Fergal Byrne
@agendaearth.bsky.social
Host of a number of environmental and social innovation themed podcasts.
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Thank GOD for Andrew Fisher!! FINALLY we get to hear about Spain on #r4today
The fastest growing economy in Europe & outstripping the US as well & how?
Wealth tax, rent controls & a positive integration-focused approach to immigration & asylum!! 🙌👏👏👏
The fastest growing economy in Europe & outstripping the US as well & how?
Wealth tax, rent controls & a positive integration-focused approach to immigration & asylum!! 🙌👏👏👏
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Thank GOD for Andrew Fisher!! FINALLY we get to hear about Spain on #r4today
The fastest growing economy in Europe & outstripping the US as well & how?
Wealth tax, rent controls & a positive integration-focused approach to immigration & asylum!! 🙌👏👏👏
The fastest growing economy in Europe & outstripping the US as well & how?
Wealth tax, rent controls & a positive integration-focused approach to immigration & asylum!! 🙌👏👏👏
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My latest: #COP30, global climate politics, and what happens next — for @theguardian.com
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November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
My latest: #COP30, global climate politics, and what happens next — for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Thank you to NPR @npr for choosing GREYHOUND in its favourite books of 2025. Very grateful to Bridget Bentz for selecting my strange hybrid road trip of a book!
“"An engaging combination of the profound and the profane—much like the country Pocock traverses."
#greyhound #npr #bookreviews
“"An engaging combination of the profound and the profane—much like the country Pocock traverses."
#greyhound #npr #bookreviews
November 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Thank you to NPR @npr for choosing GREYHOUND in its favourite books of 2025. Very grateful to Bridget Bentz for selecting my strange hybrid road trip of a book!
“"An engaging combination of the profound and the profane—much like the country Pocock traverses."
#greyhound #npr #bookreviews
“"An engaging combination of the profound and the profane—much like the country Pocock traverses."
#greyhound #npr #bookreviews
Fiduciary responsibility, innit.
November 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Fiduciary responsibility, innit.
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‘Around a quarter of all clothing manufactured is never sold, and the rates of return within the refund window can be as high as 50 per cent. Most of this unwanted stock is buried or burned.’
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on why we can’t get rid of our waste.
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@brettchristophers.bsky.social on why we can’t get rid of our waste.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
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November 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
‘Around a quarter of all clothing manufactured is never sold, and the rates of return within the refund window can be as high as 50 per cent. Most of this unwanted stock is buried or burned.’
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on why we can’t get rid of our waste.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on why we can’t get rid of our waste.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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A new piece for @thenation.com on everyone's favourite industry -- private equity; in conversation with one of the many new books on PE, by Megan Greenwell.
Here:
Here:
Can We Blame Private Equity for Everything?
Did PE firms make the world worse? Or was it something else?
www.thenation.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
A new piece for @thenation.com on everyone's favourite industry -- private equity; in conversation with one of the many new books on PE, by Megan Greenwell.
Here:
Here:
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Still reading Greyhound by Joanna Pocock. I’m on page 239. Reading slowly…I don’t want to get to the end of the book. I love Greyhound. In 1981, at the age of 17, I rode on a Greyhound bus from Detroit to Los Angeles. It was an experience of a lifetime.
November 16, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Still reading Greyhound by Joanna Pocock. I’m on page 239. Reading slowly…I don’t want to get to the end of the book. I love Greyhound. In 1981, at the age of 17, I rode on a Greyhound bus from Detroit to Los Angeles. It was an experience of a lifetime.
Oh!
This is not the circular economy we meant. #ArtificialIndustryComplex
Nvidia invests in OpenAI, OpenAI rents compute from Oracle, Oracle buys Nvidia’s hardware, and Nvidia records huge sales.
Everyone in the circle reports rising revenue, rising valuations, and surging share prices, but the cash is largely moving in circles.
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Everyone in the circle reports rising revenue, rising valuations, and surging share prices, but the cash is largely moving in circles.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-ai-cir...
October 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Oh!
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You heard it here, folks: 'Do not pass GO'.
I am so very grateful for the readers who get in touch with their responses to reading GREYHOUND and their reminiscences of the road.... It's a book about the Greyhound bus, while also being about so many other things...
I am so very grateful for the readers who get in touch with their responses to reading GREYHOUND and their reminiscences of the road.... It's a book about the Greyhound bus, while also being about so many other things...
Just finished 'Greyhound' by @joannapocock.bsky.social - Go get a copy. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Beautiful book...
Greyhound
Combining history, reportage, and nature writing with intimate moments of reflection, Greyhound tells of the journey from miscarriage to parenthood, and the purpose creativity gives to our lives wh…
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October 9, 2025 at 9:48 AM
You heard it here, folks: 'Do not pass GO'.
I am so very grateful for the readers who get in touch with their responses to reading GREYHOUND and their reminiscences of the road.... It's a book about the Greyhound bus, while also being about so many other things...
I am so very grateful for the readers who get in touch with their responses to reading GREYHOUND and their reminiscences of the road.... It's a book about the Greyhound bus, while also being about so many other things...
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this is absolutely my favorite protest innovation of 2025
"my opponents are violent antifa extremist terrorists"
"your opponents are dressed as giant inflatable frogs"
solid fuck you to the pepe crowd too
"my opponents are violent antifa extremist terrorists"
"your opponents are dressed as giant inflatable frogs"
solid fuck you to the pepe crowd too
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
October 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
this is absolutely my favorite protest innovation of 2025
"my opponents are violent antifa extremist terrorists"
"your opponents are dressed as giant inflatable frogs"
solid fuck you to the pepe crowd too
"my opponents are violent antifa extremist terrorists"
"your opponents are dressed as giant inflatable frogs"
solid fuck you to the pepe crowd too
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ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.
