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Marcus Grant

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Editor-in-Chief of Cities & Health journal. www.tandfonline.com/journals/rcah20

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I won't even allow a Google Home or Amazon Echo in my home, and I've been burned by *password managers* and bad Chrome extensions; I sure as heck won't trust Meta's Muse to do anything involving personal information
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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When Israeli settlers can besiege a Palestinian family, drive them from their home, block their court-ordered return, and face no consequences, that is not a breakdown of state policy, it is state policy. And that’s called ethnic cleansing.
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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"I realised how much we've been sold a myth - that flying is the only practical way to travel" London > Portugal by train. Not the harder choice, but the BETTER choice. 🚂💚
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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From our webinar with Tom and Yevheniia on Sunday! Click the link to help the Solidarity Guard, our protective presence force, continue urgent actions on the ground alongside Palestinian communities: standtog.org/4yimZu9
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ann Bancroft: the first woman to reach the North Pole on foot* in 1986 (dog-assisted). • 1993: First woman to reach both the North & South Poles on foot (S. Pole unassisted) • 2001: First woman to ski across Antarctica with Norwegian Liv Arnesen Born #OTD in 1955. *walked, snowshoed and/or skied
A close-up photograph of the rugged, joyful countenance of American polar explorer Ann Bancroft (born September 29, 1955), the first woman to cross the ice to both the North and South Poles. Set against a stark, high-key backdrop of a vast, white Arctic or Antarctic ice expanse under an overcast, pale sky, she looks directly at the camera with a wide, radiant smile that crinkles her eyes. Her weather-beaten face is flushed pink from the intense polar cold. Her dark, graying hair is windblown and messy, held back by dark, reflective sunglasses resting atop her head. She wears heavy polar expedition gear, including a dark navy jacket with a thick, fluffy brown fur-trimmed hood framing her face, layered over a bright purple collar, a red knit undershirt, and a visible zipper. The composition centers on her resilient expression, conveying a triumphant, adventurous, and authentic mood that highlights her historical significance as a barrier-breaking explorer.
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Younity @younityuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🌍⚠️ A UK intelligence report links climate and nature loss directly to national security. It warns that collapsing ecosystems could increase risks of food shortages, migration, conflict and economic disruption. Showing how climate change is starting to be treated as a security and resilience issue.
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Why is the UK’s suppressed climate national security report significant?
Warnings about the catastrophic effects of vital ecosystems collapsing were not published under previous prime minister
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We have enough food, technology, and money to save the planet. We just have a system where destroying it is more profitable. That's not a climate problem. That's a greed problem. #ClimateJustice
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jonathan-e.bsky.social @jonathan-e.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcQT...
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Rep. Noah Arbit Floor Speech on Antisemitism and Zionism
YouTube video by State Representative Noah Arbit
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Discussion poster as seen in Vancouver.
A black-and-white poster on the city pole that says Community can we have a safe route for our kids to walk back to school 
City: no a driver might get mad
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JM 📎🟦🪬🥯🥡🥠🦀 @jmdc88.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Optics vs. math at the UN 🎥🎙️⌨️ rudawenglish and namo_abdulla - Rudaw's UN correspondent was inside the General Assembly Hall and explains why this video is misleading.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
'How a ​grassroots ​film ​is ​turning ​climate anxiety ​into ​action' "The People’s Emergency Briefing delivers a stark warning about ​o​ur future in a warming world. ​B​ut sharing difficult truths collectively​ shows us that there is still hope to be found" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Friday briefing: How a ​grassroots ​film ​is ​turning ​climate anxiety ​into ​action
In today’s newsletter: The People’s Emergency Briefing delivers a stark warning about ​o​ur future in a warming world. ​B​ut sharing difficult truths collectively​ shows us that there is still hope to...
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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I saw this at a local community centre recently. Climate and ecological emergency of a threat than COVID, creeping creeping ever closer. Catch a viewing if you can at a community near you.
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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Airport expansion as the climate stability our lives depend on increasing fails. Homo kamikaze has replaced Homo sapiens.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Big #batteries fed on a diet of excess #wind and #solar are increasingly muscling out fossil fuels from the lucrative evening peak. reneweconomy.com.au/chart-of-the...
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Chart of the Day: Big batteries are muscling out fossil fuels and gas – not coal – is the "biggest loser"
Neat chart offers new snapshot on how big batteries fed on a diet of excess wind and solar are increasingly muscling out fossil fuels from the lucrative evening peak.
