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Laurinda Luffman

@laurindaluffman.bsky.social
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Foundation partnerships @rspb.bsky.social, Head of Fundraising @nffn.bsky.social, writer, reader, on-the-wild-side gardener & Stratton Community Farm Director. All views my own.

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Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Surely this abysmal Reform record should be more widely publicized.
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 09/10/2026
"It's been hotter. It's been drier. Our river for the first time in anybody's memory: puddles," said Deirdre Macnab, a cattle rancher from Colorado. "There is no food. It is very frightening." Big Oil has lied about the climate harms of its products for decades and must be held accountable.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Great response, and that racist braverman, rather than dealing with the major issues, spouts racist views live on TV.
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Laurinda Luffman @laurindaluffman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Two neighbouring houses. Two semicircular lawns. One mowed really short in the drought. One left longer so the grass blades benefited from the dew. No prizes for guessing which one has bounced back 😂 @lgspace.bsky.social
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 01/10/2026
What if protecting nature could also create jobs and strengthen economies? From restoring degraded land to recycling e-waste and protecting marine ecosystems, solutions are already showing what’s possible. See some examples of what’s working: tinyurl.com/mutvrcj5
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Little Green Space 🐝 @lgspace.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Please don't cut back hedgerows until wildlife has taken all the autumn berries! #gardening #nature
Bright red berries with hazy green hedgerow behind them
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Miatta Fahnbulleh at LCEF fringe, Labour conference: the decisions on Rosebank and Jackdaw are mine to take, they’re a quasi-judicial decision, based on a set of clear tests - if I get it wrong I can be judicially reviewed. Ultimately the North Sea is a declining basin, 90% has gone…
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Laurinda Luffman @laurindaluffman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Let's hope so! She's a super intelligent woman with a background in this sector. If Miatta can't resist the industry lobbying on this, there's really no hope for the UK's 'leadership' on climate.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/09/2026
‘You can taste the land’: the Somerset farmer bringing wildflowers back to cheddar
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‘You can taste the land’: the Somerset farmer bringing wildflowers back to cheddar
Tom Calver has sacrificed milk yields to give his cows a more varied diet of plants and believes the result is better cheese and richer farmland
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
✅ #Burnham's £30m: helpful. 📢 But statement is weak when UK climate action is not in line with science, nor world we now live. 🤐 And when Govt won't tell us how ministers were advised in setting the carbon budget. 🚨 See Carbon Reckoning's case being filed next week 👉 bsky.app/profile/dran...
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WePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In this video, @georgemonbiot.bsky.social and @marklynas.bsky.social go an adventure to watch bluefin tuna. George explains how Atlantic bluefin tuna were fished to near-extinction — but now, are in recovery Tell the UK Government: Defend bluefin tuna! Sign the petition: shorturl.at/fTY80
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?
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The Beatles banned segregated audiences, contract shows
The Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows.
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Laurinda Luffman @laurindaluffman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Fascinating that guaranteed high returns on fossil fuel investments are a myth: "Investors contributed a total of $190.4bn to these funds and got $192.9bn back, about 1% more than they had invested."
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/09/2026
Benedict Cumberbatch on his Earth-saving eco film: ‘We are in the last grab of the extraction era’
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Benedict Cumberbatch on his Earth-saving eco film: ‘We are in the last grab of the extraction era’
From Obama’s chef to a big cat obsessive, the actor has gathered experts from Alaska, the Amazon and beyond for a film about how to heal our besieged palent. He talks about naysayers, elephant tusks – and the wonders of venison
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Andrew Simms @andrewsimms.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It’s not normal in a health & climate crisis to actively promote highly polluting products that make things worse. Congrats to Bristol - the latest city to end ads for things like fossil fuels, flights and SUVs. @badvertising.bsky.social @adfreecities.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Bristol becomes first city to ban fast fashion adverts
New rules prohibits the promotion of flights, cars and travel agents on council-owned billboards.
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's a mystery!
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 15/09/2026
🚨 NEW! 🚨 "...a big contributor to the climate crisis writ large, and the greenwashing of ad and PR agencies specifically, is people’s willingness to keep their heads down and proceed with business as usual. " - Jessie Bludorn
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Q&A: This Comedy Series Is Taking Aim at Big Oil’s PR Machine
SLICK is a funny yet cutting satire of how the ad industry contributes to the climate crisis.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#FoodSystem #PublicHealth
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I was asked "What do other countries do about big money in politics?" Canada is a useful case study as their parliamentary system closely mirrors the UK's (for obvious reasons) - except they've totally clamped down on mega-donations.
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ECIU @eciu.net · 14/09/2026
UK arable farmers lose billions after 3 years of ‘devastating’ harvests Cumulative harvest losses after extreme weather hit harvests in 2024, 2025 and 2026 suggests British farmers on track to lose nearly £5BN in real terms eciu.net/media/press...
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UK arable farmers lose billions after three years of ‘devastating’…
New analysis of cumulative harvest losses after extreme weather hit harvests in 2024, 2025 and 2026 suggests British farmers on track to lose nearly £5 billion in real terms.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/09/2026
The bird that changed Ecuador: how a chance discovery of a rare species helped to save many more
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The bird that changed Ecuador: how a chance discovery of a rare species helped to save many more
Thirty years after a US ornithologist first sighted a jocotoco antpitta, the foundation he set up to restore biodiversity is a model for conservation globally
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Laurinda Luffman @laurindaluffman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
How fantastic is this!
