*Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.* #MoreWomen #MoreTrees #FreeSafeLegalLocal #IsItFair ♻ & 🩷 = stuff that interests me. Dublin, Ireland.
Listen up please @micheal-martin.bsky.social @simonharrisireland.bsky.social 🔥🌍🔥🌎🔥
Brent ToderianRiding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social
‘Here Strout accommodates herself, the author as sage. No longer self-effacing, she affects to be all-seeing. And what she sees is how little empathy and self-knowledge humans have.’ Blake Morrison reads Elizabeth Strout’s Booker-longlisted 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘞𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘢𝘺. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Blake Morrison · Swimmy Head: Elizabeth Strout’s ‘The Things We Never Say’Strout’s characters live in sociable communities, mostly small coastal towns, where everyone knows everyone else’s...www.lrb.co.uk
Never forget, you can double the number of people in a pedestrian street or people-place in two different ways — by doubling the number of people who come (which is harder), or by doubling the length of time that people stay (easier, but we too often get this wrong). Make streets magnetic places.
Downtown VanWhat makes a good Pedestrian Street? We spoke with @brenttoderian.bsky.social, city expert and former Chief Planner of Vancouver to get some insight 🤔 www.instagram.com/p/DbMWaSCBwbq/
⛓️ Fossil fuels are not a choice. They are a trap. Every delay to climate action keeps people trapped in expensive imports and volatile prices. The ETS2 will help people break free from this toxic cycle. It must be defended, not delayed or weakened. ✍️ Sign our petition: life-effect.org/petition/
Remember this every time someone ridiculously claims that we “can’t afford to address #ClimateChange.” We can’t afford to NOT address it. #ClimateCrisis
Pr Carlos Moreno - IAE Paris1 Sorbonne UniversityIn south-western France, the largest forced displacement of people since the Second World War; thousands of hectares ravaged by flames; fire storms (pyrocumulonimbus clouds); the fire closing of Bordeaux; a tragedy that has been looming for years due to inaction in the face of the climate threat 😱
1/ Great reporting in The Times on the emerging momentum behind support for compulsory voting, which @ippr.org called for a couple of weeks ago: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Compulsory voting on the table as Burnham ponders electoral reformProposals seen by the prime minister’s advisers suggest a £10 fine for those who do not cast a ballot, with a ‘none of the above’ option to be includedwww.thetimes.com
on the bright side, it's kind of awesome that so many people are talking about THE ODYSSEY, the translation the movie is based on, the translator's own thoughts in the LRB, and what a big, ambitious film can mean in a market oversaturated with movies about superheroes and nostalgia for old titles
Wildfires are raging across France and Spain, engulfing green spaces, threatening homes and forcing evacuations. This isn’t a faraway crisis. It's already happening on our doorstep. The climate emergency is here. And the need for action has never been clearer.
London faces 'exceptional' threat of wildfires this weekThe capital faces a ‘perfect storm’ of rising temperatures, parched land and lower humiditywww.standard.co.uk
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Politics in France has rarely been more divisive, but presidential candidates of various political persuasions have finally found something they agree on: The new movie about Charles de Gaulle is a masterpiece.
French politicians can’t get enough of ‘De Gaulle’The five-hour-long movie captures the zeitgeist of French politics ahead of next year’s presidential election.www.politico.eu
