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Laura Moodie MSP @electlauramoodie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The proposals at Chapelcross will make it the largest data centre in the world. At its peak, it could be consuming the same amount of electricity as more than 2 million homes. Chapelcross cannot be built. The Government and Dumfries & Galloway Council must reject it. @scottishgreens.org
A graphic that reads “reject chapelcross data centre” “the world’s largest data centre must not be built in Scotland”. Below the text is the Scottish greens logo.
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Vic Palmer @vicpd.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Palantir’s technologies are used by the powerful to attack the powerless. This company should not be involved in our public services. Sign this petition if you agree act.globaljustice.org.uk/get-palantir...
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Get Palantir out of UK public services
The UK has handed Palantir dozens of public contracts, including with the NHS, even as the dangers of empowering a class of big tech oligarchs become clear. Palantir has supplied military technology t...
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 27/02/2026
🚨 NEW POLL! Another new poll has the Scottish Greens overtaking both Labour and the Tories in May's Scottish Parliament election. This May there's hope. We can build a fairer, greener, independent Scotland. 💚 Be the change you want to see 👇 www.greens.scot/join
New poll. Scottish Greens to overtake Labour and Tories in Scotland. Labour: 15 MSPs. Greens: 16 MSPs. Tory: 9 MSPs. On May 7th vote Scottish Greens.
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Cara McKee @caramckeegreens.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Come join us leafletting and knocking on doors in Irvine (Scottish Young Greens event, just for under 30s), Paisley, and Clarkston this weekend. And if you're not a Scottish Green yet, come join us 💚 greens.scot/join @scottishgreens.org @ayrshiregreens.bsky.social
Cara McKee and Ross Greer MSP - Candidates for Scottish Green Party are smiling against a leafy background. The Scottish Greens logo is in the top right.
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Help elect Scottish Greens in West Scotland.
Irvine: Scottish Young Greens meet at Irvine Train Station at 5pm on Friday 27th for leafletting
Paisley: Meet at Dalskeith Road at 2pm on Saturday 28th for doorknocking
Clarkston: Meet at Netherlee Primary at 2pm on Sunday 1st for doorknocking.
Let's get two Green MSPs in West Scotland
Promoted by Pete Morrison, Scottish Green Party, 19b Graham Street, Edinburgh, EH6 5QN
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
So, any other news yesterday? Anything important?
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 24/02/2026
We've saved Loch Lomond! For the last decade, we have fought to save Loch Lomond from Flamingo Land's destructive mega-resort plan. Today, their plans have been rejected! #SaveLochLomond 🚫🦩
We've saved Loch Lomond. Flamingo Land Rejected! Scottish Greens.
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 27/01/2026
Just 100 days to go. It's time to choose hope. #VoteScottishGreens
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Vic Palmer @vicpd.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
@scottishgreens.org today I have voted to select our candidates for the 2026 Holyrood elections. We have several amazing women standing for our West of Scotland list and I am proud to have been able to #rankwomenfirst
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Cllr Claire Miller (she/her) @cllrcmiller.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I’ve voted and I stuck to my pledge to #RankWomenFirst 🗳️
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Joanne Gordon @joannegord.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Members: if you haven’t watched the hustings yet, it’s well worth your time. Remember to #rankwomenfirst North East 1. Maggie Chapman 2. ⁠Kathryn Vincent 3. ⁠Charlotte Horne Central & Lothians West 1. Gillian MacKay 2. ⁠Rachel Kidd 3. ⁠Claire Williams
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Iris Duane MSP 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @irisduane.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Absolutely honoured to be included in this list 💚 The amount of support I’ve received from both fellow candidates and party members in this campaign period has been monumental, I hope I can continue to win your trust! With voting open tomorrow, remember to #RankWomenFirst and be the change 💚
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Joanne Gordon @joannegord.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Huge thanks to everyone who’s pledged to #RankWomenFirst 💚 Your support is helping shift the culture toward real gender equity in leadership and representation.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I've just sent a letter to Israel demanding it comply with international law and not attack the #Madleen, carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza. It took me less than a minute. Will you please do the same and then pass on the word?
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
To be clear: Trump is dispatching the troops in response to protests *the Los Angeles Police Department* has described as peaceful
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Q Manivannan MSP @qmanivannan.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
What do we mean by the word “local”? What’s local in Shandon is not what’s local in Tollcross or Merchiston, in an area as diverse as Fountainbridge-Craiglockhart. On 26th June, vote for a new voice in city chambers, drawn from a decade’s career in community building. #VoteQ1 #VoteScottishGreens
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
One attorney, Lizbeth Mateo, said ICE officials slated several of her clients for check-ins at the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in downtown L.A. but when they showed up on Tuesday, they were detained and immediately escorted to the basement.

Mateo said a couple and their two children, one of whom is a U.S. citizen, spent the night in a room with no beds and limited access to food and water. Mateo said the father had previously been issued a stay of removal, barring him from deportation but he and his family were detained anyway. His wife was released Wednesday evening along with their children since she needed medical attention due to a high-risk pregnancy. He was still being detained early Friday, Mateo said.
