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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 01/06/2026

Oooh 👀 we're even closer now! Who's donation will get us over the line? Will it be yours? Let's #UpTheEnergy on #CommunityEnergy!

Crowdfunding progress widget showing £12,302 raised toward a £25,000 target. A circular graphic indicates the campaign is 49% complete, with 148 supporters and 24 days left.

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 21/04/2026

hey @mathewlawrence.bsky.social @cmmonwealth.bsky.social something's gone awry with the formatting of figure text here www.common-wealth.org/publications...

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 25/10/2025

I'm not sure if the article had "Who Funds Reform?" before I posted the above (not sure it did - but either way, good that it's got it now). Would make sense to also edit the URL to include those words too (and setting up a 301 redirect from the old URL to the new URL too, of course).

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 16/10/2025

📢 Join the #NetZero Terrace Streets team for our Update & #Finance Webinar on Thurs 30 Oct, 1–2 PM Find out how we’re scaling warm, #affordable, low-carbon homes through community-led #retrofit and investment in shared #heat infrastructure. 🔗 Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 🧵 1/5 #NZTS

Promotional graphic for the Net Zero Terrace Streets Update & Finance Webinar on Thursday, 30 October 2025, 1–2 PM (GMT), featuring partner logos and a “Join Now” link: bit.ly/NZTSfinance.

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 02/09/2025

More recently in this July 2025 AMA @greenparty.org.uk Reddit thread www.reddit.com/r/UKGreens/c... he said: 3/

"I'm pleased to see the government say that new builds will now have solar on them (that should have happened a long time ago!) But we also need major investment in lots of infrastructure with a particular focus on community infrastructure. That's because it reduces peoples bills, is good for the planet and crucial encourages democratic decision making in communities. This is essential to fight off the challenge of the right. Far too many people feel - and are accurate - that things are being done to them rather than with them. Community energy can play a huge part in this." – Zack Polanski, Leader, ‪The Green Party of England & Wales‬

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 27/08/2025

Hi @glynhudson.bsky.social this screenshot would seem to suggest you've played around with the @heat-geek.bsky.social Nano Store? Are you (or Heat Geek) able to share the data you previously shared there here? Thanks!

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 18/07/2025

👏 Great news! Keep up the great work! I've one *tiny* gripe with the website... it seems to be inadvertently normalising and promoting flying with the inclusion of this image 😛

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 06/05/2025

It seems you actually know Bridport is in Dorset but somehow the headline and captions saying it's in Devon *still* got through! 🤦 @rowanmoore.bsky.social @theobserveruk.bsky.social @tortoisemedia.bsky.social

Screenshot from the body of the same Observer article showing the correct location: “on the edge of Bridport, the Dorset town known for its literary festival, cider and a famous hat shop.” This contrasts with earlier incorrect references to “Devon.”

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 06/05/2025

👏 @rowanmoore.bsky.social great to see you covering #Bridport #Cohousing - but FYI Bridport is in #Dorset not Devon 😉

Screenshot of a Observer article misidentifying Bridport as being in Devon instead of Dorset. The headline reads: “Hazelmead’s 53 new homes have been hard won but cost less than £10m.” The location is listed twice as “Bridport, Devon.”

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 25/04/2025

My family & I are going on an exciting #interrail trip this summer! 🚄 We'll visit Brussels, Rotterdam, Berlin, Prague & Amsterdam! I just got new passports for my kids, and I'm sad they're not the purple #EU ones. Upset with those who voted for #Brexshit taking away our rights! #Brexit #Rail #Travel

A hand holding two new British passports — officially dark blue but clearly black in appearance, much like the symbolic victory they represent in the post-Brexit saga of self-inflicted wounds.

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 04/04/2025

When using the web developer tools I see these errors in the console

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 26/03/2025

That doesn't surprise me, but yes, it does! See e.g. this screenshot

Map from LandExplorer showing the land edged and hatched in red at 787 High Road, Goodmayes, Ilford (IG3 8TB), identified as BT Property IG0003, Goodmayes Telephone Exchange. The overlay indicates the property boundary in brown. A sidebar on the left provides property details: the leasehold owner is Arqiva Services Limited, with an address in Winchester. The title number is BGL91322 and the INSPIRE ID is 54447717.

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 04/03/2025

Should probably also update Co-op Congress 2024 as shown on this page too www.uk.coop/events-and-t... (it the page it links to have actually been updated to 2025 details)

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 14/02/2025

Who else is coming along to the wonderful Shindig Festival? Get your tickets now! shindigfestival.seetickets.com/even…

A colourful festival poster for Shindig Festival, taking place over four days from 22nd to 25th May at Charlton Park, Wiltshire. The poster features a retro-style design with bold, multicoloured text listing artists including Gilles Peterson, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Ibibio Sound Machine, Gentleman's Dub Club, Asian Dub Foundation, Moonchild Sanelly, Dub FX, Romare (Live), K.O.G, Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy, and many more. The bottom of the poster provides a website for full lineup details and ticket information: www.shindigfestival.co.uk

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 25/01/2025

TIL the *whole Internet* has the metadata for Barrington Levy's Original Ragga Muffin, Pt. 1 wrong. Most places have the tracks My Bible and Romantic muddled up. Try to listen to one and you get the other. Romantic is often called Buy Sensi too. Even Musicbrainz has the My Bible track length wrong!

