Nick Grant
@ecominimalnick.bsky.social
Energy consultant and design engineer. Specialising in Passivhaus building, archives and museums. Love talking bollocks but low tolerance for bullshit.
Teaching building physics with https://coaction.org.uk
The Good Building Book with Jon Broom Jan 2026.
Teaching building physics with https://coaction.org.uk
The Good Building Book with Jon Broom Jan 2026.
Turned out nice
February 13, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Turned out nice
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A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful.
Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.
Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.
February 13, 2026 at 10:22 AM
A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful.
Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.
Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.
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RAPID RESPONSE ACTION
The Royal Courts have just announced that the judgment for the Judicial Review over the ban on Palestine Action will take place this Friday at 10am
wedonotcomply.org - all links and info
Action will take place in London and Edinburgh.
Lift The Ban on Palestine Action!
The Royal Courts have just announced that the judgment for the Judicial Review over the ban on Palestine Action will take place this Friday at 10am
wedonotcomply.org - all links and info
Action will take place in London and Edinburgh.
Lift The Ban on Palestine Action!
February 12, 2026 at 12:09 PM
RAPID RESPONSE ACTION
The Royal Courts have just announced that the judgment for the Judicial Review over the ban on Palestine Action will take place this Friday at 10am
wedonotcomply.org - all links and info
Action will take place in London and Edinburgh.
Lift The Ban on Palestine Action!
The Royal Courts have just announced that the judgment for the Judicial Review over the ban on Palestine Action will take place this Friday at 10am
wedonotcomply.org - all links and info
Action will take place in London and Edinburgh.
Lift The Ban on Palestine Action!
We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world
The most disturbing revelation so far
open.substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 10:46 AM
We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Sorry but Hamnet didn’t move me but here is some Shakespeare that did, thanks to @thenerve.news share.google/TUU3epTDPYtJ... (struggling to find a link without explanation of who Shakespeare is etc). Hope it works!
February 7, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Sorry but Hamnet didn’t move me but here is some Shakespeare that did, thanks to @thenerve.news share.google/TUU3epTDPYtJ... (struggling to find a link without explanation of who Shakespeare is etc). Hope it works!
Nice not to feel any pressure to struggle through any more of Chomsky’s writing
February 7, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Nice not to feel any pressure to struggle through any more of Chomsky’s writing
Always a very good column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Never forget Epstein’s little helpers – the powerful men who knew about his crimes, and helped him out anyway | Marina Hyde
I’m sorry, but this is not just a political scandal. Time to refocus on the horrific mistreatment of women and girls, and the role of these ghouls, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Always a very good column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
". . . in 2026 we merely assume any apparently insane news pronouncement probably has something to do with the adjudicated sex offender and Village People fan Donald Trump, . . ."
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Stewart Lee: Neil Young is right – let’s keep on rockin’ while it’s still a free world
The great musician has donated his entire back catalogue to Greenland in an act of solidarity – though there may not be many takers for the 80s rockabilly album
www.thenerve.news
February 7, 2026 at 8:09 AM
". . . in 2026 we merely assume any apparently insane news pronouncement probably has something to do with the adjudicated sex offender and Village People fan Donald Trump, . . ."
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Thanks George, what a great bunch of people. @waterstones.bsky.social Hereford were great hosts.
Great turnout for The Good Building Book launch in Hereford with the authors @ecominimalnick.bsky.social and Jon Broome
Good to catch up with folk, hope the book sells like hot cakes
Good to catch up with folk, hope the book sells like hot cakes
February 6, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Thanks George, what a great bunch of people. @waterstones.bsky.social Hereford were great hosts.
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William Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them.
They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear.
While helping to consign us all to catastrophe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear.
While helping to consign us all to catastrophe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn
States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:28 AM
William Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them.
They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear.
While helping to consign us all to catastrophe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear.
While helping to consign us all to catastrophe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst
Directed by Thom Zimny
Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro
Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst
Directed by Thom Zimny
Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro
Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 29, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst
Directed by Thom Zimny
Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro
Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst
Directed by Thom Zimny
Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro
Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny
There may be a couple of (free) tickets left if you are quick. Looking forward to this. www.waterstones.com/events/the-g... call or email as link won’t work.
The Good Building Book: an Evening with Jon Broome and Nick Grant | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about The Good Building Book: an Evening with Jon Broome and Nick Grant today.
www.waterstones.com
January 31, 2026 at 8:33 AM
There may be a couple of (free) tickets left if you are quick. Looking forward to this. www.waterstones.com/events/the-g... call or email as link won’t work.
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What makes a building good?
My good friend @ecominimalnick.bsky.social and Jon Broom have distilled decades of experience between them to write this book.
Recommended for anyone interested in efficient, elegant sustainable design
My good friend @ecominimalnick.bsky.social and Jon Broom have distilled decades of experience between them to write this book.
Recommended for anyone interested in efficient, elegant sustainable design
January 10, 2026 at 8:30 AM
What makes a building good?
My good friend @ecominimalnick.bsky.social and Jon Broom have distilled decades of experience between them to write this book.
Recommended for anyone interested in efficient, elegant sustainable design
My good friend @ecominimalnick.bsky.social and Jon Broom have distilled decades of experience between them to write this book.
Recommended for anyone interested in efficient, elegant sustainable design
Finding The Nerve refreshing. The very least we can do is support independent journalism.
www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...
www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...
What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here
Peter Thiel's data surveillance company Palantir is powering Trump's ICE operation in the US. Carole Cadwalladr argues that the UK is next
www.thenerve.news
January 31, 2026 at 7:08 AM
Finding The Nerve refreshing. The very least we can do is support independent journalism.
www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...
www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...
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Trump's skin is thinner than a paper straw halfway through a McDonald's milkshake.
January 30, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Trump's skin is thinner than a paper straw halfway through a McDonald's milkshake.
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I can't say I watch Channel 4 too much these days, but this is certainly in my diary.
www.passivhaustrust.org.uk/news/detail/...
#Retrofit #EnergyEfficiency #Housing
www.passivhaustrust.org.uk/news/detail/...
#Retrofit #EnergyEfficiency #Housing
January 29, 2026 at 5:35 PM
I can't say I watch Channel 4 too much these days, but this is certainly in my diary.
www.passivhaustrust.org.uk/news/detail/...
#Retrofit #EnergyEfficiency #Housing
www.passivhaustrust.org.uk/news/detail/...
#Retrofit #EnergyEfficiency #Housing
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Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot
It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:18 AM
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
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The Atlantic finally catching up with what some of us have been saying for *years*
January 26, 2026 at 5:23 AM
The Atlantic finally catching up with what some of us have been saying for *years*
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The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
January 25, 2026 at 5:39 PM
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
Really enjoyed the film I Swear, very good. Thanks to @iandunt.bsky.social for heads up in his Substack post.
January 25, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Really enjoyed the film I Swear, very good. Thanks to @iandunt.bsky.social for heads up in his Substack post.