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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 04/02/2025

"It would take an awful lot of fried fish and chips..." Natalie Bennett challenges the Government on its claim that airport expansion can fit within legal climate commitments thanks to so-called 'sustainable aviation fuel'.

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Extinction Rebellion UK @xrebellionuk.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Brilliant action highlighting the injustice of private jets and the billionaire class The mega rich burnt through their fair share of carbon in just the first 10 days of 2025, and yet it’s the normal people suffering most by climate breakdown

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CILIP @cilip.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The Librarians: Chilling new documentary at the Sundance film festival examines the phenomenon of book banning in US schools - ‘Civil rights fight of our time’. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...

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‘Civil rights fight of our time’: new film explores the battle over US libraries

A Sarah Jessica Parker-produced documentary on the brave librarians fighting a wave of rightwing book bans has sparked conversation at Sundance

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Rachel Bramley @rbramley.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Another busy @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social Brighton stall today! 💚 Sign the petition to reduce plastic production - we need a Global Plastics Treaty now!! ✊ #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #Brighton action.greenpeace.org.uk/global-plast....

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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

After @mongabay.bsky.social aired a whistleblower acct exposing false sustainability claims by the world’s largest biomass energy wood pellet maker, The Netherlands stopped subsidizing such biomass operations, the co's stock tanked, & its CEO was replaced Latest update on our impactful #journalism:

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Our investigation exposed biomass giant Enviva’s greenwashing in 2022—here’s the latest in 2025

In early December 2022, Mongabay published an exclusive whistleblower’s account exposing false claims by Enviva, the world’s largest maker of wood pellets burned for energy. The company has touted its...

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Keir Starmer responds to Kemi Badenoch attacks that he’s a “lawyer, not a leader”. PM says: “She’s not a lawyer, she’s not a leader, if she keeps going like this, she’s going to be the next lettuce”. #PMQs 🥬

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Alf Dubs @alfdubs.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

We never imagined that 80 years after the liberation of #Auschwitz we would see such appalling levels of antisemitism and Islamophobia, and a resurgence of the far right, in Europe. #HolocaustMemorialDay

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Rachel Bramley @rbramley.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Brilliant @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social Brighton stall today! 💚 Sign the petition to reduce plastic production - we need a Global Plastics Treaty now!! 💪 #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #Brighton action.greenpeace.org.uk/global-plast...

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Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Am going to be using "sparkling local government" from now on.

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

#Brexit robbed our young people of the exciting opportunity, enjoyed by many before them, to work, study and live in Europe. I've co-sponsored this Bill and will keep calling for a scheme that offers young people across the UK and EU this enriching experience.

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Jamie Klingler @jamieklingler.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

My latest for @theneweuropean.bsky.social about @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social and her tireless fight to protect women. app.theneweuropean.co.uk/story/126856...

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SAS in Brighton @sasinbrighton.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

The #stopdumpingonourreef demo had spectacular weather & a super turnout with Sussex Underwater & @sussexwildlife.bsky.social Coverage from BBC South East Today at 6:30pm. It’s time to move Brighton Marina’s dump zone away from our #MarineConservationZone.

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Rachel Bramley @rbramley.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Always nice to get a bit of coverage on the Beeb 🙌 BBC News - Schools not joining academy trust after protest www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Hove schools not joining academy trust after protest

Hove Learning Federation says it will continue to work with Brighton & Hove City Council.

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Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

New: Privatisation of two primary schools called off in face of community campaign www.educationuncovered.co.uk/news/173111/... Story on the decision yesterday by Hove Learning Federation to shelve academisation under Aurora Academies Trust.

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I would simply say that one of the changes to tackle it should be to bar anyone who's been convicted of VAWG from serving as an MP, since the party whose MPs are 1/5 convicted domestic abuser aren't there to protest

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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

🚨 Good News! All charges have been DROPPED against the 34 Greenpeace activists who SHUTDOWN Unilever’s headquarters last September. This is GREAT news - but the right to protest is still in danger. 🧵

Charges against all 34 Dove activists have been dropped

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Rachel Bramley @rbramley.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

And happy new year 2025 to you, random stone painter, and all who start back at work today. #brighton

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Wildlife and Countryside Link @wclnews.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

It’s time to get #WilderbyDesign🏡 As Government prepares its Planning Bill, we’re calling for: Greenprint for nature with new protected sites🏞️ Wilder neighbourhoods - swift bricks, bat boxes & more🦇 A national nature map 🗺️ Read more👇 wcl.org.uk/wilder-by-de...

Two dormice nestled in a tree. Text reads "Wilder By Design"

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Rachel Bramley @rbramley.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Foam party was not as much fun as Bertie thought it would be #GavinAndStacey #cracking #dogsofbluesky #brighton

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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I mean North Sea Oil is in decline… whilst green energy is the cheapest it’s ever been, and offshore wind farms emerge as one of the most immediate and substantial ways for the UK to gain both economic and energy security. …but what do I know I’m just a social media manager, not the next POTUS.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

“If we’re to have hope of flourishing during the coming #climate breakdown, we need a movement that invites people to share in its determination to act …channelling our energy into practical solutions for adapting to the climate crisis that’s already here” - important from @rupertread.bsky.social 👇

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At Extinction Rebellion, we aimed for UK net zero in 2025. That won't happen – so here’s what to do instead | Rupert Read

With the climate crisis hitting Britain, we must build resilience at a local level by rewilding, saving water and fighting floods, says Rupert Read of Climate Majority

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come. ‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair. Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

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Rachel Bramley @rbramley.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Yess! Glad to see these guys on here!!

