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Fostering community spirit. “peace is wholeness created by right relationships with...other persons, other life, Earth and the larger whole...” Earth Charter
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BREAKING: Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 reut.rs/42uh3Aw
October 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
BREAKING: Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 reut.rs/42uh3Aw
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You wouldn't know it from today's newspaper front pages screaming "betrayal", but new YouGov polling finds that 66% of British people now want the Government to deliver a closer relationship with the EU, compared to just 14% who don't
May 20, 2025 at 10:31 AM
You wouldn't know it from today's newspaper front pages screaming "betrayal", but new YouGov polling finds that 66% of British people now want the Government to deliver a closer relationship with the EU, compared to just 14% who don't
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“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars… Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo & #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.” #VisionZero #SpeedKills
How Helsinki and Oslo cut pedestrian deaths to zero
After years of committed action, neither city recorded a single pedestrian fatality in 2019
www.theguardian.com
May 3, 2025 at 10:42 PM
“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars… Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo & #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.” #VisionZero #SpeedKills
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Labour’s planning bill threatens protected habitats, says environment watchdog
Labour’s planning bill threatens protected habitats, says environment watchdog
Nature organisations say legislation would remove safeguards for nature and put protected sites at risk
Keir Starmer’s planning bill has been criticised by the environment watchdog, which has warned that the draft of the legislation would remove safeguards for nature and put protected sites at risk.
Currently, laws that protect habitats and nature are derived from EU legislation. Since the UK left the bloc, it has been able to weaken these laws that protect specific species and habitats. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Labour’s planning bill threatens protected habitats, says environment watchdog
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A lovely article on how communities planting trees are coming closer together by @olivialeejourno.bsky.social. I've just organised a group of residents on a WhatsApp to water our new 6 fruit trees: 5/6 currently have a guardian! Will update you all after Easter.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It will be beautiful to see our kids grow up with this’: how communities around the world are planting trees
City residents are working out how to fill their streets with trees as evidence grows of their benefits
www.theguardian.com
April 19, 2025 at 8:59 AM
A lovely article on how communities planting trees are coming closer together by @olivialeejourno.bsky.social. I've just organised a group of residents on a WhatsApp to water our new 6 fruit trees: 5/6 currently have a guardian! Will update you all after Easter.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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🔥 "Farmland in Norfolk is being bought up by mega-rich counts and foreign billionaires, putting the squeeze on family farms.
Researchers at Who Owns Norfolk? (WON)... have found farmland is being “hoovered up” by investors from abroad."
Researchers at Who Owns Norfolk? (WON)... have found farmland is being “hoovered up” by investors from abroad."
The super rich are “hoovering up” Norfolk land
Italian counts, Dubai royals, and German heirs now own swathes of Norfolk. Family farms can’t compete
eastangliabylines.co.uk
April 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
🔥 "Farmland in Norfolk is being bought up by mega-rich counts and foreign billionaires, putting the squeeze on family farms.
Researchers at Who Owns Norfolk? (WON)... have found farmland is being “hoovered up” by investors from abroad."
Researchers at Who Owns Norfolk? (WON)... have found farmland is being “hoovered up” by investors from abroad."
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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Retweet if you think Michael Gove should be handed a sentence rather than a peerage.
April 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Retweet if you think Michael Gove should be handed a sentence rather than a peerage.
The Handmaid's Tale...
April 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The Handmaid's Tale...
What a great story - a real timeline cleanser.
A while ago a lovely German man appeared at our church. He came a few times to look around during our Saturday opening hours, before asking if the piano abandoned in the corner worked.
I told him it was horrendously out of tune, and the cathedral piano tuner had deemed it not worth sorting out.
I told him it was horrendously out of tune, and the cathedral piano tuner had deemed it not worth sorting out.
April 1, 2025 at 9:10 AM
What a great story - a real timeline cleanser.
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The press have caught up with this awful story of a violent police raid on a Quaker meeting house - front page of the Sunday Times today.
Beautiful line from a Quaker Elder “The only resistance I could put up was to make tea and drink it in front of them without offering them any.”
archive.ph/Ndh1z
Beautiful line from a Quaker Elder “The only resistance I could put up was to make tea and drink it in front of them without offering them any.”
archive.ph/Ndh1z
March 30, 2025 at 6:42 AM
The press have caught up with this awful story of a violent police raid on a Quaker meeting house - front page of the Sunday Times today.
Beautiful line from a Quaker Elder “The only resistance I could put up was to make tea and drink it in front of them without offering them any.”
archive.ph/Ndh1z
Beautiful line from a Quaker Elder “The only resistance I could put up was to make tea and drink it in front of them without offering them any.”
archive.ph/Ndh1z
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Never forget, if you design a city for cars, it fails for everyone, including drivers.
If you design a multi-modal city that makes walking, biking & public transit attractive options, it works better for everyone, including drivers.
INCLUDING DRIVERS.
The “war on cars” has always been a lie.
If you design a multi-modal city that makes walking, biking & public transit attractive options, it works better for everyone, including drivers.
INCLUDING DRIVERS.
The “war on cars” has always been a lie.
March 26, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Never forget, if you design a city for cars, it fails for everyone, including drivers.
If you design a multi-modal city that makes walking, biking & public transit attractive options, it works better for everyone, including drivers.
INCLUDING DRIVERS.
The “war on cars” has always been a lie.
If you design a multi-modal city that makes walking, biking & public transit attractive options, it works better for everyone, including drivers.
INCLUDING DRIVERS.
The “war on cars” has always been a lie.
