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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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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 1d
This is the important next step for healthy cities.

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saidibe.bsky.social @saidibe.bsky.social · 2d
Perhaps because to decision makers public health= healthcare.
Seemingly concrete financial savings fit the accounting way of thinking better than nebulous benefits to health and wellbeing. Sounds more technocratic and gives sense of control. Intangibles harder to sell - a perpetual challenge.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d
Yes!
'London should retime traffic lights for cyclist safety ' - Lime bikes boss
'London should follow Copengahen and Amsterdam by retiming traffic lights to reward safe cyclists'
www.mylondon.news

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Kim Rollings PhD @kimrollingsphd.bsky.social · 3d
Enjoyed presenting to @umichsph.bsky.social students about healthy housing and aging this week!

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Gil Penalosa @penalosag.bsky.social · 4d
Today: CAR-FREE DAY IN BOGOTA

26 years ago my brother Enrique as mayor, created the CAR-FREE DAY in Bogotá, citywide, 8m pp

After first one, car people upset, it's never easy. There was a referendum & over 2/3 in favor! This is why it continues, most residents love it!
Equity, sustainability, fun!

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 4d
Name them
shame them

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 4d
In short: the #AMOC is weakening, may collapse this century, &even small shifts could trigger abrupt change

These tipping points are a major national security blind spot, threatening food, energy &global stability, they must be addressed urgently

As argued here by @laurielaybourn.bsky.social et al
The security blind spot: Cascading climate impacts and tipping points threaten national security | IPPR
The new UK government has initiated a Strategic Defence Review and is undertaking a review of national resilience. Security threats resulting from climate
www.ippr.org

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 5d
#allotment!
Autumn King carrots harvested today, only dry day this week.
Planted September, stood the Winter. Horray!

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 6d
Wake up.
Public health should have spotted this deathtrap before the bodies started to pile up.
peterheadcbe.bsky.social Peter Head @peterheadcbe.bsky.social · 6d
China to become first country to ban hidden car door handles. This due to safety concerns after EV accidents where electronic doors reportedly failed to operate and trapped passengers inside.
Sky News
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China to become first country to ban hidden door handles — Sky News
From next year, new car models will have to have both exterior and interior handles with mechanical releases.
apple.news

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Peter Head @peterheadcbe.bsky.social · 6d
China to become first country to ban hidden car door handles. This due to safety concerns after EV accidents where electronic doors reportedly failed to operate and trapped passengers inside.
Sky News
apple.news/A-SUXHfAvTiC...
China to become first country to ban hidden door handles — Sky News
From next year, new car models will have to have both exterior and interior handles with mechanical releases.
apple.news

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tiwzy d @riglow.com · 7d
classic feelings over facts moment from the facts over feelings demographic

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Andy Cycles @andycyclesdublin.bsky.social · 7d
Cars kill hundreds of people every single year in Ireland. Cause untold carnage. Have destroyed the ability of kids to get anywhere safely. Congest our cities etc. But cyclists are the nightmare. Right got it.

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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 7d
Looking for other ways to help grow the #flightfree movement in 2026? Why not chip in with a donation to Flight Free UK; we're a small charity on a big mission, and your support goes a long way. Head to our website and click 'donate'! flightfree.co.uk
Flight Free UK
Fight climate change: make the pledge to be flight free in 2026
flightfree.co.uk

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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 7d
“Could river restorations be key to easing floods?”

To some extent yes, but tackling climate change is the key issue

(& a lot of the surface flooding we’ve seen recently is nothing to do with rivers)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Could river restorations be key to easing floods?
Climate change is bringing warmer, wetter winters, which means more frequent flooding.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 8d
Remember when Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, had the journalist Jamal Khashoggi killed and dismembered in Istanbul in 2018?

Yet everyone bends to him due to his power over oil supply.

The world would be so much less evil if we phased out fossil fuels.

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 8d
Fossil fuel firms may have to pay for #climate damage under proposed UN tax
Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation could also force ultra-rich to pay global wealth tax
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel firms may have to pay for climate damage under proposed UN tax
Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation could also force ultra-rich to pay global wealth tax
www.theguardian.com

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 8d
'Sellafield Awash with Chemicals – Rivers, Sea, Soil, Nothing is Off Limits for “Disposal” of This Toxic Brew Mixed with Dangerous Radioactive Isotopes from Atomic “Clean Energy”.'
mariannewildart.wordpress.com/2026/01/31/s...
Sellafield is Awash with Acid Chemicals – Rivers, Sea, Soil, Nothing is Off Limits for “Disposal” of This Toxic Brew Mixed with Dangerous Radioactive Isotopes at the Arse End of Atomic “Clean Energy”
Sellafield’s Latest £22 MILLION Chemical Tender for wiping the Arse End of “Clean Energy” Image: Poster proudly displayed by West Cumbria Mining’s open day illustrating the Marchon Chemical W…
mariannewildart.wordpress.com

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 9d
Small Modular Reactors (SMRs). What is the reality?
#nuclear #SMR
policybrief.org/briefs/small...
Small Modular Reactors: Game changer or more of the same? - Policy Brief
With current large reactor designs tarnished by their poor record of construction, attention for the future of new nuclear power plants has switched to Small
policybrief.org

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Cities & Health @citiesxhealth.bsky.social · 9d
Jogging route preference research by Yumeng Huang et al.
🔍 #CityKnowHows
🔍 Creating healthier cities: How jogger preferences can guide urban planning!

www.cityknow-how.com/creating-hea...
#Cities4Health
Creating healthier cities: How jogger preferences can guide urban planning! – City Know-how
www.cityknow-how.com

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austinzheng.bsky.social @austinzheng.bsky.social · 9d
I don't think people appreciate enough the fact that, at a time where global warming was approaching an inflection point yet renewable energy was finally becoming economically viable, we decided to squander that opportunity because literal death cultists decided we needed Infinite Bullshit Machines.

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 10d
Triple win!
The health of the planet, population health and the quality of life for many animals.

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 10d
We are living in the end game for planetary health and thus human health.

Ask yourself, what issues have captured the focus of my local public health authority?

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 10d
“In simple terms, human history is the tale of two opposite yet simultaneous exponential functions: exponential economic and population growth on one hand, and the exponential disappearance of life on Earth on the other”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
The Growth Dogma: How Humans Resigned Themselves to Acceleration
Thousands of years ago humans supercharged their journey towards collapse by unconditionally embracing the most disruptive, extractive, and self-annihilating technologies. Although the agricultural, i...
open.substack.com

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Cargo Bike Ben @cargobikeben.bsky.social · 11d
Labour keeps talking about saving the high street without naming the real problem. Car dependency. You cannot fix town centres while planning everything around driving. The internet is permanent. Retail only survives where footfall is dense, local, frequent, and cheap to access.
Labour risks election wipeout unless it improves Britain’s high streets, study finds
Decay of town centres a top issue among voters especially Reform UK supporters and is fuelling resentment against Westminster
www.theguardian.com

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 13d
As always, a remarkable event.

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 13d
The question isn't 'What would you have done then?'
But' What are you doing now?'

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 13d
Arrived early for Holocaust Memorial event at Bristol City Hall

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 14d
“Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow & ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehood. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement, seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy .. the vision.”

Rabbi AJ Heschel

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 16d
Never have, never will.