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Marcus Grant
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Just starting out in this place.
Editor-in-Chief of Cities & Health journal. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rcah20

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · Nov 21
Heads up, folk!
I have just noticed that my publication 'Shaping Neighbourhoods: For Local Health and Global Sustainability' has 25% discount for Xmas sale thingy [so-called Black Friday]
Very practical, with evidence-base, conceptual tools and **case studies**
www.routledge.com/Shaping-Neig...
Shaping Neighbourhoods: For Local Health and Global Sustainability
Shaping Neighbourhoods is unique in combining all aspects of the spatial planning of neighbourhoods and towns whilst emphasising positive outcomes for people’s health and global sustainability. This n...
www.routledge.com

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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 22h
We’re halfway to our goal in our end-of-year crowdfunding campaign, and we want to ask you to help push us closer. Give to our important campaign here: standtog.org/Crowdfund

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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 1d
We just kicked off the People’s Climate Conference, a series of events on climate change in our Purple Houses across Israel. We heard from former MKs, researchers, and activists about confronting climate change – and how it intersects with the struggle for peace. (1/3)

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d
Hanukkah is about holding onto light during the darkest part of the year.

Thank you @ifnotnowmovement.org for inviting me to celebrate resilience, community, and hope with you all. Wishing everyone a safe and joyful last night of Hanukkah.

May it be a lighter year ahead.

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 6d
I believe film can spark change 🎬

I am beginning to track protest cinema, radical storytelling & movies that move people to action. If you’re into film, follow me on Letterboxd for reviews & lists:
Robin Boardman’s profile
Robin uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 389 films watched. Favorites: Selma (2014), The Best of Enemies (2019), Blade Runner (1982), Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984). Bio: Hi…
letterboxd.com

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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 6d
To everyone flying today for a weekend away: we hope you have an amazing holiday. *And* we really hope that next time you'll consider different travel options that are fairer & kinder to the world. (The two sentiments aren't mutually exclusive!)

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Evelyne de Leeuw @evdle.bsky.social · 6d
Read our new, enhanced, more inclusive and planetary, scoping of the One Health environment - including cities!

Lisez notre nouvelle analyse, améliorée, plus inclusive et planétaire, de l'environnement Une Seule Santé, y compris les villes !

10.1016/j.jemep.2025.101233

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Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 7d
Mosses love to decorate with slime molds. Northwest Territories, Canada.
#slime #fungifriends #myxo #moss #bryophyte #botany
Close up photo of a moss plant that appears to be decorated like a tree, with black bulbs (slime mold sporangia)

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 7d
MAKE ETHICS A THING AGAIN

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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 9d
Read this feature on Standing Together and our National Co-Director Alon-Lee Green: It dives deep into the history of the movement, what gives us hope despite immense challenges, and how we’re moving forward after the most difficult two years we can remember.
With a mass Jewish-Arab movement behind him, Alon-Lee Green is reshaping the Israeli left
With Thousands of Members, a Quarter-million Social Media Followers, and a Spot on TIME's List of Emerging Leaders, 'Standing Together' Co-founder Alon Lee-Green Is Charting a New Course for Israel's ...
www.haaretz.com

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 9d
and in homes all over the UK...
Grandfather and granddaughter lighting a Chunukah manorah on the third night at home.

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 9d
“Humans will leave an endless sea of trash behind them even if they disappear, because this is what you do when you party like there’s no tomorrow. And this is why there won’t be a tomorrow”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 9d
Superb!
The Bruxelles - Berlin was excellent, I am sure this will be too.

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Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 9d
Good to see this

Depriving our young people of the opportunity to travel their continent was a classic example of shooting ourselves in the foot

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 10d
Powerful heat pump modules, each with capacity 82.5 megawatts, enough to supply 40,000 homes, via district heating system.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The giant heat pumps designed to warm whole districts
Across Europe huge heat pumps are being installed that can heat tens of thousands of homes.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Extinction Rebellion UK @extinctionrebellion.uk · 10d
The dirty scrubbers green-wash hiding crimes of dirty business included Barclays, who were branded “totally dishonest” after calling tens of billions of dollars for fossil fuel companies “sustainable finance”.