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The Madleen, a UK-flagged aid ship heading to break the illegal siege on Gaza, has been threatened by the Israeli government. Greta Thunberg, Rima Hassan MEP & others are on board. The UK must act: defend the ship & crew or remain complicit in Israel’s blockade, aggression & genocide.
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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
December #Temperature highlights from the #CopernicusClimate Change Service (#C3S). Last month 🌡 was the 2nd-warmest December globally, after '23, 0.76°C above the 1991-2020 average 🌡 1.69°C above the pre-industrial level For more 👉 bit.ly/4jcnIGi
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Friends of the Earth Europe @foeeurope.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
⚖️ Food safety, public health, workers’ rights, animal welfare and environmental protections are the backbone of a fair and resilient society. 270+ orgs urge @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to uphold #RulesToProtect people, nature & democracy 👉 friendsoftheearth.eu/publication/...
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 07/01/2025
"It’s no surprise that many in the environmental movement have been moving away from X. For some, deleting accounts is a political statement. For others, reducing engagement is more practical." Read more by @catearly.bsky.social with thoughts from @markavery.bsky.social & yours truly:
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It's time for eXit
Environmental activists are getting ready to abandon X on Monday, 20 January 2025. So what is next?
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Happening now: Amazon Labor Union workers and supporters are rallying outside JFK8 on Staten Island ahead of a midnight strike due to Amazon refusing to come to the bargaining table following a Dec. 15 deadline. #STRIKEMAS
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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Please explain to this non-American how executing women is “Pro-Life”?
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Iain Soutar @isoutar.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Great to see the arrival of Climate Outreach 👇👇👇
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Hubbard Brook Research Foundation @hubbardbrook.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Climate grief. Knowing you're doing all you can and it will probably never be enough. A lot for scientists to carry. Dartmouth-based Hubbard Brooker Caitlin Hicks Pries co-convened an #AGU24 session which provided space to share grief and tools to help cope with those feelings: bit.ly/AGU24_SY44A
A meeting room with people watching a presentation.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Life imitating art warning about death. And it’s going to get worse every year. Still think #ClimateAction is “too expensive?” #ClimateCrisis
2014 art piece with “politicians discussing global warming” while almost entirely under water, and 2021 similar looking photo of people struggling to stay above water during flooding.
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
If you are expanding beef production & aiming to count climate benefits from increasing soil carbon (which requires careful measurement & causal link to management practices) you need to also count up the methane & other GHGs too Breathtaking that this is marketed as “net zero” or “carbon neutral”
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Turning Kazakhstan Into a Beef-Producing Machine, the American Way - Inside Climate News
The vast central Asian country has millions of acres of pastureland. Can it produce steaks and burgers that offset emissions—and earn carbon credits for them?
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NPR @npr.org · 13/12/2024
In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.
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How D.C. tackled a child care crunch through a tax hike on the rich
In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Most of the overfishing off the west coast of Africa is being perpetrated by massive *European* (often Irish) boats, drastically impacting ⚫ Marine ecosystems ⚫ Local small boat fishermen ⚫ Local people's food supply ⚫ Land ecosystems, as people turn to wild bushmeat to supply their protein needs
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
NEW: A safe biking group is leading a court challenge against new legislation that gives the Ontario govt sweeping control over installation & removal of municipal bike lanes, arguing the law deprives people on bikes of their Charter rights to life and security. Well done @cycletoronto.bsky.social
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Court challenge launched against newly passed Ontario legislation to remove bike lanes | CBC News
A cycling advocacy group is leading a court challenge against recently passed legislation that gives the Ontario government sweeping control over the installation and removal of municipal bike lanes, ...
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BEUC - The Consumer Voice @beuc.eu · 09/12/2024
It's not everyday that BEUC and COPA-COGECA get together: the EU-Mercosur deal fails both consumers and farmers on sustainability goals. It's time to apply the same rules to imported food as what is produced in the EU.
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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Hell yeah!! 👍🙌👏
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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Make your voice heard ✍️ There are two consultations this week on uniting community services in Dundee and moving them to one campus. More information is in the link in the replies.
An image of a mock-up 'East End Campus' in Dundee, with large light sandstone buildings, some trees sparsely scattered, and people walking through a central paved walkway. A graphic banner above is yellow, and in black text reads "Public Consultation: East End Community Campus"
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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Winter is typically the most polluted season of the year. Increased fuel combustion for heating and transport, along with cold, dense air, can trigger spikes in many air pollutants. To find out more, read our article: atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cool-dry-con...
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Dr Juliette Brown 🍉 @drjuliettebrown.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Dr Benn was imprisoned for doing what these 7 have done, at the behest of an oil company @valeroenergy.bsky.social and suspended from work by our medical regulator amp.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Doctors condemn suspension of retired GP over UK climate protests | Environmental activism | The Guardian
Dr Sarah Benn, from Birmingham, taken off medical register for five months after attending Just Stop Oil demonstration
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
A good reminder of what is possible. China had a goal of 1,200GW of renewable electricity generation capacity by 2030. They will pass that this year and are expected to hit 3,000 GW by 2030.
IEA chart showing with forecasts for renewable electricity capacity by country with China dominating the global market with over 1000 GW at the end of 2023.
