@richsulley.bsky.social
Snr Research Fellow in Sustainability Policy.
The Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures.
https://substack.com/@richsulley
Sustainability, bikes, birds, grumpiness
The Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures.
https://substack.com/@richsulley
Sustainability, bikes, birds, grumpiness
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frustrating to see climate communicators pivot to talking about tech solutions immediately after calling out people in power for letting climate deniers get away with it.
people know the solutions are there. they don't need that kind of reassurance.
they need moral courage and pride in the fight.
people know the solutions are there. they don't need that kind of reassurance.
they need moral courage and pride in the fight.
November 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
frustrating to see climate communicators pivot to talking about tech solutions immediately after calling out people in power for letting climate deniers get away with it.
people know the solutions are there. they don't need that kind of reassurance.
they need moral courage and pride in the fight.
people know the solutions are there. they don't need that kind of reassurance.
they need moral courage and pride in the fight.
Slightly too long and slightly too self indulgent perhaps, but what do you do when someone says something about you that isn't true?
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Doing Politics Honestly
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I don't think the investment in Doncaster Sheffield Airport is the right thing to do, I’ve been open about my reasoning behind that. There are many Linkedin posts ...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Slightly too long and slightly too self indulgent perhaps, but what do you do when someone says something about you that isn't true?
www.linkedin.com/pulse/doing-...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/doing-...
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Access the slides from Our Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference: A vital resource for anyone working on climate transitions, #ClimatePolicy and equity.
Find them here: tyndall.ac.uk/conference-s...
#AcademicSky #CriticalDecade #ClimateAction #ClimateResearch
Find them here: tyndall.ac.uk/conference-s...
#AcademicSky #CriticalDecade #ClimateAction #ClimateResearch
Conference Slides: Our Critical Decade for Climate Action
Access all the conference slides from the plenaries, sessions, keynotes and masterclasses at our Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference in September
tyndall.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Access the slides from Our Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference: A vital resource for anyone working on climate transitions, #ClimatePolicy and equity.
Find them here: tyndall.ac.uk/conference-s...
#AcademicSky #CriticalDecade #ClimateAction #ClimateResearch
Find them here: tyndall.ac.uk/conference-s...
#AcademicSky #CriticalDecade #ClimateAction #ClimateResearch
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I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
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𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀! Want to join @chrisgpackham.bsky.social in supporting the National Emergency Briefing on Climate & Nature?
🖋️ 𝙋𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙣 𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 urging MPs to attend: lnkd.in/ecGDM3Ry
🖋️ 𝙋𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙣 𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 urging MPs to attend: lnkd.in/ecGDM3Ry
We're delighted that tireless advocate for the natural world, @chrisgpackham.bsky.social CBE, will be opening the National Emergency Briefing in Westminster Central Hall on 27th November.
Chris speaking with @bbclaurak.bsky.social earlier👇
Please make sure your MP is attending: nebriefing.org
#NEB
Chris speaking with @bbclaurak.bsky.social earlier👇
Please make sure your MP is attending: nebriefing.org
#NEB
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀! Want to join @chrisgpackham.bsky.social in supporting the National Emergency Briefing on Climate & Nature?
🖋️ 𝙋𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙣 𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 urging MPs to attend: lnkd.in/ecGDM3Ry
🖋️ 𝙋𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙣 𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 urging MPs to attend: lnkd.in/ecGDM3Ry
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All eyes on #Belém 👀 #COP30Brazil starts today!
World leaders, scientists, activists, & policymakers are in Brazil to try and negotiate further efforts to tackle the #ClimateCrisis and we are sending 3 delegates from @sheffielduni.bsky.social to join them!
Find out more ⬇️
tinyurl.com/yna4pxc8
World leaders, scientists, activists, & policymakers are in Brazil to try and negotiate further efforts to tackle the #ClimateCrisis and we are sending 3 delegates from @sheffielduni.bsky.social to join them!
Find out more ⬇️
tinyurl.com/yna4pxc8
The University of Sheffield delegates heading to COP30 in Brazil
We are very excited to be sending delegates to COP30 in Belém, Brazil. The University of Sheffield is one of only a small number of UK universities invited to send official observers to take part in t...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
All eyes on #Belém 👀 #COP30Brazil starts today!
World leaders, scientists, activists, & policymakers are in Brazil to try and negotiate further efforts to tackle the #ClimateCrisis and we are sending 3 delegates from @sheffielduni.bsky.social to join them!
Find out more ⬇️
tinyurl.com/yna4pxc8
World leaders, scientists, activists, & policymakers are in Brazil to try and negotiate further efforts to tackle the #ClimateCrisis and we are sending 3 delegates from @sheffielduni.bsky.social to join them!
Find out more ⬇️
tinyurl.com/yna4pxc8
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
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“If the constellations had been named in the twentieth century, I suppose we would see bicycles.”
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
"Why should our experience at 10 kilometers an hour constrain the laws of nature at 300,000 kilometers a second?"
-Carl Sagan, astronomer, planetary scientist, and science communicator
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Carl Sagan!