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Fiery-billed Aracari 43-45cm Costa Rica and western Panama Diet fruits, figs, insects during breeding season Parents take turns incubating 2 eggs for 16 days 3 or more additional adult helpers join in to share the load of feeding the chicks 45 days in the nest, and 3 weeks after they fledge
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Little Green Space 🐝 @lgspace.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This autumn, please consider leaving dead plants in your garden rather than 'tidying' them up. Over the winter they will provide sheltered spots for hibernating ladybirds and lots of other insects, beetles and bugs 🐞
Ladybird on a green plant
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Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus): This 30cm (12in) long bird is a true Parrot and native to Australia. They are extremely colourful birds and also extremely noisy. They have also been illegally introduced into New Zealand. Great photo taken by Penelope P. in Australia. 🦜#lorikeet #rainbow
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Laurinda Luffman @laurindaluffman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
#r4today is no longer for thoughtful, enquiring, caring people with an interest in public affairs. My days are so much better without it.
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Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Eurasian Hoopoe (Upupa epops): 28cm (11in). This Afro-Eurasian bird is distinguished by its colourful plumage and the crown of feathers which it can extend. Spectacular photo taken by Bernard Liegeois in France. #hoopoe #bird #nature #france #wildlife #bsky
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 08/09/2026
Also? Because climate impacts are nonlinear in global surface temperature rise, "the next gigatonne of climate pollution will cause more suffering and death than the previous gigatonne" will remain true for the rest of our lives. The case for mitigation gets stronger the more we emit.
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Another Green @anothergreen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The future is a race between electrification and fascism!
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Cc: food, agriculture, and land use folks
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🌐 Rio 1992: rich countries promised to prevent dangerous climate change 🥵 34 years on, dangerous CC is here. 🤔 UK sets its carbon budget for the "safe" world that no longer exists. We are going to Court to change that 👉 www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-... ♻️ See 🧵 👇 bsky.app/profile/dran...
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🤔 Protester Terrorist
Hundreds of protesters, dressed in black and wearing face coverings, blocked roads in the Port of Dover and chanted "stop the boats" on 6 September 2026. There were no arrests.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8znyzgkjjo?app-referrer=deep-linkPicture from sit-in protest in Parliament Square over the banned group Palestine Action in August 2025 showing middle-aged lady being carried away by police. 522 demonstrators were arrested on suspicion of breaking terrorism laws - more than double the total such arrests in 2024.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3wn5gdv0wgo
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Laurinda Luffman @laurindaluffman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Getting a huge nature-fueled buzz from my garden ivy today - literally!! @buglife.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is deeply shocking.
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We need a government that will be upfront with the public, not parrot fossil fuel talking points. A Prime Minister who will protect our national security and long-term prosperity. He must say NO to more drilling in the North Sea.
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North Sea oil and gas is a test of leadership for Labour and they’re already failing
This summer we reached an inflection point. From now on, people living in the UK will only become more familiar with the real-world consequences of...
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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Possibly the most shocking revelation in this whole thing is that Nigel Farage was at one point in Clacton.
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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Jen , the MT liberal bird lady @liberal-jen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A murmuration of starlings above Sardinia, Italy. One of my favorite natural phenomena.
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Eloise Powers @elnopower.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
- The American kestrel (Falco sparverius) is the smallest and most common falcon in the Americas. - Photo courtesy of George Rosema.
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MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In Farage’s words : boom! ‘…a yearlong Verbatim investigation…exposes a plot – masterminded by the Reform leader's top advisers, and welcomed by Farage himself – to break election law by funnelling foreign money into British politics.’
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Dirty Money: A Year Undercover in Reform UK
A yearlong investigation into Nigel Farage’s fundraising operation reveals a plot to break the law by bringing foreign money into British politics
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Adrian Ramsay @adrianramsay.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Climate breakdown is a national security threat. Nature loss puts our food, water, health, economy and stability at risk. The Government no longer has the luxury of time. We need urgent action and a dedicated Climate Protection Unit. We need a Number 10 for the future.
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 02/09/2026
RIP 1.5
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What if climate change isn't the greatest threat to life on Earth? 🌡️ 🌎 The Earth has physical limits called planetary boundaries, these are 'the safe operating space for humanity', the guardrails keeping Earth stable. 🧵 1/6
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Climate Crisis Info (from Bryan Godbe) @bryangodbe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
CLIMATE CRISIS "Global heating will reach at least 1.8C under the most optimistic future, according to a UN report warning every fraction of temperature rise intensifies destructive extreme weather, glacier melt, ecosystem loss, & island/coastal city submersion." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Global heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, and there are ‘no good outcomes’
But scientists say the world could get back to 1.5C through deep, rapid emissions cuts and removing carbon from the atmosphere
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Laurinda Luffman @laurindaluffman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!
  Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 01/09/2026
The hottest summer on record. The worst arable harvest on record. A climate crisis already hitting communities around the world. Andy Burnham must rule out more drilling at Jackdaw and Rosebank.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
How do I know? Because they've told us. Madsen Pirie, founder of the Adam Smith Institute, was foolish enough to describe the process in his autobiography. What he showed us was how power in this country really works: www.monbiot.com/2012/10/01/p...
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Plutocracy’s Boot Boys
We’re getting a better idea of how billionaires and corporations capture government policy.
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