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@matthom.bsky.social
decentralist and sometime innovator - helping people improve resilience and sustainability in systems ... mostly food systems, also ecosystems, renewable energy systems, health, care, work & wellbeing systems. Cornwall Kernow 〓〓 born 323.9ppm
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🚨 In the fight for #FossilFreeFood, beware false solutions.
🧪‘Blue’ ammonia fertilizer = fossil gas
🧪‘Green’ ammonia = costly & energy-hungry
📲Digital ag = farmer surveillance & fossil-fuelled monoculture.
🌱There is another path #Agroecology
👉 ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...
#FuelToFork
🧪‘Blue’ ammonia fertilizer = fossil gas
🧪‘Green’ ammonia = costly & energy-hungry
📲Digital ag = farmer surveillance & fossil-fuelled monoculture.
🌱There is another path #Agroecology
👉 ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...
#FuelToFork
July 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
🚨 In the fight for #FossilFreeFood, beware false solutions.
🧪‘Blue’ ammonia fertilizer = fossil gas
🧪‘Green’ ammonia = costly & energy-hungry
📲Digital ag = farmer surveillance & fossil-fuelled monoculture.
🌱There is another path #Agroecology
👉 ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...
#FuelToFork
🧪‘Blue’ ammonia fertilizer = fossil gas
🧪‘Green’ ammonia = costly & energy-hungry
📲Digital ag = farmer surveillance & fossil-fuelled monoculture.
🌱There is another path #Agroecology
👉 ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...
#FuelToFork
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Fossil Free Farming Day, 30th June, Rosuick Farm, St Martins, Helston, TR126DZ.
Excellent line up!
#Farming #RegenAg #FossilFree #Cornwall #Devon @nelson.earth @matthom.bsky.social @organicrescent.bsky.social
Please share!
Excellent line up!
#Farming #RegenAg #FossilFree #Cornwall #Devon @nelson.earth @matthom.bsky.social @organicrescent.bsky.social
Please share!
May 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Fossil Free Farming Day, 30th June, Rosuick Farm, St Martins, Helston, TR126DZ.
Excellent line up!
#Farming #RegenAg #FossilFree #Cornwall #Devon @nelson.earth @matthom.bsky.social @organicrescent.bsky.social
Please share!
Excellent line up!
#Farming #RegenAg #FossilFree #Cornwall #Devon @nelson.earth @matthom.bsky.social @organicrescent.bsky.social
Please share!
@bkoskella.bsky.social slowly catching up :)
Currently hosting event on phages in #HouseofLords.
Crucial in age of exploding #antimicrobialresistance #AMR
@citizenphage.bsky.social @bsacandjac.bsky.social
Crucial in age of exploding #antimicrobialresistance #AMR
@citizenphage.bsky.social @bsacandjac.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
@bkoskella.bsky.social slowly catching up :)
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https://learndirt.com/community/
🌼 The internet needs a better place for gardeners - so we built one. 🌱 Join our free, friendly, open community for gardeners & growers. Anonymity welcome, good vibes always. Let’s grow! 💚 🌱
🌼 The internet needs a better place for gardeners - so we built one. 🌱 Join our free, friendly, open community for gardeners & growers. Anonymity welcome, good vibes always. Let’s grow! 💚 🌱
April 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
https://learndirt.com/community/
🌼 The internet needs a better place for gardeners - so we built one. 🌱 Join our free, friendly, open community for gardeners & growers. Anonymity welcome, good vibes always. Let’s grow! 💚 🌱
🌼 The internet needs a better place for gardeners - so we built one. 🌱 Join our free, friendly, open community for gardeners & growers. Anonymity welcome, good vibes always. Let’s grow! 💚 🌱
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From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement.
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
March 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement.