⚠️65 biggest banks committed $7,900,000,000,000 over 9 years to the fossil fuel industry.

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 11d
In Bristol, England, at sundown today...

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 11d
And in Bristol, England...

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 12d
I will be attending the lighting of the first candle on the eve of Chunukah tonight at Bristol's college green, next to Ciy Hall.
If you are in Bristol, come and join us.
🥲 Heavy security assured->massive rise in global anti-semitism.
nilikm.bsky.social Dr Nili Kaplan-Myrth, MD PhD @nilikm.bsky.social · 12d
11 people in Australia were killed today by gunmen while they celebrated the first night of Chanukah at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Targeted because they were Jews.

As Jewish families around the world, we place our menorahs in our windows. Our message to the world: Light will outlive the darkness.
The photo here is from our home, where our family received death threats every night of Chanukah in 2022. In Canada.

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Dr Nili Kaplan-Myrth, MD PhD @nilikm.bsky.social · 12d
11 people in Australia were killed today by gunmen while they celebrated the first night of Chanukah at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Targeted because they were Jews.

As Jewish families around the world, we place our menorahs in our windows. Our message to the world: Light will outlive the darkness.
The photo here is from our home, where our family received death threats every night of Chanukah in 2022. In Canada.

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 13d
How much funding do we put into reducing the incidence of cancer?

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 13d
A robust comprehensive Health Impact Assessment would stop this toxic infrastructure in its tracks.
drpauldorfman.bsky.social Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 13d
UK new #nuclear Hinkley C costs have escalated from £18 billion to £46 billion pounds and rising.
Highly toxic high level radioactive waste will be sat on Severn Estuary coastline far into the future - 200 years and beyond.

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 13d
UK new #nuclear Hinkley C costs have escalated from £18 billion to £46 billion pounds and rising.
Highly toxic high level radioactive waste will be sat on Severn Estuary coastline far into the future - 200 years and beyond.

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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 13d
Old growth forests are irreplaceable. And now we're being told that the pollution on the air is so great that trees are struggling to absorb it all. Planting trees to offset our emissions isn't the magic fix airlines hope it is. Time for all of us to step up and go flight free.

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 13d
For planetary and human health, #PopulationMatters
tsakraklides.bsky.social George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 13d
“For a civilisation that has developed so many advanced scientific disciplines it is astounding that the very simple math of overpopulation, by far the biggest factor in overshoot, is being censored by society”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
The Tragic Limitations of Human Intelligence
50 Flavors of Stupid
open.substack.com

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 13d
“For a civilisation that has developed so many advanced scientific disciplines it is astounding that the very simple math of overpopulation, by far the biggest factor in overshoot, is being censored by society”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
The Tragic Limitations of Human Intelligence
50 Flavors of Stupid
open.substack.com

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 14d
The richest 10% control 94% of total capital-ownership assets in the United States. They determine how to use our labour and resources, what we produce, and how our surplus is deployed. They determine the direction of our civilization. It is the antithesis of democracy.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 14d
More than 8 cool, little-known or underrated Hanukah traditions, customs, cultural groovinesses and more from around the globe and beyond--

Check it out:
8 Hanukah Traditions + Bonus Goodies
that you might not know about
www.lifeisasacredtext.com

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 15d
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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 16d
Let's see some cancer charities step up to attack the causes of cancer, not just treat the casualties, the victims. My friends and family.

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 16d
Quite.
▶️ Especially when compared to my experience on the other networks across Europe!
ianwalker.bsky.social Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 16d
The Mohs Scale of Hardness:

Talc
Gypsum
Calcite
Fluorite
Apatite
Feldspar
Quartz
Topaz
Corundum
Diamond
GWR seats