October 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.
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they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work
see you all there
see you all there
Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."
October 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work
see you all there
see you all there
Great stuff! But a bird never flew on one wing. Another wonderful interview with Chris for the Sustainability Agenda -with sound accompaniement by Cat Byrne, Clapton edgelands (i), gathered in the Lea Valley, Clapton, London, during November 2024. www.thesustainabilityagenda.com/podcast/epis...
October 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Great stuff! But a bird never flew on one wing. Another wonderful interview with Chris for the Sustainability Agenda -with sound accompaniement by Cat Byrne, Clapton edgelands (i), gathered in the Lea Valley, Clapton, London, during November 2024. www.thesustainabilityagenda.com/podcast/epis...
Yess!! But a bird never flew on one wing. 🙂 Another wonderful interview with Chris for the Sustainability Agenda with sound by Cat Byrne, Clapton edgelands (i), gathered in the Lea Valley, Clapton, London, during November 2024. www.thesustainabilityagenda.com/podcast/epis...
October 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Yess!! But a bird never flew on one wing. 🙂 Another wonderful interview with Chris for the Sustainability Agenda with sound by Cat Byrne, Clapton edgelands (i), gathered in the Lea Valley, Clapton, London, during November 2024. www.thesustainabilityagenda.com/podcast/epis...
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River abstraction has soared 76% over two decades, threatening rivers, ecosystems and future supply. Water companies fall back on extracting more from already stressed rivers 4/4
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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England’s rivers ‘under threat’ as water extraction surges to record levels
Exclusive: Investigation finds 76% rise in water taken from rivers and lakes for industrial or public consumption in two decades
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
River abstraction has soared 76% over two decades, threatening rivers, ecosystems and future supply. Water companies fall back on extracting more from already stressed rivers 4/4
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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@bookshop.org is offering free shipping today and tomorrow
might i suggest @joannapocock.bsky.social
exquisite memoir
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might i suggest @joannapocock.bsky.social
exquisite memoir
bookshop.org/p/books/grey...
October 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
@bookshop.org is offering free shipping today and tomorrow
might i suggest @joannapocock.bsky.social
exquisite memoir
bookshop.org/p/books/grey...
might i suggest @joannapocock.bsky.social
exquisite memoir
bookshop.org/p/books/grey...
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The paperback edition of A Natural History of Empty Lots is out today from Timber Press @hachetteus.bsky.social! Thanks to all the readers who have picked up the hardcover and ebook over the past year (or listened to the audiobook) and spread the word 🙏📖💚
October 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The paperback edition of A Natural History of Empty Lots is out today from Timber Press @hachetteus.bsky.social! Thanks to all the readers who have picked up the hardcover and ebook over the past year (or listened to the audiobook) and spread the word 🙏📖💚
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At this point I am just a @triofrancos.bsky.social superfan & wanna recommend everything she’s doing but I particularly enjoyed this interview with @jathansadowski.com & @edwardongwesojr.com on all things extraction, stranded renewables assets, China, & much more 🫡
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425. The Oxymorons of Green Capitalism (ft. Thea Riofrancos)
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October 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
At this point I am just a @triofrancos.bsky.social superfan & wanna recommend everything she’s doing but I particularly enjoyed this interview with @jathansadowski.com & @edwardongwesojr.com on all things extraction, stranded renewables assets, China, & much more 🫡
open.spotify.com/episode/4kfb...
open.spotify.com/episode/4kfb...
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This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
October 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
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On November 5, I'll be teaching an online class for @writersleaguetexas.bsky.social on nature writing in the 21st century—as both genre in its own right and essential element for writers in any genre. It should be a lot of fun: writersleague.org/calendar/wri...
“Writing the Natural World: A 21st Century Reboot” with Christopher Brown
$59 for Members $119 for Non-Members For any writer in any genre, nature is a presence in the narrative, whether as the central focus or ambient background. Writing the natural world presents a tre…
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October 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
On November 5, I'll be teaching an online class for @writersleaguetexas.bsky.social on nature writing in the 21st century—as both genre in its own right and essential element for writers in any genre. It should be a lot of fun: writersleague.org/calendar/wri...
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Very much liked this book —
Austin folks: please join us Tuesday night at Alienated Majesty Books for the paperback release of A Natural History of Empty Lots (and a month-long celebration of this amazing bookstore's second birthday): alienatedmajestybooks.com/events/34023...
Paperback Release & Eco-Panel: A NATURAL HISTORY OF EMPTY LOTS by Christopher Brown | Alienated Majesty Books
Home of the leastsellers in Austin, Texas. Small presses, poetry, comics, translated works, and titles you can't find elsewhere.
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October 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Very much liked this book —
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This was a really fun conversation. Thank you @liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social 🙏🙏🙏
New episode of the Rippling Pages is out now with @joannapocock.bsky.social on GREYHOUND @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
This one is finding kindness and perspective while out on the American Road and much more
It’s a journey Joanna’s done twice! Find out why here:
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This one is finding kindness and perspective while out on the American Road and much more
It’s a journey Joanna’s done twice! Find out why here:
linktr.ee/ripplingpage...
October 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This was a really fun conversation. Thank you @liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social 🙏🙏🙏
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The US president trafficked & raped underage girls, the evidence is overwhelming, everyone knows it, and this country's elites & institutions are so broken, so insular, so decadent that we can't even bring ourselves to state it clearly, much less do anything about it.
Contemptible & pathetic.
Contemptible & pathetic.
September 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The US president trafficked & raped underage girls, the evidence is overwhelming, everyone knows it, and this country's elites & institutions are so broken, so insular, so decadent that we can't even bring ourselves to state it clearly, much less do anything about it.
Contemptible & pathetic.
Contemptible & pathetic.