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
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Stop the Destruction of the World-Renowned #Dartington Forest Garden - Sign the Petition! chng.it/8qrST5J6hB ✊
#Agroforestry #Agroecology #RegenerativeFarming #Permaculture #Biodynamic #ClimateAction #RegenAg #Food
#Agroforestry #Agroecology #RegenerativeFarming #Permaculture #Biodynamic #ClimateAction #RegenAg #Food
Sign the Petition
Stop the Destruction of the World-Renowned Dartington Forest Garden
chng.it
March 16, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Stop the Destruction of the World-Renowned #Dartington Forest Garden - Sign the Petition! chng.it/8qrST5J6hB ✊
#Agroforestry #Agroecology #RegenerativeFarming #Permaculture #Biodynamic #ClimateAction #RegenAg #Food
#Agroforestry #Agroecology #RegenerativeFarming #Permaculture #Biodynamic #ClimateAction #RegenAg #Food
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I was on a panel at NYU Law School the other day, and as I was leaving I took a picture of this frieze they have in their entranceway.
I'm really digging opening my phone and re-reading these precepts. We need to take them to heart more than ever!!
I'm really digging opening my phone and re-reading these precepts. We need to take them to heart more than ever!!
March 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I was on a panel at NYU Law School the other day, and as I was leaving I took a picture of this frieze they have in their entranceway.
I'm really digging opening my phone and re-reading these precepts. We need to take them to heart more than ever!!
I'm really digging opening my phone and re-reading these precepts. We need to take them to heart more than ever!!
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The Greenhouse #envhum book talk series continues this semester with 7 more talks. All are posted on our website newnatures.org/greenhouse/
Here's a rundown of what is coming so that you can mark your calendars and attend the live talks (see links for info).
#envhist #ecocrit #animalhist
Here's a rundown of what is coming so that you can mark your calendars and attend the live talks (see links for info).
#envhist #ecocrit #animalhist
March 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The Greenhouse #envhum book talk series continues this semester with 7 more talks. All are posted on our website newnatures.org/greenhouse/
Here's a rundown of what is coming so that you can mark your calendars and attend the live talks (see links for info).
#envhist #ecocrit #animalhist
Here's a rundown of what is coming so that you can mark your calendars and attend the live talks (see links for info).
#envhist #ecocrit #animalhist
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Flip side of debate re ELMs and policy
I wrote this back in 2021- I stand by it* & think soon (4/6 years?) we'll have action because without a much better/fairer market, the food system won't work in a v climate stressed world
*wld change word subsidies to payments
www.sustainweb.org/blogs/feb21-...
I wrote this back in 2021- I stand by it* & think soon (4/6 years?) we'll have action because without a much better/fairer market, the food system won't work in a v climate stressed world
*wld change word subsidies to payments
www.sustainweb.org/blogs/feb21-...
Farmers need power and money; it’s time for ambitious thinking on trading systems and investment | Sustain
Farmers and growers need the power and money to enable the necessary decision-making, changes and investment for climate- and nature-friendly farming and high animal welfare. Let’s aim for a 25% marke...
www.sustainweb.org
March 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Flip side of debate re ELMs and policy
I wrote this back in 2021- I stand by it* & think soon (4/6 years?) we'll have action because without a much better/fairer market, the food system won't work in a v climate stressed world
*wld change word subsidies to payments
www.sustainweb.org/blogs/feb21-...
I wrote this back in 2021- I stand by it* & think soon (4/6 years?) we'll have action because without a much better/fairer market, the food system won't work in a v climate stressed world
*wld change word subsidies to payments
www.sustainweb.org/blogs/feb21-...
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It exists! My new book is out later this year with Reaktion Books.
If you are famous and/or a public intellectual and want to review it/provide a pull quote, DM.
#ProtestHistory #Commons
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...
If you are famous and/or a public intellectual and want to review it/provide a pull quote, DM.
#ProtestHistory #Commons
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...
Contested Commons | Reaktion Books
A radical history of England, Contested Commons is a gripping overview of increasingly restrictive policing and legislation against protest in public spaces. It tells the long history of contests over...
reaktionbooks.co.uk
March 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
It exists! My new book is out later this year with Reaktion Books.
If you are famous and/or a public intellectual and want to review it/provide a pull quote, DM.
#ProtestHistory #Commons
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...