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Lisa - TogetherAgain @togetheragain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The people STAYING are chanting "am yisrael chai," which I've always heard translated as "Israel lives" or "the people of Israel live." And I feel horribly ill, because Jewish people like me are supposed to sing that with JOY. It's not supposed to be used to support genocide 🤢😭
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There is one solitary (and very literal) ray of sunshine amidst this gloom: the steady rise of #solar, #wind and #batteries. Clean energy trinity has broken out and expanded across the planet – the great uniting project of our time. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The climate fight has one great ally. You just can’t look at it directly | Bill McKibben
There is hope in solar power. As the UN meets, we are urging leaders to pursue a clear goal: clean energy for all by 2030
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 24/09/2026
This El Niño is a warning. As the planet warms, the risks to communities, economies, and supply chains across the globe become harder to ignore. The answer isn’t more fossil fuels - it’s clean energy, warmer homes, and restored nature.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
French marine biologist Jeanne Villepreux-Power invented the first glass aquarium for scientific study in 1832. Her sealed tanks (with aeration & water stability) enabled live observation of sea creatures, which was revolutionary in marine research. She was born #OTD in 1794. #WomenInSTEM
Sepia-toned 1861 photograph by André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri of Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794–1871), pioneering French marine biologist and inventor of the glass aquarium. She stands in three-quarter profile facing left, leaning elegantly on a tall decorative pedestal vase adorned with flowers. She wears a formal Victorian gown with a fitted bodice of intricate black lace over dark fabric, long lace sleeves, and a voluminous hoop-skirted skirt. Her dark hair is styled in a low chignon, and she gazes thoughtfully to the side in a studio setting with a neutral backdrop.
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Doctor Of Music @doctorofmusic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Here you go George. With thanks for the good work which you do ;-)
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 24/09/2026
We're doing infrastructure all wrong. Just a few well placed high speed rail lines, with of course wildlife overpasses in key places, and we'd alleviate some of that highway congestion. But nooooo We gotta prioritize fossil fuels.
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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Looking forward to the Healthy City Design Congress as a member of the Programme Committee and Editor-in-Chief of @citiesxhealth.bsky.social. The Lowry, MediaCity, Salford, 20th October. Find out more about the programme and register: www.healthycitydesign.global #HealthyCityDesign #HCD2026
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Evelyne de Leeuw @evdle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
With some regularity I have been observing that Trimpism and MAGAts regress about a century. But DJT's stupid speech at #UNGA shows he intends to deteriorate even further. Early Middle Ages. Violent feifdoms, belief in magic and forever wars. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
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September 22, 2026
In 1945, still reeling from World War II, representatives from 50 nations reached back to the U.S.
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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We, @thegreenrunners.bsky.social, @badvertising.bsky.social and Flight Free UK, call on event organisers whose races are sponsored by Wizz Air to ditch the airline at the next opportunity and to sign the Cool Down Network’s Fossil Free Declaration. Sign the petition! www.change.org/p/drop-pollu...
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Drop Polluting Sponsors - Stop taking the Whizz
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Mark Robins @byhedge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
‘Climate and nature must be embedded in national security systems’. Not in the imagination (?) of our useless FF/FG government. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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World leaders address climate crisis before UN meet amid record-breaking El Niño
Prime ministers of Australia and Iceland discuss effects on their countries even as some shy away in face of war and inflation
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🌊 Ocean acidification has now joined the list of exceeded planetary boundaries. That makes 7 of 9. These are interconnected Earth-system pressures, collectively eroding resilience and shrinking humanity’s safe operating space. www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
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Lock him up! @lockhimup86.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Aw jeez. There goes the concept of nuclear being "green"...
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Chris Grumpy & Getting Grumpier @fusewiretheloud.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Nuclear power plants leaves radioactive waste that has a half life longer than the time the human race has been recognisably human! Our descendants will be dealing with the consequences of our generations pollution for 100s of thousands of years!
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Lisa Schiff @crkrjx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Between 1949 and 1982, more than 200,000 barrels of low-level radioactive waste (150,000 tons) were dumped into the ocean. Now, scientists have descended to the wreckage to investigate – and found many of the barrels corroded and degraded, their contents spilling across the seafloor.
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150,000 Tons of Radioactive Waste Were Dumped in The Atlantic. Decades Later, It's Visibly Oozing.
Well, well, well. If it isn't consequences.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026
As Yom Kippur came to a close this evening, I was privileged to join my friend, Ruth Messinger, at a break fast in her home. It was an honor to celebrate this moment of renewal with many of our Jewish neighbors. May it be a year of justice, joy and peace.
Mayor Mamdani, Ruth Messinger, and two children hold challah bread.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Absolutely horrifying. How can our government be planning to drill for new oil and gas when we know these are the consequences? We have to keep the pressure on this Labour Government to keep all fossil fuels in the ground and secure a safe future for our children and grandchildren.
