Peter Orr
@orrtknpp.bsky.social
Former environmental professional (retired) living in Cumbria interested in community energy nature history philosophy
UK commons committee report on housing and nature publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cm...
" In most cases housing delivery is delayed or challenged due to unclear and conflicting policies, land banking and skills shortages...."
" In most cases housing delivery is delayed or challenged due to unclear and conflicting policies, land banking and skills shortages...."
Environmental sustainability and housing growth
Report of the Environmental Audit Committee
publications.parliament.uk
November 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
UK commons committee report on housing and nature publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cm...
" In most cases housing delivery is delayed or challenged due to unclear and conflicting policies, land banking and skills shortages...."
" In most cases housing delivery is delayed or challenged due to unclear and conflicting policies, land banking and skills shortages...."
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🔊 Ready to be part of something incredible in 2026? 🌳 Join us for a wild week of community, purpose and connection in the #ScottishHighlands.
Give back, reconnect, and meet others who share your passion for a wilder world. Head to our website for details 👉 treesforlife.org.uk/support/volu...
Give back, reconnect, and meet others who share your passion for a wilder world. Head to our website for details 👉 treesforlife.org.uk/support/volu...
November 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
🔊 Ready to be part of something incredible in 2026? 🌳 Join us for a wild week of community, purpose and connection in the #ScottishHighlands.
Give back, reconnect, and meet others who share your passion for a wilder world. Head to our website for details 👉 treesforlife.org.uk/support/volu...
Give back, reconnect, and meet others who share your passion for a wilder world. Head to our website for details 👉 treesforlife.org.uk/support/volu...
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We have a very exciting and rewarding opportunity for a Project Officer to join us to help create England's highest nature reserve - Skiddaw Forest 🌳🌳
Apply below ⬇️
www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/jobs/skiddaw-forest-project-officer
#Cumbria #LakeDistrict #ConservationCareers #SkiddawForest
Apply below ⬇️
www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/jobs/skiddaw-forest-project-officer
#Cumbria #LakeDistrict #ConservationCareers #SkiddawForest
October 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
We have a very exciting and rewarding opportunity for a Project Officer to join us to help create England's highest nature reserve - Skiddaw Forest 🌳🌳
Apply below ⬇️
www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/jobs/skiddaw-forest-project-officer
#Cumbria #LakeDistrict #ConservationCareers #SkiddawForest
Apply below ⬇️
www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/jobs/skiddaw-forest-project-officer
#Cumbria #LakeDistrict #ConservationCareers #SkiddawForest
Good overview of future farming change in the UK and the gradual adoption of the 'polluter pays' principle dieterhelm.co.uk/publications...
The future of British farming - Dieter Helm
Farmers have recently been complaining about a lot, and in some cases with good cause. Brexit has created lots of practical difficulties, without delivering all the benefits they were promised. Migran...
dieterhelm.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Good overview of future farming change in the UK and the gradual adoption of the 'polluter pays' principle dieterhelm.co.uk/publications...
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Our "Guidelines for Rewilding" published with IUCN CEM are now live! portals.iucn.org/library/node...
Guidelines for rewilding | IUCN Library System
portals.iucn.org
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Our "Guidelines for Rewilding" published with IUCN CEM are now live! portals.iucn.org/library/node...
Half UK top fish stocks ‘critically low’, ‘overexploited’ or both – EnvironmentJournal
environmentjournal.online/climate-chan...
environmentjournal.online/climate-chan...
Half UK top fish stocks ‘critically low’, ‘overexploited’ or both
A new report offers the most comprehensive analysis of British fisheries as an independent coastal state post-Brexit. Published by Oceana UK, the research casts the rapidly declining health of the Br...
environmentjournal.online
October 8, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Half UK top fish stocks ‘critically low’, ‘overexploited’ or both – EnvironmentJournal
environmentjournal.online/climate-chan...
environmentjournal.online/climate-chan...
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I'm grateful for this conversation about our new book, Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future. As fans of Future Histories might expect, Jan pushed us on questions of economic planning and institutional design.
A new episode of Future Histories!