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Rachel Bramley @rbramley.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Sir Bertie was overlooked in the list this year but got several honourable mentions on the beach. #dogsofbluesky #honours

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Rachel Bramley @rbramley.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Great! And for next Christmas we'd like universal #EV charging - no apps, RFID cards or downloads required. Just tap & pay for 50kw charging please! I promise I'll be good. 😇

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

🧵The L3 Harris weapons factory is trying to overturn a democratic decision to reject its proposal for a permanent expansion in Brighton. I’ve written to the Planning Inspectorate, expressing my view that Brighton and Hove City Council's rejection must be upheld.

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Climate Majority Project @climatemajority.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

"The global economy is losing up to $25tn a year because sectors such as agriculture, energy and fishing fail to account for how their actions fuel interconnected crises in nature, climate and human health." www.ft.com/content/fed3...

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Biodiversity hit to economies estimated at up to $25tn a year in landmark report

Equivalent of one-quarter of global GDP lost annually, report by 165 scientists finds

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Rachel Bramley @rbramley.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Consultation closes today on academisation proposal at West Hove! Bertie was at the protest last Friday - he thinks the Board must be barking mad. 🐾 www.theargus.co.uk/news/2478885... #dogsofbluesky #dogsatprotests

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Rachel Bramley @rbramley.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

This month's campaign - shoddy process, parents up in arms, staff distraught, local MP & councillors against it but 'consultation' ends today. 🤞💪🤞 BBC News - Hove schools urged to rethink academy plan www.bbc.com/news/article...

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West Hove Infants and Hove Juniors urged to rethink academy plan

West Hove Infant School and Hove Juniors are considering joining the Aurora Multi Academy Trust.

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Rachel Bramley @rbramley.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Good, occasionally poor. Wind speed a 6 on the Bertometer today 🐾 #dogsofbluesky #shippingforecast

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

NEW: There is power in a union. New newsletter with @billybragg.bsky.social's history lessons to the Guardian's management. And why they're are our best hope of fighting back against the Silicon Valley edgelords who now control our world open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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There is power in a union

And other Billy Bragg songs we sang on the Guardian's picket line

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

We’re expanding out for day 13 of my hunting crimes (b)advent with @huntsabs.bsky.social – it’s the horrific Quantock Staghounds . We must close the loopholes and exemptions in the Hunting Act - we need a #RealBanNow

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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

**NEW:** Food insecurity is rising in the UK - impacting poorer, younger and disabled people the most. Here are 4 things threatening our food security 🧵

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Elsie Yorks 🐈‍⬛ @elsieyork.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

@katebevan.com Betteridge’s Law in a journal article and abstract?

RESEARCH ARTICLE | JANUARY 17,
2018
Do Large (Magnitude ≥ 8)
Global Earthquakes Occur on Preferred Days of the Calendar Year or Lunar Cycle? •
Susan E. Hough
Seismological Research Letters
Abstract: No.

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 12/12/2024

“Our findings suggest that a range of food products exist that when replacing meat and dairy in current diets would have multiple benefits, including reductions in nutritional imbalances, dietary risks and mortality, environmental resource use and pollution” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Y’ALL! Scientists at Schmidt Ocean just captured this rare video of an open-ocean squid caring for its young. That pearl-packed black bag between its tentacles is a brood pouch, each pearl is a developing baby squid (you can see a few hatch out at the end). Nature is so cool. 🧵 🪼🦑🐙🌿🧪

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Rachel Bramley @rbramley.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

If it's 5 years for attending a Zoom call, then this has to be at least 10? Luckily the reg plates are clearly visible - evidence for the inevitable public nuisance trial (not).

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Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

British police arrest environmental protesters at 3 times the average global rate. Having been arrested a couple of times for taking part in peaceful protests, I find this sad but not surprising news from @damiengayle.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Britain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds

Research shows UK police arrest environmental and climate protesters at three times the average global rate

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Rachel Bramley @rbramley.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Can librarians reclaim this?! 🎶 I'm finding books students stashed in a bush 🎶

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Rachel Bramley @rbramley.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Got a bit excited in a Teams meeting today, when this broke 💪💚 Was definitely cheering without muting, but why not?! @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social

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Deborah Meaden @deborahmeaden.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Renewables will never catch on ( sarcasm emoji) 😂😂😂

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Unearthed @unearthednews.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

“Our government cannot continue to permit this kind of exploitation." - Green Party MP @sianberry.bsky.social responds to Unearthed's new investigation, which found that companies exported 8,500 tonnes of banned pesticides from the UK last year unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/12/08/u...

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‘Ultimate hypocrisy’: UK exported 8,500 tonnes of banned pesticides last year

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Rachel Bramley @rbramley.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Bertie's so happy the rain has finally gone! Not exactly blue skies above - but his first appearance on #dogsofbluesky 🐾

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