I've been a teacher, a co-operative worker, a lawyer and external affairs director at UK charity Sustrans, and am the former chair of Transition Network, the Centre for Sustainable Energy and Common Cause Foundation.
446/ Jordan yesterday,Egypt today "Iran's widening geography of attacks suggests a regime under mounting pressure rather than one acting from a position of confidence. Expanding the battlespace is a high-risk strategy that Tehran likely knows will invite greater military,economic,& diplomatic costs
🆕 I spoke w/ half a dozen former attorneys at DOJ's environment division, newly renamed as the "energy" division, about the significant changes there under Trump 2.0 - incl. an attorney exodus, involuntary reassignments of section chiefs, the recent name change, & the massive drop in enforcement
Inside Climate NewsTrump officials say enforcing environmental laws is still a priority at DOJ, but former attorneys say enforcement has collapsed.
💵 This was supposed to be “at least $20bn per year” by 2025 in finance for conservation. This is where we’re at now.
Carbon BriefNEW – World falling short on 22 of 23 nature targets for 2030, says draft UN report | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @arunacsekhar.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/D2XVoGo
So, I finally did a TED talk, and it got released today. I seem to have been quite intense, but I'm grateful they left in my Trump joke. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...
Our last, best chance to cool the EarthWe're living through oil wars, wildfire smoke and extreme weather driven by a warming planet. But environmentalist Bill McKibben says one thing is finally going right: the price of clean energy has pl...www.ted.com
this is absolutely excellent and essential, clear, as hopeful as it is urgent, and we should all demand that — to win our votes, and a future for our species — McKibben’s message here becomes core to the platform of every person in, or running for, public office: energy from heaven not from hell
Bill McKibbenSo, I finally did a TED talk, and it got released today. I seem to have been quite intense, but I'm grateful they left in my Trump joke. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...
This is surely curtains for Farage's political career. I don't think there's any coming back from it. I hope not, at any rate. Looks like there could be a strong basis for a criminal case as well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UKExclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her sonwww.theguardian.com
Familiar pattern: "In Missouri, Georgia, Ohio and now Nebraska, Republican men running for high office face significant allegations of domestic violence, stalking, even sexual assault — accusations that once would have derailed any run for office." --NYT 2022
ryan coopersome classic Traditional Patriarchal Values right here. also with Moreno's refusal to call it out, because the whole thing is largely conspiracy to enable the abuse of women, even your own daughter www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...
“2026 is just the beginning,” Professor Rockström added. “It will inevitably get worse. It will get worse and worse and worse to the point where, I’m afraid, we’ll be passing the limits of adaptation.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/w...
Summer of Heat, Fires and Storms Is a Reckoning for Europe on ClimateThe continent is experiencing some of its biggest fires and highest temperatures ever. Residents are fleeing, leaders are struggling to respond and “it will get worse,” one climate expert said.www.nytimes.com
Countries with good governance and environmental rule of law can make a just transition work.
More Countries Are Factoring Fairness Into the Clean Energy Transition - Inside Climate NewsCountries with strong environmental governance and trusted institutions are well positioned to pivot away from fossil fuels, a new United Nations report finds.insideclimatenews.org
"While we think structurally coal will decline over time, [the AI boom] is going to slow down that decline.”
It’s official: Data centers are slowing America’s shift away from coalNew federal data shows that AI demand helped push U.S. power sector emissions up last year.grist.org
Michael Levin, a Tufts biologist with a 40-person lab, has spent his life trying to prove that minds show up in places we’d never think to look.
What Is It Like to Be a Cucumber?Michael Levin, a Tufts biologist with a 40-person lab, has spent his life trying to prove that minds show up in places we’d never think to look.nymag.com
SCOOP: Internal Microsoft records reveal a "mad dash" inside the world's largest software maker as engineers and managers scramble to patch vulnerabilities identified by Anthropic's new AI model, Mythos: www.propublica.org/article/anth...
Anthropic’s New AI Model Can Identify More Software Bugs Than Ever. Microsoft Is Struggling to Fix Them Fast Enough.Anthropic’s Mythos has flagged bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them. Documents reviewed by ProPublica reveal the tech giant's “mad dash” behind the scenes to patch holes before hackers can find and...www.propublica.org
Somos una ciudad de inmigrantes, y eso se nota en nuestra tradición de dar refugio a quien lo necesita. A cada inmigrante neoyorquino que hoy vive con miedo le decimos: este es su hogar y aquí pertenece. Y quien venga a buscarlo tendrá que pasar primero por sus vecinos y por los neoyorquinos.
