on renewable energy
To showcase community energy nationwide, inspiring communities to act, cut carbon, save on bills, and benefit locally
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Plunkett UK @plunkettuk.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
📣Today, we are delighted to launch our 2026 Impact Report! As communities continue to navigate a challenging economic landscape, their resilience has never been more evident. 📈 Find out more > plunkett.co.uk/impact-report-26 #ImpactReport2026 #CommunityOwnedResilience
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Forest Community Energy CBS Ltd @fce-cbs.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
A free in-person event for councillors sharing practical ideas for managing community assets in a time of change. We also will give an overview of funding options, including the #communityenergy model, and opportunities via GB Energy and the Local Power Plan. Sign up is here: lnkd.in/eGYxDD_u
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Agroecology Map @agroecologymap.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Urban Hijau is a living permaculture oasis in the city 🌿 Growing food sovereignty and sustainability from the soil up, weaving community and ecology into every seed. Join the green revolution! 🌱 agroecologymap.org/l/458 #UrbanHijau #Permaculture #Agroecology #Sustainability
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E J Hartley 💚 @idoneathunk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
This is a great example of what community support for refugees and asylum seekers can look like! Napier Friends do amazing work - please consider donating if you're able to 💚
spacehive.com
Cooking and Community
Building a supportive community for refugees and the wider community in Ashford. Connection, integration and increased wellbeing through cooking, crafting, learning English, and social activities.
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Agroecology Map @agroecologymap.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Jardin d'Avenir: where agroecology, permaculture, and sustainability bloom 🌱. Food sovereignty rooted in community, soil, and seasons. agroecologymap.org/l/506 #Agroecology #Permaculture #Sustainability
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Younity @younityuk.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
💷⚡ Good news for the community energy sector! £30 million is available through the latest round of the Ofgem Energy Redress Scheme. Community energy orgs can apply for funding to support vulnerable households, tackle high bills, develop energy solutions and help reduce carbon emissions. 🌍🏡
energysavingtrust.org.uk
£30m in Ofgem Energy Redress funding now available for charities and community energy groups
The Ofgem Energy Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme (Energy Redress Scheme) has opened the first funding round in phase three of the scheme.
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Younity @younityuk.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
☀️🏡 A new community-owned solar array has been approved in Northumberland. Developed by Acomb Community Energy, the project is expected to generate around 829,000 kWh of clean electricity each year! Enough to power roughly 300 homes while helping cut fossil fuel use and support Net Zero goals. ⚡🌍
hexham-courant.co.uk
Solar array to power hundreds of homes approved in rural Northumberland
A new solar array to power hundreds of homes was approved in rural Northumberland.
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