Chris Poole
@chrisgpoole.bsky.social
Off the beaten track adventures - Cycling and Running. Powered by trees and nature, wine, dark beer and dark chocolate.
Reposted by Chris Poole
So yeah, Interrail isn’t just for gap-year backpackers.
It’s a vibe.
It’s affordable.
It’s flight-free travel done right.
Plan your route, pack snacks, charge your phone, and just enjoy the view. 🌍
Full guide here → flightfree.co.uk/post/how-to-... #SustainableTravel
It’s a vibe.
It’s affordable.
It’s flight-free travel done right.
Plan your route, pack snacks, charge your phone, and just enjoy the view. 🌍
Full guide here → flightfree.co.uk/post/how-to-... #SustainableTravel
How to interrail
A guide to using Europe's rail-travel pass, Interrail
flightfree.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
So yeah, Interrail isn’t just for gap-year backpackers.
It’s a vibe.
It’s affordable.
It’s flight-free travel done right.
Plan your route, pack snacks, charge your phone, and just enjoy the view. 🌍
Full guide here → flightfree.co.uk/post/how-to-... #SustainableTravel
It’s a vibe.
It’s affordable.
It’s flight-free travel done right.
Plan your route, pack snacks, charge your phone, and just enjoy the view. 🌍
Full guide here → flightfree.co.uk/post/how-to-... #SustainableTravel
Reposted by Chris Poole
You don’t need to fly to see Europe.
Seriously.
Trains can take you everywhere and it’s way cheaper (and greener) than you think.
Let’s talk about Interrail. #SustainableTravel #Interrail #SlowTravel #ClimateCrisis
Seriously.
Trains can take you everywhere and it’s way cheaper (and greener) than you think.
Let’s talk about Interrail. #SustainableTravel #Interrail #SlowTravel #ClimateCrisis
October 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
You don’t need to fly to see Europe.
Seriously.
Trains can take you everywhere and it’s way cheaper (and greener) than you think.
Let’s talk about Interrail. #SustainableTravel #Interrail #SlowTravel #ClimateCrisis
Seriously.
Trains can take you everywhere and it’s way cheaper (and greener) than you think.
Let’s talk about Interrail. #SustainableTravel #Interrail #SlowTravel #ClimateCrisis
Reposted by Chris Poole
Popping this one on your radar @zackpolanski.bsky.social. 🫡 www.desmog.com/2025/07/15/e...
Exposing Reform’s Oil Ties Significantly Reduces Party Support, New Research Finds
Reform UK’s oil industry interests are a major turn-off for voters, new research reveals. The think tank Persuasion UK tested five anti-Reform messages on 6,000 adults. According to the research, “by ...
www.desmog.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Popping this one on your radar @zackpolanski.bsky.social. 🫡 www.desmog.com/2025/07/15/e...
@nedboulting.bsky.social NSF podcast catchup at end of 3 week interrail/ biking trip in ITA/SLO. Listening to Dauphiné St 8 Übermensch pod the perfect companion for a 'slow' efficient TER train journey from Strasbourg- Metz. A region of 🇫🇷 that i don't know but looks verdant & ripe for future trips.
July 4, 2025 at 10:13 AM
@nedboulting.bsky.social NSF podcast catchup at end of 3 week interrail/ biking trip in ITA/SLO. Listening to Dauphiné St 8 Übermensch pod the perfect companion for a 'slow' efficient TER train journey from Strasbourg- Metz. A region of 🇫🇷 that i don't know but looks verdant & ripe for future trips.
Reposted by Chris Poole
If you run along the trails of our uplands then it is important to understand the landscape through which you move & how man’s management impacts its ability to act as a carbon sink.
Our national parks are not as healthy as you might think.
Important thread 👇🏻
Our national parks are not as healthy as you might think.
Important thread 👇🏻
1. This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breathtaking perversity, told in this thread. (There’s a one-page version at the bottom). 🧵
May 11, 2025 at 10:26 AM
If you run along the trails of our uplands then it is important to understand the landscape through which you move & how man’s management impacts its ability to act as a carbon sink.
Our national parks are not as healthy as you might think.
Important thread 👇🏻
Our national parks are not as healthy as you might think.
Important thread 👇🏻
Reposted by Chris Poole
Since this won't get nearly so much attention as the original #NetZero #ClimateEmergency row:
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
Tony Blair backs down on criticism of Government’s net-zero policy
www.independent.co.uk
April 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Since this won't get nearly so much attention as the original #NetZero #ClimateEmergency row:
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
Reposted by Chris Poole
“The government’s planning and infrastructure bill is the worst assault on England’s ecosystems in living memory. It erases decades of environmental protections, including inherited EU legislation which even the Tories promised to uphold.”
Please read & share.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Please read & share.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot
The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
April 24, 2025 at 10:03 AM
“The government’s planning and infrastructure bill is the worst assault on England’s ecosystems in living memory. It erases decades of environmental protections, including inherited EU legislation which even the Tories promised to uphold.”
Please read & share.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Please read & share.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What a brilliant mens De Ronde. Impressive performances from many of the top riders contributing to fastest race ever. As @cilliankelly.bsky.social wrote. 'This is the first time that three former (or current) world champions have finished 1-2-3 in a Monument Classic since the 1967 Paris-Roubaix'!