If you are famous and/or a public intellectual and want to review it/provide a pull quote, DM.
#ProtestHistory #Commons
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...
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French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
March 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
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Illarionov says he learned of the Trump administration decision to cut off all military support to Ukraine on February 25th, before Zelensky's White House meeting on February 28th.
Zelensky's visit was then blamed retroactively in the March 4th announcement of the decision.
youtu.be/TRdkzNb5VI4
Zelensky's visit was then blamed retroactively in the March 4th announcement of the decision.
youtu.be/TRdkzNb5VI4
Trump decided to end military support for Ukraine BEFORE Zelensky's White House meeting - Illarionov
YouTube video by The Racecar Driver
youtu.be
March 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Illarionov says he learned of the Trump administration decision to cut off all military support to Ukraine on February 25th, before Zelensky's White House meeting on February 28th.
Zelensky's visit was then blamed retroactively in the March 4th announcement of the decision.
youtu.be/TRdkzNb5VI4
Zelensky's visit was then blamed retroactively in the March 4th announcement of the decision.
youtu.be/TRdkzNb5VI4
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THE FASTEST GROWING HEAT PUMP MARKET IN THE WORLD:
The UK heat pump market grew by 63% in 2024.
As far as I know it is currently the fastest growing heat pump market in the world.
The UK heat pump market grew by 63% in 2024.
As far as I know it is currently the fastest growing heat pump market in the world.
March 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
THE FASTEST GROWING HEAT PUMP MARKET IN THE WORLD:
The UK heat pump market grew by 63% in 2024.
As far as I know it is currently the fastest growing heat pump market in the world.
The UK heat pump market grew by 63% in 2024.
As far as I know it is currently the fastest growing heat pump market in the world.
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I’m definitely in the highly unstable category
Only a minority of employees have ‘extremely’ or ‘highly’ stable earnings across the year.
Read 'Unstable pay' now to learn more 👉 buff.ly/o82JiA4
Read 'Unstable pay' now to learn more 👉 buff.ly/o82JiA4
March 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I’m definitely in the highly unstable category
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🌍 This year's World Obesity Day is shining a spotlight on the fact it's our food systems - not people - that need to change!
Policymakers need to transform our food environment by increasing the affordability, availability and appeal of healthy food.
Learn more: ➡️ bit.ly/3PR0Gal
#BrokenPlate
Policymakers need to transform our food environment by increasing the affordability, availability and appeal of healthy food.
Learn more: ➡️ bit.ly/3PR0Gal
#BrokenPlate
March 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🌍 This year's World Obesity Day is shining a spotlight on the fact it's our food systems - not people - that need to change!
Policymakers need to transform our food environment by increasing the affordability, availability and appeal of healthy food.
Learn more: ➡️ bit.ly/3PR0Gal
#BrokenPlate
Policymakers need to transform our food environment by increasing the affordability, availability and appeal of healthy food.
Learn more: ➡️ bit.ly/3PR0Gal
#BrokenPlate
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I briefly interrupt your feed of constant US-based doom and/or gloom to remind you that in other countries, there's some pretty cool stuff happening on the food / agriculture / nature / climate policy front at the national level, and that Denmark recently took a step that could inspire others.
Denmark’s Groundbreaking Agriculture Climate Policy Sets Strong Example for the World
Denmark’s Green Tripartite Agreement imposes taxes on livestock, restores forests and peatlands, and pays farmers to reduce pollution.
www.wri.org
March 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I briefly interrupt your feed of constant US-based doom and/or gloom to remind you that in other countries, there's some pretty cool stuff happening on the food / agriculture / nature / climate policy front at the national level, and that Denmark recently took a step that could inspire others.
Well it worked very well 😎 Yours was the outstanding presentation of the day!
When you're simultaneously composing a presentation on Sunday night and procrastinating on social media. Now, what to put on the next slide, that's the conundrum.
March 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Well it worked very well 😎 Yours was the outstanding presentation of the day!
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The BBC has once again caught Drax burning wood from primary forest in Canada, previously untouched by man, a huge carbon store and obvs prime wildlife habitat.