I talk to Kai Heron (@kaiheron.bsky.social), Keir Milburn (@kmilb.bsky.social) and Bertie Russell (@bertrussell.bsky.socia) about their new book ‘Radical Abundance.’ (@abundance-org.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social)
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
I talk to Kai Heron (@kaiheron.bsky.social), Keir Milburn (@kmilb.bsky.social) and Bertie Russell (@bertrussell.bsky.socia) about their new book ‘Radical Abundance.’ (@abundance-org.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social)
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
September 28, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I'm grateful for this conversation about our new book, Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future. As fans of Future Histories might expect, Jan pushed us on questions of economic planning and institutional design.
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Harms of introduced large herbivores outweigh benefits to native biodiversity: " We therefore advise caution regarding the intentional introduction of large mammalian herbivores for conservation purposes (rewilding, assisted colonization) [...]" 🌐🌎 #bioinvasions www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Harms of introduced large herbivores outweigh benefits to native biodiversity - Nature Communications
Using impact assessment frameworks, this study shows that the introduction of large mammalian herbivores outside their native range has predominantly caused negative impacts on native biodiversity glo...
www.nature.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Harms of introduced large herbivores outweigh benefits to native biodiversity: " We therefore advise caution regarding the intentional introduction of large mammalian herbivores for conservation purposes (rewilding, assisted colonization) [...]" 🌐🌎 #bioinvasions www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Interested? Read our 3-page manifesto for more! 👀 communityenergy.scot/wp-content/u...
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Our 3rd manifesto ask is to use planning legislation to rule out new renewables and storage developments that don’t provide shared ownership or community benefit funds at a fair level. ⚖️
Planning decisions on projects up to 50MW are devolved, and Scotland should be using these powers. 🧑⚖️📜
Planning decisions on projects up to 50MW are devolved, and Scotland should be using these powers. 🧑⚖️📜
September 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Interested? Read our 3-page manifesto for more! 👀 communityenergy.scot/wp-content/u...
@bellacaledonia.bsky.social
@platform1983.bsky.social
@lesleyriddoch.bsky.social
@regeninsight.bsky.social
@fraserjfstewart.bsky.social
@dangear.bsky.social
@sccscot.bsky.social
@bellacaledonia.bsky.social
@platform1983.bsky.social
@lesleyriddoch.bsky.social
@regeninsight.bsky.social
@fraserjfstewart.bsky.social
@dangear.bsky.social
@sccscot.bsky.social
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THIS is why fossil fuel interests are pouring money into Reform.
Wind and solar are the perfect renewable power pairing in Britain💨 ☀️
98% of the time, it is either windy or sunny. Particularly windy days are often cloudier, while very sunny days are usually calmer.
A match made in… Britain! 🤝
https://loom.ly/-pzxBgQ
98% of the time, it is either windy or sunny. Particularly windy days are often cloudier, while very sunny days are usually calmer.
A match made in… Britain! 🤝
https://loom.ly/-pzxBgQ
August 30, 2025 at 10:37 AM
THIS is why fossil fuel interests are pouring money into Reform.
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Morecambe, by Bradford-born Fred Cecil Jones, 1891-1966 (private collection). #NorthernArt
July 24, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Morecambe, by Bradford-born Fred Cecil Jones, 1891-1966 (private collection). #NorthernArt
World leading environmental science research and staff don't align with US politics (I'm sad for the people affected) www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
EPA eliminates its scientific research arm
The move to dismantle the Office of Research and Development comes as Trump officials cut the agency’s total staff by 23 percent.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
World leading environmental science research and staff don't align with US politics (I'm sad for the people affected) www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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My good friend @helendecruz.net is currently in hospice after a long battle with cancer, and has written this beautiful piece reflecting on what is truly of value in life.
helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-...
helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-...
Can’t take it with you
I am in hospice care and reflecting a lot on what a good life is.
helendecruz.substack.com
May 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
My good friend @helendecruz.net is currently in hospice after a long battle with cancer, and has written this beautiful piece reflecting on what is truly of value in life.
helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-...
helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-...
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The energy at the edges - a new post with some thoughts on the vitality at the edges of the system.
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medium.com/@jamestplunk...
The energy at the edges
The system is dying from the middle, but there’s vitality at the periphery
medium.com
April 17, 2025 at 6:43 AM
The energy at the edges - a new post with some thoughts on the vitality at the edges of the system.
medium.com/@jamestplunk...
medium.com/@jamestplunk...