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 16/01/2025

I was in tears as I strolled to the shops the other day, thinking about this image and this paper www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-… about how current policies leading to around 2.7 °C global warming could leave one-third (22–39%) of people outside the human niche. #ActonClimate

This image is a bar chart titled "Percentage of Species at Risk of Extinction by 2100." It compares the extinction risks for three categories of species (Vertebrates, Plants, and Insects) under three global warming scenarios: 1.5°C, 2°C, and 3.2°C.

Vertebrates:
4% at 1.5°C
8% at 2°C
26% at 3.2°C

Plants:
8% at 1.5°C
16% at 2°C
44% at 3.2°C

Insects:
6% at 1.5°C
18% at 2°C
49% at 3.2°C

The chart highlights the increasing risk of extinction as global temperatures rise, with Insects being the most affected group under higher warming scenarios. The source is credited as Warren et al., 2018, Science.

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 07/01/2025

I love this short little intro from @bridgetmck.bsky.social about being a Possitopian and her Earth Talk course/ community (see bridgetmckenzie.uk/earth-talk for more on that)

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 27/12/2024

BTW @buffer.com you've not got your character limits for @bsky.app configured exactly right. Here is the exact same text pasted into Buffer and direct on Bluesky - spot the difference? Tip: 18 characters (I guess something to do with how links are counted?)

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 15/12/2024

Wood also gives off LOTS more methane and nitrous oxide than either gas or oil. There are plenty of reasonable reasons why people continue to burn wood. But they shouldn't delude themselves about it somehow magically being better. It isn't. By most measures it's significantly worse.

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 15/12/2024

Well seasoned wood is still very polluting. But yeah wet wood is even worse again. Smokeless coal actually better than wood. Briquettes better still. In terms of health damaging PM 2.5 pollution.

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 06/12/2024

Thanks! The neat thing about Ethical Book Search is it automatically searches all of the most ethical suppliers in one go. Allow me to suggest you add the above link to danarfisher.com/pre-order-bo... 😉 BTW re the discount from the publisher, it seems perhaps it's US only as I just get this:

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 03/12/2024

@isoutar.bsky.social a bunch more #CommunityEnergy peeps for the Starter Pack to be found here too

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 03/12/2024

That's fun and I'm all for free contraceptives, but IMHO: "Human population growth — along with our reckless overconsumption — is driving the sixth mass extinction crisis." Is just the wrong way around to frame it. As per e.g. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A screenshot taken from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320722003949?via%3Dihub with the text:

Highlights

• Population is often mistakenly blamed as the main driver of biodiversity loss.
• However such arguments actually mis-apportion blame and hinder progress.
• Consumption patterns, largely from developed economies is a major driver of biodiversity loss.
• Maintaining global biodiversity will require reducing imported impacts.
• Sustainable supply chains and diets are crucial to counter current trends.

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 22/11/2024

Great to be hearing about #Bristol's #JustTransition Declaration from @BristolEnergyNw at @Comm1nrg's regional conference " It's messy but delicious" buff.ly/3rcKebU

The plain English version of Bristol's Just Transition Declaration listing the 10 key principles

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 22/11/2024

Our first Panel Discussion is getting started at the @Comm1nrg's #SouthWest #CommunityEnergy conference in #Bristol

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 22/11/2024

Michaela Cryar from @Comm1nrg principal supporter @Younity_UK shared all the things they do to support #CommunityEnergy. Check out younity.coop for full details

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 22/11/2024

#CommunityEnergy England's CEO Emma Bridge kicks things off at our packed regional conference.

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 22/11/2024

It's a full house for the #CommunityEnergy England Conference in #Bristol today. Everyone busy networking over lunch before we kick off shortly. Looking forward to the #CEawards2024 later too!

Community Energy practitioners from across the South West network over lunch at the Community Energy England Regional Conference

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 22/11/2024

Lovely sunny morning for the #CommunityEnergy England #Southwest conference at M Shed in #Bristol followed by the #CommunityEnergyAwards tonight

A picture of M Shed beside the docks in Bristol

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 19/03/2024

see eg this from library.uniteddiversity.coop/Climate_Chan... which is signed by 15484 scientists from 163 different countries

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 19/03/2024

The #wellbeing 5 a day: Give Connect Keep Learning Be Active Take Notice

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Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is · 25/10/2023

Absolutely terrifying and mind-boggling graphs from the latest warning from world leading earth systems and climate scientists "The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory" academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

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