Drax seems to be reducing its use of such wood, but also hiding the extent to which it used it in previous years – contrary to regulations
Drax seems to be reducing its use of such wood, but also hiding the extent to which it used it in previous years – contrary to regulations
Drax power station's further reporting failure exposed by BBC News
Drax, which burns wood pellets, is required to report where it sources its wood from.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 9, 2025 at 9:18 AM
The BBC has once again caught Drax burning wood from primary forest in Canada, previously untouched by man, a huge carbon store and obvs prime wildlife habitat.
Drax seems to be reducing its use of such wood, but also hiding the extent to which it used it in previous years – contrary to regulations
Drax seems to be reducing its use of such wood, but also hiding the extent to which it used it in previous years – contrary to regulations
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I can be as critical as anyone of the government's occasionally muddled message on growth but Look! At! This! Chart!! Anything they've done pales next to this GIGANTIC UNFORCED ERROR COMMITTED IN 2016!
(fagpacket maths follows)
on.ft.com/4hzyvbJ
(fagpacket maths follows)
on.ft.com/4hzyvbJ
January 29, 2025 at 6:56 AM
I can be as critical as anyone of the government's occasionally muddled message on growth but Look! At! This! Chart!! Anything they've done pales next to this GIGANTIC UNFORCED ERROR COMMITTED IN 2016!
(fagpacket maths follows)
on.ft.com/4hzyvbJ
(fagpacket maths follows)
on.ft.com/4hzyvbJ
Surprised Prof. Sir Chris Pissarides say UK's #AI future is #urban and tell us there's no #tech in Cornwall!! #mansplain Please check TechSouthWest analysis of #SouthWest #local #tech #clusters @ifowa.bsky.social @ifow.org @universityofexeter.bsky.social
www.techsouthwest.co.uk/wp-content/u...
www.techsouthwest.co.uk/wp-content/u...
January 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Surprised Prof. Sir Chris Pissarides say UK's #AI future is #urban and tell us there's no #tech in Cornwall!! #mansplain Please check TechSouthWest analysis of #SouthWest #local #tech #clusters @ifowa.bsky.social @ifow.org @universityofexeter.bsky.social
www.techsouthwest.co.uk/wp-content/u...
www.techsouthwest.co.uk/wp-content/u...
#PissaridesReview final report launch event today is fantastically #decentralised - thankyou @ifow.org @universityofexeter.bsky.social
Great to have a properly #decentralised launch in #London #Edinburgh #Cardiff and #Cornwall Surely the future of #AI in the UK will also be #decentralised??
Great to have a properly #decentralised launch in #London #Edinburgh #Cardiff and #Cornwall Surely the future of #AI in the UK will also be #decentralised??
January 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
#PissaridesReview final report launch event today is fantastically #decentralised - thankyou @ifow.org @universityofexeter.bsky.social
Great to have a properly #decentralised launch in #London #Edinburgh #Cardiff and #Cornwall Surely the future of #AI in the UK will also be #decentralised??
Great to have a properly #decentralised launch in #London #Edinburgh #Cardiff and #Cornwall Surely the future of #AI in the UK will also be #decentralised??
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There is an urgent need for government at all levels to adopt a place-based perspective on productivity growth. Read @bartvanark.bsky.social and @andywestwood.bsky.social's blog on the #RegionalProductivityAgenda, released as part of #NationalProductivityWeek www.productivity.ac.uk/news/the-pro...
The Productivity Agenda Needs to be Joined Up and Scaled Up Across Regions - The Productivity Institute
Professors Bart van Ark and Andy Westwood write about the need for government at all levels to adopt a place-based perspective on productivity growth.
www.productivity.ac.uk
January 27, 2025 at 8:20 AM
There is an urgent need for government at all levels to adopt a place-based perspective on productivity growth. Read @bartvanark.bsky.social and @andywestwood.bsky.social's blog on the #RegionalProductivityAgenda, released as part of #NationalProductivityWeek www.productivity.ac.uk/news/the-pro...