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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I think this action at the ICJ is misguided. Even the strongest possible opinion will barely move the needle on action. Pacific countries should be at the General Assembly negotiating coal and deforestation treaties. Every bad strategy now has a planetary cost.
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Handful of countries responsible for climate crisis, top court told
Vanuatu envoy makes claim as hearing gets under way at international court of justice in The Hague
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Antje Wiener @antjewiener.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d... UK - not Trumpistan 2025: 👇🏻👇🏻 “More than 600 Brazilians, including 109 children, have been secretly removed from the UK – on the three largest Home Office deportation charter flights in history – since the Labour government came to power, the Observer has learned.”
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More than 600 Brazilians deported by Home Office on three secret flights
Record number of deportees includes children who may have spent most of their lives in the UK
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Jana Bacevic 🌲🌳✊🏴 @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I guess one part of introductions is mentioning that, in addition to academic papers, essays, and a book (so far) I also (occasionally) blog (too lazy to Substack). Re-sharing this one from 2022, on the occasion of the world slipping even deeper into climate collapse: janabacevic.net/2022/07/20/w...
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When it ends
In the summer of 2018, I came back to Cambridge from one of my travels to a yellowed, dusty patch of land. The grass – the only thing that grew in the too shady back garden of the house me and my p…
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
1. The implicit deal behind Starmerism was this: you might not like what he stands for (or fails to stand for), but at least he knows how to win elections. If you want the Tories out, he’s your only hope. But now? It’s as if he’s going out of his way to lose in 2029. 🧵
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Claire Niedzwiedz @drcenz.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
We need to talk about plastic: five everyday items choking the planet www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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We need to talk about plastic: five everyday items choking the planet
It is one of the world’s most dangerous materials, and global leaders are meeting in South Korea to thrash out a treaty to curb its effects
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Mags Hall @magssgp.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Yesterday the Housing Bill first introduced by @patrickharvie.bsky.social passed stage 1, an important step on the path to rent controls. But the SNP already plan to water it down, by fixing rent controls at ABOVE inflation. Help us #SaveRentControls greens.scot/rentcontrols
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Save rent controls
Save rent controls -
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Mags Hall @magssgp.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Excellent news on ScotGov following @scottishgreens.org calls & shelving road building plans. Their own study shows communities in NE will benefit more from new public transport, cycle paths, & safety measures than dualling of the A96, & at 1/5th of the price www.heraldscotland.com/news/2475639...
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Scottish Greens: 'Ministers must scrap plans to dual the A96'
The Scottish Greens have urged ministers to scrap plans to dual the A96 and focus on making public transport cheaper.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I am deeply honoured to be speaking alongside Prof. Qumsiyeh (head of Palestine Inst. for Biodiversity) + Lelo Mary Thebe (Zimbabwean writer), discussing climate justice at what promises to be a highly thought-provoking @foeireland.bsky.social event tomorrow. www.friendsoftheearth.ie/events/from-...
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From Despair into Action for Climate Justice
A panel discussion, live music and rich conversation inspired by our Learning Hub book ‘Not Too Late’. Join us at the Teachers Club 7PM 29th November.
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Opportunity Green @opportunitygreen.org · 27/11/2024
“The UK's 2035 NDC does not include emissions from international aviation and shipping in its headline target. At COP29, I supported the call for shipping and aviation to be included to tackle marine pollution and ensure industries are better regulated.” Well said @pippaheylings.bsky.social 👏
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“I left COP29 with hope in my heart”
Pippa Heylings reports from the global climate summit in Baku
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Juliet Phillips @julietphillips.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Thank you @desmog.bsky.social for exposing this - @reformparty-uk.bsky.social Richard Tice's campaign against net zero & clean energy is completely misaligned with the interests of his Lincolnshire constituents, who are among the most at risk of flooding. www.desmog.com/2024/11/27/c...
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Climate Denier Richard Tice’s Seat is Second Most Exposed to Global Warming, Says Insurance Giant
The constituency held by Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice, who campaigns against policies to tackle climate change, has been ranked as the second most at risk from the impacts of global warming. B...
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Only 1 in 5 Welsh rainforests are in good condition and NONE are in very good condition, due to invasive species + overgrazing. Sound familiar? What is it with people, and treating these precious surviving ecosystem fragments as worthless expendables? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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Welsh government urged to safeguard Celtic rainforests
Conservation groups’ report warns remaining temperate rainforest sites and ‘vital habitats’ are in poor condition
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The graphic reality of what the current economic system (capitalism) is doing to our living planet, day in, day out: putting unimaginably diverse ecosystems en masse through a grinder to produce profits, mostly for a few. Caring about nature, but ignoring this, makes zero sense.
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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
The UK phased out coal-fired electricity in 2024 after a decade of declining generation. Gas generation is also on the decline. If you want to meet growing electricity demand, it’s now cheaper to do so with renewables than fossil fuels. 🧪🔌💡 www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/30/1...
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The UK is done with coal. How’s the rest of the world doing?
The country’s final coal-fired power plant just shut down, marking a major milestone for the notoriously polluting fossil fuel.
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