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Lorna Taylor

@novelfinds.bsky.social
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Raised in Angus, embedded in Shropshire, working on climate emergency/ biodiversity crash/creating safer streets for walking/ cycling. And novel writing.

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Francis Sealey @globalnet21.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Driving that’s too fast, too dangerous and utterly lawless: why do we tolerate this petro-masculinity? In towns and in the countryside, I see SUVs and pickup trucks driven without care or conscience. It’s the Magafication of transport www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Driving that’s too fast, too dangerous and utterly lawless: why do we tolerate this petro-masculinity? | George Monbiot
In towns and in the countryside, I see 4x4s and pick up trucks driven without care or conscience. It’s a Magafication of transport, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
ExxonMobil latest Global Outlook: pretty good business while heading for climate disaster. corporate.exxonmobil.com/publications...
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ExxonMobil Global Outlook: Our view to 2050 | ExxonMobil
The Global Outlook is ExxonMobil’s view of demand and supply of energy and related products through 2050.
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Dr Chloe Brimicombe @chlobrim.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
New Month - Summer 2026 the hottest since records began in the UK in 1884. I spoke about some of the health implications, global early weather warning systems and air conditioning and other cooling policy, we need to make sure the most vulnerable people have access.
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.
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Lorna Taylor @novelfinds.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Data centres are springing up everywhere, using massive amounts of energy and water. I’ve signed @friends-earth.bsky.social’s petition calling for a pause on new data centres until the government gets a grip on the situation. Will you join me? action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/put...
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Stop data centres draining our precious resources
Add my name Data centres are springing up all over the UK – using massive amounts of electricity and, in many cases, huge amounts of water. The UK is already facing water shortages, high energy demand...
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Lorna Taylor @novelfinds.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Shropshire Supports The Solomon Siren www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/shropshire...
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Shropshire Supports The Solomon Siren
Install a seabed Siren sculpture rising from the Pacific reef mourning the loss of an ancestral island to create new life and hope
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Just Kevin @kevinleecaster.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Interesting study to start today's biochar 🧵 Addition of copper nanoparticles to wood chips when pyrolyzed in CO2 atmosphere not only manufactures terrific contaminant filter and destruction material but also makes more syngas with a lot less biooil production. biochartoday.com/news/copper-...
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Copper-Infused Biochar Achieves Over Ninety-Nine Percent Pollutant Removal and Boosts Green Syngas Yields to Ninety-Four Percent
A recent study in npj Clean Water by Chohee Yang and colleagues demonstrates that engineered copper infused biochar removes ninety point eight percent of bisphenol A via adsorption, achieves over n…
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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 26/06/2026
As cars get bigger & bigger they take up more space on streets & in car parks and pose an increasing safety risk to road users. 👏LTDA for raising this issue with Wimbledon & their fleet of 170+ SUVs for tennis players🎾 Wouldn't smaller safer vehicles be better? www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...
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Just Kevin @kevinleecaster.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Utilization of farm residues as pyrolyzed biochar soil amendment allows a shift toward sustainable closed-loop agricultural practices and carbon-neutrality. biochartoday.com/news/india-c...
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Transforming Indian Agriculture: Pyrolysis for Soil and Air
Discover how India is transforming agriculture with pyrolyzed biomass to combat pollution and revive degraded soils. Learn more about this innovation!
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Nature @nature.com · 11/06/2026
In an extraordinary climate-change twist, marine creatures are gaining new homes on the Arctic sea floor, thanks to glaciers breaking up hundreds of kilometres away go.nature.com/3S4HPNk
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Rocks falling from melting icebergs host deep-sea oases of biodiversity
A ripple effect of climate change is providing habitat for corals, sponges and other Arctic animals.
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Just Kevin @kevinleecaster.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
New BP CEO Meg O’Neill made fast work restructuring the Big Oil giant eliminating all of their minor “low carbon energy” business and reemphasized its core mission to make our planet uninhabitable. 🔌💡 fortune.com/2026/06/09/b...
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BP's new CEO Meg O'Neill rips up the energy giant's playbook—and the 'green' era with it | Fortune
O’Neill, who took over on April 1, is the only woman to serve as CEO of a traditional Big Oil supermajor in Europe or the U.S.
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My Zero Carbon #ClimateAction @myzerocarbon.org · 10/06/2026
. Short, sharp and more strategic': the EU's new approach to climate talks | Reuters Find out more: www.reuters.com/sustainabil... #ClimateAction
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'Short, sharp and more strategic': the EU's new approach to climate talks
The EU wants to target fewer, clearer goals at the world's annual climate ‌summit in November, building alliances in advance to avoid a repeat of last year's bruising talks where the bloc struggled to advance its agenda, a document showed on Monday.
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The private jets and lifestyle emissions are just the visible tip of the climate harms caused by the ultra rich It's not their footprints doing all the damage, it's their handprints
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Super-rich’s assets cause outsized amount of climate harm, study says
Greenpeace calculates that wealthiest contribute nearly $1tn of damage a year with ownership-based emissions
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Amazon UK entities' pre-tax profits up from £455m to £555m. It pays corporation tax at an effective rate of 7.1%, headline rate is 25%. Profits shifted through intragroup transactions. UK retailers can't compete with hard-wired systematic tax avoidance.