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Brilliant news on a Friday afternoon: gov will launch new natural history GCSE. It's taken Mary Colwell, @carolinelucas.bsky.social & others years of campaigning. (I'm praying it'll be introduced quickly enough for my children!)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Department for Education confirms launch of natural history GCSE
Campaigners have been calling for the qualification for years but plan stalled despite a curriculum being drawn up
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Brilliant news on a Friday afternoon: gov will launch new natural history GCSE. It's taken Mary Colwell, @carolinelucas.bsky.social & others years of campaigning. (I'm praying it'll be introduced quickly enough for my children!)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"A man who fells a tree makes people watch,
A swinging axe has always drawn a crowd.
I know ...
... how timber in a stack
Had more good in it than a growing tree --
But I saw death cut down a thousand men
In that tall lovely legacy of wood."
Clifford Dyment
A swinging axe has always drawn a crowd.
I know ...
... how timber in a stack
Had more good in it than a growing tree --
But I saw death cut down a thousand men
In that tall lovely legacy of wood."
Clifford Dyment
Trump has ordered that large areas of America’s forests be felled for timber, evading rules to protect endangered species while doing so and raising the prospect of chainsaws razing some of the most ecologically important trees in the US.
Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber
President’s move to expand tree cutting across 280m acres evades rules to protect endangered species
www.theguardian.com
March 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
"A man who fells a tree makes people watch,
A swinging axe has always drawn a crowd.
I know ...
... how timber in a stack
Had more good in it than a growing tree --
But I saw death cut down a thousand men
In that tall lovely legacy of wood."
Clifford Dyment
A swinging axe has always drawn a crowd.
I know ...
... how timber in a stack
Had more good in it than a growing tree --
But I saw death cut down a thousand men
In that tall lovely legacy of wood."
Clifford Dyment
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Wales Is Leading the Way on Ending Lying in Politics
The Welsh Government looks set to impose bold new restrictions on lying in politics. It’s time for Westminster to follow suit
bylinetimes.com/2025/02/19/w...
The Welsh Government looks set to impose bold new restrictions on lying in politics. It’s time for Westminster to follow suit
bylinetimes.com/2025/02/19/w...
'Wales Is Leading the Way on Ending Lying in Politics. Westminster Must Now Do the Same'
The Welsh Government looks set to impose bold new restrictions on lying in politics. It's time for Westminster to follow suit, argues Jennifer Nadel
bylinetimes.com
February 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Wales Is Leading the Way on Ending Lying in Politics
The Welsh Government looks set to impose bold new restrictions on lying in politics. It’s time for Westminster to follow suit
bylinetimes.com/2025/02/19/w...
The Welsh Government looks set to impose bold new restrictions on lying in politics. It’s time for Westminster to follow suit
bylinetimes.com/2025/02/19/w...
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For decades we've been persuaded by billionaire propaganda that regulations are bad for us. But I hope everyone now understands that they are all that stands between us and barbarism. Deregulation is class war.
February 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
For decades we've been persuaded by billionaire propaganda that regulations are bad for us. But I hope everyone now understands that they are all that stands between us and barbarism. Deregulation is class war.
"Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts."
It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too.
Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.
Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.
Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
February 1, 2025 at 10:30 AM
"Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts."
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Final asylum seekers leave barge www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
Final asylum seekers have now left the Bibby Stockholm
Most claims from 400 men on vessel moored in Portland, Dorset have been processed, with majority accepted
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Final asylum seekers leave barge www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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Finally, this is the best textbook I've come across that explores the relationship between #climate and society.
It's a must read for students & teachers in the social sciences, but everyone would benefit with being more familiar with these ideas and approaches.
Happy reading! 📚 📖
It's a must read for students & teachers in the social sciences, but everyone would benefit with being more familiar with these ideas and approaches.
Happy reading! 📚 📖
November 22, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Finally, this is the best textbook I've come across that explores the relationship between #climate and society.
It's a must read for students & teachers in the social sciences, but everyone would benefit with being more familiar with these ideas and approaches.
Happy reading! 📚 📖
It's a must read for students & teachers in the social sciences, but everyone would benefit with being more familiar with these ideas and approaches.
Happy reading! 📚 📖
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Lots of positive news from Labour this week.
From a bus revolution to taking on exploitative children’s homes, there’s plenty for progressives to be proud of.
The full list:
From a bus revolution to taking on exploitative children’s homes, there’s plenty for progressives to be proud of.
The full list:
November 22, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Lots of positive news from Labour this week.
From a bus revolution to taking on exploitative children’s homes, there’s plenty for progressives to be proud of.
The full list:
From a bus revolution to taking on exploitative children’s homes, there’s plenty for progressives to be proud of.
The full list:
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Just the past 31 days of fires. ONE MONTH.
Brazil (South America, really) is breaking all sorts of horrible records. Besides a handful of small fires in Brazil's central interior, very few of these are natural.
Brazil (South America, really) is breaking all sorts of horrible records. Besides a handful of small fires in Brazil's central interior, very few of these are natural.
September 20, 2024 at 8:09 AM
Just the past 31 days of fires. ONE MONTH.
Brazil (South America, really) is breaking all sorts of horrible records. Besides a handful of small fires in Brazil's central interior, very few of these are natural.
Brazil (South America, really) is breaking all sorts of horrible records. Besides a handful of small fires in Brazil's central interior, very few of these are natural.
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Bluesky explained in 60 seconds!
November 13, 2024 at 4:15 AM
Bluesky explained in 60 seconds!
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Wow. I had no idea on BlueSky you can enable external media so you can watch YouTube videos on this platform. It overcomes the problem of only being able to upload 60 seconds of video here. It’s gets better & better
November 14, 2024 at 8:47 AM
Wow. I had no idea on BlueSky you can enable external media so you can watch YouTube videos on this platform. It overcomes the problem of only being able to upload 60 seconds of video here. It’s gets better & better