April 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
What a brilliant mens De Ronde. Impressive performances from many of the top riders contributing to fastest race ever. As @cilliankelly.bsky.social wrote. 'This is the first time that three former (or current) world champions have finished 1-2-3 in a Monument Classic since the 1967 Paris-Roubaix'!
Reposted by Chris Poole
This is the first time that three former (or current) world champions have finished 1-2-3 in a Monument Classic since the 1967 Paris-Roubaix
April 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This is the first time that three former (or current) world champions have finished 1-2-3 in a Monument Classic since the 1967 Paris-Roubaix
Reposted by Chris Poole
As @mitchelldickau.bsky.social notes, carbon released from the lithosphere (fossil fuels) cannot be compensated by carbon taken up in the biosphere (trees, plants, etc). Sadly this scam is widespread; it needs to be called out on every occasion.
1/3 Another study showing why nature-based carbon removal, in which the duration of removal may only be years to decades at worst, should not be used to offset fossil emissions.
Our latest research estimates that almost 40 percent of California’s forest offset buffer pool has been lost to wildfire. That’s roughly twice as many credits than have been set aside to address wildfire risks for the next 100 years. (1/4) 🧪https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17599
March 5, 2025 at 8:56 AM
As @mitchelldickau.bsky.social notes, carbon released from the lithosphere (fossil fuels) cannot be compensated by carbon taken up in the biosphere (trees, plants, etc). Sadly this scam is widespread; it needs to be called out on every occasion.
Reposted by Chris Poole
This is unbelievably and horribly shocking.
280 million acres = 1.13 million square kilometres, which is:
11.5% of the USA
33% of USA's forest cover
64-91% of USA’s national forest + protected public land area (exact figure depending on how much protected public land is also national forest)
280 million acres = 1.13 million square kilometres, which is:
11.5% of the USA
33% of USA's forest cover
64-91% of USA’s national forest + protected public land area (exact figure depending on how much protected public land is also national forest)
And now this…👇
Angry yet?!
This. Once. Great. Country. Is. Weeping. ✨
Angry yet?!
This. Once. Great. Country. Is. Weeping. ✨
March 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This is unbelievably and horribly shocking.
280 million acres = 1.13 million square kilometres, which is:
11.5% of the USA
33% of USA's forest cover
64-91% of USA’s national forest + protected public land area (exact figure depending on how much protected public land is also national forest)
280 million acres = 1.13 million square kilometres, which is:
11.5% of the USA
33% of USA's forest cover
64-91% of USA’s national forest + protected public land area (exact figure depending on how much protected public land is also national forest)
Reposted by Chris Poole
Our planet is burning and our banks are fuelling the fire.
UK high-street banks Barclays, HSBC, Santander, NatWest and Lloyds have funded fossil fuels with $556 billion since 2016.
It’s time to go green. Switch to Starling, Nationwide or Triodos.
Act now: makemymoneymatter.co.uk
UK high-street banks Barclays, HSBC, Santander, NatWest and Lloyds have funded fossil fuels with $556 billion since 2016.
It’s time to go green. Switch to Starling, Nationwide or Triodos.
Act now: makemymoneymatter.co.uk
February 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Our planet is burning and our banks are fuelling the fire.
UK high-street banks Barclays, HSBC, Santander, NatWest and Lloyds have funded fossil fuels with $556 billion since 2016.
It’s time to go green. Switch to Starling, Nationwide or Triodos.
Act now: makemymoneymatter.co.uk
UK high-street banks Barclays, HSBC, Santander, NatWest and Lloyds have funded fossil fuels with $556 billion since 2016.
It’s time to go green. Switch to Starling, Nationwide or Triodos.
Act now: makemymoneymatter.co.uk
Reposted by Chris Poole
The Highway Code changes three years on… and it’s not looking great
Most drivers wrongly believe cyclists must ride single file, stay close to the kerb, and use cycle lanes – and one in three say they shouldn’t have equal rights on the road, new survey finds
road.cc/312627 #cycling
Most drivers wrongly believe cyclists must ride single file, stay close to the kerb, and use cycle lanes – and one in three say they shouldn’t have equal rights on the road, new survey finds
road.cc/312627 #cycling
Most drivers wrongly believe cyclists must ride single file, stay close to the kerb, and use cycle lanes – and one in three say they shouldn’t have equal rights on the road, new Highway Code survey fi...
The study also found that 74 per cent of drivers feel some frustration around cyclists, though 96 per cent claimed they leave the recommended 1.5m distance when overtaking people on bikes
road.cc
February 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The Highway Code changes three years on… and it’s not looking great
Most drivers wrongly believe cyclists must ride single file, stay close to the kerb, and use cycle lanes – and one in three say they shouldn’t have equal rights on the road, new survey finds
road.cc/312627 #cycling
Most drivers wrongly believe cyclists must ride single file, stay close to the kerb, and use cycle lanes – and one in three say they shouldn’t have equal rights on the road, new survey finds
road.cc/312627 #cycling
Reposted by Chris Poole
THREAD: I’m going to share this thread here to clearly state my perspective on electric vehicles, car dependency and better cities, for all those who frequently ask me about it, including media, elected leaders and many others. Here goes. Please share it frequently if you think it will help. 🧵#EVS
November 11, 2024 at 11:11 PM
THREAD: I’m going to share this thread here to clearly state my perspective on electric vehicles, car dependency and better cities, for all those who frequently ask me about it, including media, elected leaders and many others. Here goes. Please share it frequently if you think it will help. 🧵#EVS