Babies will face almost twice as much extreme fire weather in Europe that great grandparents
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The Green Runners @thegreenrunners.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Nine European races are sponsored by Wizz Air. Together with @badvertising.bsky.social & @flightfreeuk.bsky.social, we call on the races to drop the airline at the earliest opportunity. Big polluters have no place in our sport. They’re taking the Whizz 🤬 ✍️ Sign our petition. 🛑 Stop #sportswashing
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Drop Polluting Sponsors - Stop taking the Whizz
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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Summer of terrifying drought and wildfire, bus drivers sweltering in shocking temperatures, everyone losing sleep unable to get cool at night and *this* is the policy they come up with? Just makes things worse and does nothing to address inequality or enable people to walk, cycle or catch a bus. 🤷‍♀️
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 19/09/2026
Five police forces who’ve been trying a Palantir surveillance tool are set to drop it: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/rev…
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Revealed: Five police forces to drop Palantir surveillance tool
Exclusive: Palantir's UK policing ambitions take a hit as East Midlands forces end their involvement in a controversial data pilot.
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pmf @clearlight.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
He really hasn’t been silent on this stuff His view has always been pretty clear That the pre-dominant, Israeli government flavour of Zionism is clearly racist, some other belief-systems that get called Zionism aren’t and the resolution is stupid because it conflates the one with the other
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It is often presented to us that what is good for Wall Street is good for us. David Graeber explained that this is not really true.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 19/09/2026
I gave a talk yesterday at a clean tech in incubator, and this was literally my thesis.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams is the second-most experienced female spacewalker with 9 spacewalks. Her total spacewalk time of 62 hours and 6 minutes is fourth overall and the most by a woman. She was born #OTD in 1965. #WomenInSTEM
An official NASA portrait of astronaut Sunita Williams wearing a full white Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit. The bulky suit displays an American flag patch on the left shoulder, a mission patch on the right, and various controls on the chest pack; she holds the gold-visored helmet. With long dark hair framing her smiling face, she poses confidently in front of a large draped American flag against a cloudy Earth-toned backdrop, symbolizing American space exploration.
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The WAR ON WALKING has taken many forms around the world. It’s often as simple as how we signal who space is and isn’t for. Once our eyes are opened to all the ways we’ve prioritized cars over people, we can’t unsee it. Frustrating photo contributed by @stadsplanering.bsky.social. #WarOnWalking
Background photo from North Macedonia, where “sidewalks are mostly used to park cars” as explained by photo contributor Carl-Henrik Barnekow. Text says “Don’t buy the lie that there’s a war on cars. They’ve been waging a war on walking for a century.” Via the Urban Truth Collective. #WarOnCars #UrbanTruth
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Brilliant mathematician Emmy Noether was initially barred from teaching at University of Göttingen because she was a woman. She taught for 4 years as a "guest lecturer" under David Hilbert's name. Hilbert, exasperated at the stupidity of the rule: "Gentlemen, this is not a bathing establishment."
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From Algebra to Airplane Crashes, Emmy Noether’s Lasting Influence on Mathematics
Emmy Noether, whom some consider the “Mother of Modern Mathematics,” continues to shape modern research and the studies of mathematicians today; including research into the investigation of airplane c...
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Facts worth repeating: It would be cheaper to pay the ~40,000 or so people employed by the coal industry $1M a year to do nothing than to pay for the health damages (not including climate change) caused by burning coal in the U.S. publichealth.hsc.wvu.edu/news/story?h...
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Counting up the costs of coal
Regular readers know that WVU’s Dr. Michael Hendryx has done work on that issue (subscription required), reporting that:
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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 17/09/2026
The inimitable @mikegrunwald.bsky.social has an exceptionally well written oped on the disastrous proposal from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol to give companies carbon credit for cutting down trees.
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Opinion | The Latest Corporate Climate Ruse (Gift Article)
Making deforestation look climate-friendly will encourage a lot more deforestation.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
US Million Person Study on low dose rate exposures to radiation. Association with Parkinson’s disease; lung cancer; leukemia; increases in all solid cancers: evidence that chromosomal damage could be detected 65 years after veteran exposure to fallout from #nuclear weapons testing. lnkd.in/eV5dpzJv
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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Read that again... 😳 80% of ALL UK emissions from flying alone. A climate disaster written right there in black and white. Expanding our way to net zero is not the way forward! ✈️❌
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Ciaran Mundy @ciaranmundy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Known as the plastisphere, these surfaces form a hotspot for interactions between plastics, microbes and agrochemicals”
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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Climate Change Committee @thecccuk.bsky.social says it plainly - a new runways would emit as much carbon dioxide as the whole city of Birmingham. Relying on unproven fixes isn't action - it's wishful thinking. We can't claim to lead on climate while building more ways to fly. 🙄
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ditching flights is one of the biggest single changes most people can make. It's not just a step but a stride - every choice matters! 💚
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