The least ‘integrated’ part of British society isn’t the immigrants – it’s the elite | Andy Beckett www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The least ‘integrated’ part of British society isn’t the immigrants – it’s the elite | Andy Beckett
Politicians and the rightwing press talk about integration in a selective and politically loaded way. The reality is quite different, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The least ‘integrated’ part of British society isn’t the immigrants – it’s the elite | Andy Beckett www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...
Last year's (temporary) budget increase of 20% for EPA expected to go but the request looks to reduce the budget by a further 34%
Last year's (temporary) budget increase of 20% for EPA expected to go but the request looks to reduce the budget by a further 34%
EPA Budget Would See Deep Cuts Under Trump’s Spending Plan (1)
The EPA’s budget would be cut by more than half under President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2026 budget request, released Friday.
news.bloomberglaw.com
May 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...
Last year's (temporary) budget increase of 20% for EPA expected to go but the request looks to reduce the budget by a further 34%
Last year's (temporary) budget increase of 20% for EPA expected to go but the request looks to reduce the budget by a further 34%
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Hi! We are Futureproof Cumbria. You may have known us as Cumbria Action for Sustainability- but today we launched our new name and brand. Our mission is to help people communities and organisations tackle climate change by promoting action and supporting change. futureproofcumbria.org.uk
April 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Hi! We are Futureproof Cumbria. You may have known us as Cumbria Action for Sustainability- but today we launched our new name and brand. Our mission is to help people communities and organisations tackle climate change by promoting action and supporting change. futureproofcumbria.org.uk
Regime Change in the West? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... excellent summary of where we are and the absence of alternatives - sobering and realistic
Perry Anderson · Regime Change in the West?
Where amid this turmoil does neoliberalism stand? In emergency conditions it has been forced to take measures –...
www.lrb.co.uk
April 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Regime Change in the West? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... excellent summary of where we are and the absence of alternatives - sobering and realistic
An open letter setting out the important environment justice work done by the #usepa and suggested actions to correct the damage caused by their abrupt cancellation open.substack.com/pub/environm...
An open letter from EPA staff to the American public
“We cannot stand by and allow this to happen. We need to hold this administration accountable.”
open.substack.com
March 27, 2025 at 6:35 AM
An open letter setting out the important environment justice work done by the #usepa and suggested actions to correct the damage caused by their abrupt cancellation open.substack.com/pub/environm...
Important to take notice
🚨 Mythbusting #LongCovid with Dr Amir Khan🚨
Long Covid is real. It’s serious. And it’s affecting millions.
On #LongCovidAwarenessDay, #DrAmirKhan joins us to bust harmful myths.
Watch, learn, and share—because the more we talk about Long Covid, the harder it is to ignore.
Long Covid is real. It’s serious. And it’s affecting millions.
On #LongCovidAwarenessDay, #DrAmirKhan joins us to bust harmful myths.
Watch, learn, and share—because the more we talk about Long Covid, the harder it is to ignore.
March 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Important to take notice
Exciting times ahead for Morecambe #edenproject www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/business/ede...
Eden Project Morecambe hits major milestone with appointment of first class project director and design team
The Eden Project has announced John Pye as its project director for Eden Project Morecambe and the start of work by an external design team.
www.lancasterguardian.co.uk
March 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Exciting times ahead for Morecambe #edenproject www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/business/ede...
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Next was an important panel on Britain's inequality crisis with Danny Dorling, Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, Kitty Stewart, and Poly Toynbee at the LSE www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWll... (12/13)
Peak injustice: solving Britain's inequality crisis | LSE Event
YouTube video by LSE
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February 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Next was an important panel on Britain's inequality crisis with Danny Dorling, Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, Kitty Stewart, and Poly Toynbee at the LSE www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWll... (12/13)
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Britain is now following a developing country economic model – and we know where that leads | Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah
Britain is now following a developing country economic model – and we know where that leads | Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah
Selling off assets to foreign owners, deregulating markets, and liberalising financial services only leads to inequality and instability, says Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, chief executive of the New Economics Foundation
www.theguardian.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Britain is now following a developing country economic model – and we know where that leads | Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah