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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 1h

RE the 500k new trees in England. Forestry Journal: “The scheme is designed to support the planting of trees outside traditional woodlands, bringing more canopy cover into towns, cities and rural communities“ So the Guardian use a photo of woodland creation. 👏 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Half a million trees to be planted in England in three years, says government

Exclusive: Environment secretary Angela Eagle to make pledge as part of efforts to protect against extreme weather

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 1h

Aha, Forestry Journal had the details. “The scheme is designed to support the planting of trees outside traditional woodlands, bringing more canopy cover into towns, cities and rural communities while contributing towards England's tree planting and nature recovery targets.” Not what I do sadly.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 4h

Thanks. Need to look for more data as this is vague. We’re meant to be creating more woodland than that and not hitting targets already so saying bigger numbers doesn’t change much if it’s not making it through to those who need it.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 22h

They both just ripped off the average bloke from Somerset slightly differently.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 29/09/2026

I got held up doing charity work yesterday and this morning so after long consideration I’m not gonna overnight cycle to an API Conf London tomorrow, I’m gonna take the train. Just means I get to be more prepared to document this one because there are a LOT of AI boosters who’ll need fact checking

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 29/09/2026

A very secure apartment with a taller than usual hangar perhaps.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 28/09/2026

When you get hit by a two tonne car at 30-80mph the light 200w flexi panel and plywood will be 0% of the cause of death. Other than vehicular manslaughter cyclists really don’t just fall over all that much.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 28/09/2026

That’s definitely the standard way to go about it, but maybe he commutes further than you do and doesn’t have a charger at work. He also might have been bikepacking I couldn’t tell.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 28/09/2026

Meh, I don’t know if we need to immediately try and figure out the 1% of the time something is a problem right off the bat. Driving cars is dangerous in high winds too and people aren’t typing “but what about” any time somebody mentions a car.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 28/09/2026

I might go stand around there same time tomorrow and try to get some contact details yeah.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 28/09/2026

Definitely would not fly. Worst case scenario the cheap panels partially or fully disconnect it there’s no chance it would lift the bike at all.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 28/09/2026

I don’t think it’ll be any more of an issue than any recumbent bike, which are considerably more stable than any other type of bike as your weight is lower to the ground. The panaels aren’t that big and are thin, so worst case you get a forward push (yay) or a headwind issue (battery kicks in).

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Gus Ferguson @gustapher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This one vehicle would destroy the Mad Max franchise

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 28/09/2026

Just saw someone zoom by on a Solar powered recumbent e-bike, clearly homemade. I barely got a photo before he was away. Just commuting to work in Chippenham I think? Legend.

Industrial estate with a small grainy cyclist turning the corner, laying back on a recumbent bike, and two flexible solar panels making a roof over the top.

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Cllr Emma Garnett @greenpartyemma.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And yet @libdems.org.uk want to keep us hooked on climate-wrecking, geopolitical-nightmare fuel by cutting fuel duty by 10p. It's hard to imagine a more environmentally and economically illiterate policy. Read the room.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 26/09/2026

When I post something like this it warms my heart that you folks dig deep and throw us £150 right off the bat but there is still a £14,850 hole that needs to be filled and that means a few more of you legends need to get involved.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 26/09/2026

Thank you again!! We live and die by contributions and I really cannot thank you enough. I just want to keep doing this and the idea of closing up shop and selling all our land to god knows who is genuinely worse than anything I can imagine.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 26/09/2026

Thank you Jo! Genuinely concerned but we can absolutely do this with your help.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 26/09/2026

If you want to help us not go bankrupt this winter as we restock ~10,000 historic drought failures in Wales, I would absolutely love it because we genuinely could fold without getting ~£15,000 rapidly and this is not how we go out. protect.earth/act-now/gene...

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Donate | Protect Earth

Creating and restoring ecosystems in the UK

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 26/09/2026

What am I doing on Twitter? Reminding everyone there exactly what they are doing and getting the charity more views. I’ll crawl through fucking glass to keep us afloat.

I know this website is mostly about spreading fascist ideology but I thought I'd break that up in your feed with a video of one of the beavers who live at Warleigh Nature Reserve washing its tummy.

Video of our beaver washing

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 26/09/2026

This is exactly how you should run a charity.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 26/09/2026

Coming over here, fixing our waterways, cleaning up pollution our taxpayer dollars went to corporations to do but they fucked it off to Gibraltar instead! The absolute state of it.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 26/09/2026

A lot of these beavers are from undisclosed European countries so it’s absolutely anyone’s guess!

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 26/09/2026

Natural England posted this map of beaver territory and sightings. Guess where Warleigh nature reserve is. Ok fine I’ll tell. It’s bang in the middle off the F on the left, which I assume stands for F**k load of Beavers.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 26/09/2026

Thinking about the scolding earlier made me wonder. Mature trees cut down for various woodland restoration reasons: 70. Coppiced stools: 100 Rhododendrons murdered: 500 Trees planted: ~170,000 (80% survival rate). No qualms.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 26/09/2026

I don’t know how your weekend is going so far but I know this clip will make it considerably better.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 26/09/2026

Seeing as I’ve already been scolded for “chopping down trees”, I’ll share the obligatory intro to coppicing, written by our ecologist writer. TLDR we don’t have herds of roaming bison so manual disturbance is critical to build structure specialist species rely on. protect.earth/articles/int...

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Introduction to Coppicing: Benefits for Biodiversity and Woodland Restoration

Learn what coppicing is, why it matters for biodiversity, and how traditional woodland management at Warleigh Nature Reserve helps restore habitats, support ...

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 26/09/2026

Today I had a brilliant group of volunteers join me at Warleigh Nature Reserve, some returning some new. One was a landowner we planted with last winter, come to return the favour. We coppiced a whole lot of sycamore (way too much of it) in the ancient woodland, making dead hedges to keep deer out.

Two young women getting stuck in with an axe.

A gentleman with a pair of loppers trimming branches off a small felled sycamore tree.

General activity in the coppice area with lots of “binders” cut for use in hedgelaying

A thinned out woodland with lots of useful wood products cut. More light coming in now, with a very dark woodland in the background for work next year.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 26/09/2026

“But Ai cOulD RuN on rEnEwAblE eNerGy.”

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 26/09/2026

I don’t consider it to be a euphemism because I don’t consider woodland restoration to be a bad thing. Chopping down is a bit colloquial as it comes from axe felling, and yesterday’s thinning work was done with electric chainsaws. Today’s coppicing was using axes, but I’d just that coppicing.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 26/09/2026

Why do you think “chopping down” a tree is a bad thing? What do you think coppicing means? What species do you think I removed from the ancient woodland? This video should help. See if you recognise a name. youtu.be/AWgtMwWCCBA?...

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Ancient Woodland Restoration - A story of life and light.

YouTube video by Wood For The Trees

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 25/09/2026

Today I dropped eight trees and I didn’t die. Five of them were a coppice. They’ll be back. Three of them were willow that had to go for a new boardwalk BANES wanted through our land. We propagated all the cuttings and used the chunks for leaky dams. They’ll probably regrow. Tricky but good.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 25/09/2026

Fine I’ll sneak out this one beaver video of matey just milling around, but if you want to see matey boy washing their belly and being cute as hell you gotta follow @protect.earth first.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 25/09/2026

Don’t want Palantir in the NHS or anywhere else in the UK? Keep electing @greenparty.org.uk everywhere you can and we’ll keep getting rid of it. Labour have been dumping taxpayer money in and they’re bessie Epstein mates so no change there. www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

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Manchester Greens block Palantir from NHS as Labour-run Camden complicity is exposed

Manchester Green Party councillors have claimed a momentous victory against notorious US 'End Times Fascist' tech firm Palantir

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 23/09/2026

Getting @protect.earth from 370 to 415 is great but you’re gonna have to do better if you want to see my beaver! 🦫

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 23/09/2026

They can literally only do robber baron shit and eventually you run out of other people’s money.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 23/09/2026

Americas conservatives never wanted a “free market”, that was always just identity politics. They actually love picking winners and losers it just has to be whatever they’re heavily invested in (usually oil and gas).

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 22/09/2026

Don’t act like you don’t want to see my beaver. 🦫 Come on. It’s massive and I’ll show you, but I do need 110 more followers before I’m ready to get it out. 🥵

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 22/09/2026

Far-right fascists now doing piracy and attempted murder whilst @andyburnham.bsky.social still has not found the on button for anything other than announcing charity runs.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 22/09/2026

Amazing to see the UK government failing to pick low hanging fruit with the “I would love to farm regeneratively but please help me do that at all” crowd. Fucked it.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 22/09/2026

I’ve got beaver-cam footage to show you but only if you get @protect.earth up to 500 followers. We’ve been blocked from BlueSky for months, but we’re back now. Get us that count and I’ll show you a big fat furry river baby. 🫡

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 22/09/2026

The reason people hate Palantir isn’t because we don’t understand AI/technology, it’s because we do in fact understand the technology and it’s dogshit. Also they’re all Epstein freaks and want to destroy the world to rule the ashes, their shit software is just how they get there.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“The rise of anti-migration neofascism is more threatening than anything I’ve seen in my lifetime.” Good piece by @pollytoynbee.bsky.social challenging Burnham to confront the rise of the far right in his conference speech next week. Features @hopenothate.org.uk www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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There is a racism and cohesion crisis in Britain, and someone needs to lead us out of it. His name is Andy Burnham | Polly Toynbee

I want him to start the fightback next week against extremists who peddle hate and those who despise this country. That would be true patriotism, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 22/09/2026

If youre still working at these companies and you feel bad about the destructive impact your massive salaried job is having on society, I can absolve you of your sins if you donate a few grand to @protect.earth. We don’t even have enough money to buy trees this winter. www.ft.com/content/6087...

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AI staff complain of mental toll over fears of threat to society

Top researchers at Aisi, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind report burnout and stress over developing powerful AI

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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

🧵/1️⃣ Is the UK's next climate target actually legal? On Wednesday Parliament votes on the Seventh Carbon Budget. Our evidence shows the Govt hasn't met its legal & scientific duties. Help us challenge it in court. #CarbonReckoning www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-... @chrisgpackham.bsky.social

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Carbon Reckoning: Holding the Government to Its Own Climate Law

Carbon Reckoning are a science based group, committed to the strongest possible action to require the UK sets climate policy commensurate with the scale of the crisis we face.

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