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Amazon’s main UK arm handed £7.6m tax credit as profits soar to £355m
Tech company received infrastructure relief as its five biggest UK divisions generate £32bn in revenues
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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 09/06/2026
As part of our commitment to reduce road danger, we're installing new pedestrian & cycle crossings across London. Great to see work progressing on the Cassland Road crossing - helping connect Victoria Park, Well Street Common & the Barnabus Rd LTN. 👍 Hackney Council & TfL
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
It's hard to know where rock ends, and tree begins, under the blanket of mosses and other epiphytes on this boulder-grown old oak in the woods. The magic of an Irish rainforest. 🌍
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brooke bikes mke @brookebikesmke.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Two things I love about cargo bike like: 1) My husband needed the car today to give a disabled person a ride. Our dentist is about five miles away, but the ebike means I don’t need to own, insure, and fuel a second car to get there. 2) My kid cheers me on from the back when I climb hills. 🥰
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Younity @younityuk.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
☀️🇮🇪 Renewables generated 39% of Ireland's electricity in May, up from 33% a year earlier. It was also a record month for solar, with grid-scale generation reaching a new peak of 1,222 MW as solar's contribution to the electricity mix continued to grow. ⚡🌱
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Renewables generate 39% of Ireland’s electricity in May
Overall electricity system demand stood at 2,794 GWh in May compared to 2,865 GWh in April
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 10/06/2026
Public ownership of water is hugely popular. In a democracy this should count for something. But the government continues to protect private water profiteers. Baroness Jenny Jones helped deliver a letter to the Environment Secretary, asking her to tell the truth about water public ownership.
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ECIU @eciu.net · 10/06/2026
Did you know the EV charging industry in the UK is projected to contribute £15.5bn in direct economic value over the next decade? New analysis from ChargeUK finds that further weakening of the ZEV mandate could 1/2 investment by charge point operators over the next 5 years
UK EV charging sector projected to create 71,500 jobs and secure £30 billion investment by 2035, with risks from government policies.
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Just Kevin @kevinleecaster.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Every state needs a carbon tax like California's which is funding decarbonization efforts like this.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
All the UK's problems today stem from the Thatcher era and the massive increase in inequality of wealth #BlameMillionairesNotMigrants meme vva Jeff Shute
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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 09/06/2026
Data centre electricity demand is projected to exceed the entire power consumption of the state. Already, data centres are adding an estimated €1.6 billion to Irish households’ electricity bills, while paying around half the rate charged to ordinary consumers. This model is unsustainable.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
TOMORROW - looking forward to talking #GreenThinking at the wonderful @owlbookshop.bsky.social in Kentish Town, Camden @camdengreenparty.bsky.social @islingtongreens.bsky.social @londongreenparty.bsky.social owlbookshop.co.uk/product/nata...
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Natalie Bennett – Owl Bookshop
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Jonathan @renewableenergy.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Solar, wind and geothermal energy is not “alternative energy”, it is the original energy.
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Younity @younityuk.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
🌊💨🇨🇳 China has launched the world's first wind-powered underwater data centre off the coast of Shanghai. Powered by a nearby offshore wind farm, the facility is designed to use less energy and water than conventional land-based datacentres ⚡🤖
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World’s first wind-powered underwater datacentre starts operating in China
Datacentre off Shanghai coast uses less power and water than land-based equivalent
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David Gregory-Kumar @drdavidgk.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
EXCELLENT. NO NOTES.
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David Gregory-Kumar @drdavidgk.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
We had an extra pick up at nursery as another parent had an emergency. Nothing easier in the bike. Strapped in, helmet on and off we go. They loved riding with the girls!
Three kids in a cargo bike
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
'A Field in England' (dir. Ben Wheatley, 2013)
Trower's hand in A Field in EnglandFriend holding a shovel in A Field in EnglandA distant Whitehead as seen through a spider's web in A Field in EnglandWhitehead inspecting Jacob's yard in A Field in England
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I lived in this house for 11 years dreaming that someday I'd have flowers planted where there was just dirt and concrete. It was never the best time to do it. Then I got my diagnosis and realized there was no "better time" coming, that whatever life I wanted to live had to be now.
White, yellow, pink, and purple blooms and exuberant greenery, against light colored pebbles and flagstone.
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Lior Steinberg @steinberg.nu · 09/06/2026
A smart city has nothing to do with artificial intelligence or sensors. A city is smart when children can walk and cycle freely and safely. Technology is only a bonus. 📸 Picture by @dutchcycling.nl
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Just Kevin @kevinleecaster.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Center for Rural Affairs has published a paper looking at what they refer to as agrisolar and taxes. Thoughtful tax policy can encourage agrivoltaic approaches that strengthen farm viability, support energy needs, and keep land in agricultural use. www.cfra.org/publications
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Reports & Publications | Center For Rural Affairs - Building a Better Rural Future
We aren't afraid of the weeds. The people living in rural America deserve a serious and in-depth look at the issues and forces impacting their communities.
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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 08/06/2026
Cycling in London is booming - with 1.5m cycle trips every day. So we're expanding London's network of cycleways to keep people safe. Great to see construction underway on permanent bike lanes on Goodsway, Kings Cross, Camden. @camdencouncil.bsky.social TfL 🚲🚲
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
What an absolute disgrace. A FIFA-certified referee being denied entry to the United States purely because he is Somali. The World Cup is meant to bring people together. This is racism, plain and simple. Shameful. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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World Cup 2026: Somali referee Omar Artan to miss tournament after being barred from entering US
Omar Artan, who was set to be the first Somali to referee at the World Cup finals, is dropped from the list of officials after he was denied entry to the United States.
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Lorna Taylor @novelfinds.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/shropshire...
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Shropshire Supports The Solomon Siren
Install a seabed Siren sculpture rising from the Pacific reef mourning the loss of an ancestral island to create new life and hope
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hfxgirl @hfxgirl.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I got this as we were driving. It was so far away and half hidden by the hill but I SAW MY FIRST ICEBERG!!!
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Lin Hawthorne @haggewoods.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Lotus corniculatus Bird’s-foot Trefoil: Blooms May–Sept in grassy places, verges, short turf, and in meadows, it’s one of the quickest to rebloom after cutting, resulting in a prolonged flowering period. following, here are some of the butterfly dependants:
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Concretebotany @concretebotany.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Mullein, reaching for the sky in the Food Distribution District this morning. #Wildflowers #UrbanWildflowers #UrbanFlora
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
🌊 Severe stress on oceans: 👉 Sea-level rise accelerated from 2 mm/year before 2015 to 4.3 mm/year in 2023 👉 16% of global ocean heat gain since 1955 occurred after 2018 👉 The Atlantic and southern Indian and Pacific Oceans have experienced the strongest warming www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Severe’ stress on oceans as rate of sea level rise doubles in 10 years, UN warns
Global effort needed to limit effects of pollution, industrial fishing and climate crisis, World Ocean Assessment says
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/06/2026
I WOULD LOSE MY MIND OVER THIS Data centers promise jobs. Then the neighbors get headaches, sleepless nights, and a lawyer. More than 1,300 households are suing over the noise. Politicians approve data centers and leave residents holding the bill and the after effects.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
JUST DROPPED: Pakistan's solar boom is one of the energy transition's wildest stories, and nobody planned it. World's #2 panel importer in 2025, mostly on rooftops. No subsidy, no scheme. But it also has a dark side. More in my latest newsletter 👇 janrosenow.substack.com/p/pakistan-t...
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Pakistan: the solar revolution nobody planned
The fastest distributed-solar rollout in the world happened almost entirely by accident.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
And just to be clear: I'm not advocating for data centres to be build or think it is a good thing that they use a lot of energy. But if they get built it is much better to capture the waste heat.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
A data centre is usually treated as a grid problem: a large, growing electricity load. In Finland it's becoming a heat asset. Fortum has switched on two industrial heat pump plants that will recover waste heat from neighbouring data centres from next year. www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/07/l...
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Large-scale heat pumps utilize excess heat from Microsoft data centers in Finland - pv magazine Global
Finnish energy company Fortum has switched on two industrial-scale heat pumps in southern Finland that will utilize excess heat from two local data centres belonging to Microsoft from next year. The c...
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Younity @younityuk.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
⚡🇪🇺 The EU is considering tax reforms that would make electricity cheaper than gas, helping to lower energy bills and accelerate the shift to clean technologies. The proposals could boost the uptake of EVs, heat pumps and electrification while reducing reliance on imported fossil fuels. 🔋🌍
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EU plans tax changes to reduce electricity bills, draft shows
The European Union is preparing changes to ‌energy taxes and network charges, including plans to tax electricity at a lower rate than gas, in a bid to cut consumers' power bills, a draft proposal seen...
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Younity @younityuk.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
China's leading solar manufacturers are increasingly turning to battery storage as solar panel sales slow and margins come under pressure. With global demand for energy storage continuing to grow, batteries are becoming a key part of the next phase of the clean energy transition. ⚡🌍
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China's solar majors charge into batteries as panel sales falter - AOL
SHANGHAI, June 5 (Reuters) - China's major solar panel manufacturers are ramping up higher-margin battery exports to boost revenue as growth in photovoltaic (PV) sales slows, betting on rising global ...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The latest installment of a story that just gets grimmer and grimmer. If you thought such appointments ended with the Tories, you'll be sorely disappointed. www.ft.com/content/747e...
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Top health official had close ties with Palantir partner at time of NHS contract
Scrutiny of Samantha Jones, permanent secretary at the Department of Health, comes amid pressure for ministers to use break clause in key contract
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Tabby🦇 @findmeinthecreek.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I found a wildflower seed packet in a parking lot a few weeks back. It had been run over, but the seeds were ok. Planted them 3 days ago and they're already coming up!
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