November 9 (1934-1996)
-Carl Sagan, astronomer, planetary scientist, and science communicator
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Carl Sagan!
November 9 (1934-1996)
November 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“If the constellations had been named in the twentieth century, I suppose we would see bicycles.”
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
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www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/sometimes-it... I wrote last week about two villains and one hero in the battle between truth and lies. Well here’s another hero - the Sheffield Tribune, one of the Mill stable of independent news sites, had the courage to publish an important story despite legal threats..
Sometimes it’s worth the risk
“We will definitely bring proceedings for Defamation and Malicious Falsehood if you publish such complete and malicious lies.”
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/sometimes-it... I wrote last week about two villains and one hero in the battle between truth and lies. Well here’s another hero - the Sheffield Tribune, one of the Mill stable of independent news sites, had the courage to publish an important story despite legal threats..
Stop burning Stuff!
Drax is in the news again for burning wood from old growth forests in British Columbia in a power station near Selby, whilst being subsidised to do so by charges on our electricity bills.
www.linkedin.com/posts/richar...
Drax is in the news again for burning wood from old growth forests in British Columbia in a power station near Selby, whilst being subsidised to do so by charges on our electricity bills.
www.linkedin.com/posts/richar...
The Burning Question: is biomass really sustainable? | Richard Sulley
𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗕𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗳𝗳.
Drax is in the news again for burning wood from old growth forests in British Columbia in a power station near Selby, whilst being subsidised to do so by charges on our electricit...
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November 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Stop burning Stuff!
Drax is in the news again for burning wood from old growth forests in British Columbia in a power station near Selby, whilst being subsidised to do so by charges on our electricity bills.
www.linkedin.com/posts/richar...
Drax is in the news again for burning wood from old growth forests in British Columbia in a power station near Selby, whilst being subsidised to do so by charges on our electricity bills.
www.linkedin.com/posts/richar...
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Good folk doing the right thing being treated like extremists.
#climate
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
#climate
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Jailed UK climate protesters facing conditions reserved for extremists on release
Exclusive: Just Stop Oil activist was banned from attending gatherings, including meeting a friend in a cafe, without permission
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Good folk doing the right thing being treated like extremists.
#climate
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
#climate
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Happy Mondays - Step On (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by London Records
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November 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄
Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
1/15
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Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
1/15
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November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄
Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
1/15
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Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
1/15
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Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Which one is more English?
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Did you know, standing near 67 bananas could give you a very low level waste (VLLW) dose of radiation! ☢️
That was just one of the facts shared at today's ISAC event.
Five Grantham Scholars gave insightful presentations on their research covering everything from radioactive waste to carbon capture.
That was just one of the facts shared at today's ISAC event.
Five Grantham Scholars gave insightful presentations on their research covering everything from radioactive waste to carbon capture.
November 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Did you know, standing near 67 bananas could give you a very low level waste (VLLW) dose of radiation! ☢️
That was just one of the facts shared at today's ISAC event.
Five Grantham Scholars gave insightful presentations on their research covering everything from radioactive waste to carbon capture.
That was just one of the facts shared at today's ISAC event.
Five Grantham Scholars gave insightful presentations on their research covering everything from radioactive waste to carbon capture.
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Street food vendors in #Indonesia risk being left behind as the country moves toward a #GreenTransition.
Grantham Scholar, Eva Andriani, travelled to Indonesia to conduct participatory research with vendors to develop a financial literacy training programme.
Read her story ⬇️
tinyurl.com/2fv89v25
Grantham Scholar, Eva Andriani, travelled to Indonesia to conduct participatory research with vendors to develop a financial literacy training programme.
Read her story ⬇️
tinyurl.com/2fv89v25
Empowering street vendors in Indonesia through a sustainability-integrated financial literacy programme
Earlier this year our Grantham Scholar, Eva Andriani, travelled to Indonesia to conduct some participatory research with a community of street vendors. We spoke to Eva to find out about her experience...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Street food vendors in #Indonesia risk being left behind as the country moves toward a #GreenTransition.
Grantham Scholar, Eva Andriani, travelled to Indonesia to conduct participatory research with vendors to develop a financial literacy training programme.
Read her story ⬇️
tinyurl.com/2fv89v25
Grantham Scholar, Eva Andriani, travelled to Indonesia to conduct participatory research with vendors to develop a financial literacy training programme.
Read her story ⬇️
tinyurl.com/2fv89v25
We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.
"Coun David Nevett, cabinet member for adults, wellbeing and culture, said: there was “no other plan” to bring jobs and investment to Doncaster on the scale projected for DSA."
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/transpo...
"Coun David Nevett, cabinet member for adults, wellbeing and culture, said: there was “no other plan” to bring jobs and investment to Doncaster on the scale projected for DSA."
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/transpo...
Doncaster Sheffield Airport: Airport faces “one final hurdle” after funding accepted
Political leadership of the City of Doncaster Council have voted to accept hundreds of millions in public funds to reopen Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA).
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 8:24 AM
We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.
"Coun David Nevett, cabinet member for adults, wellbeing and culture, said: there was “no other plan” to bring jobs and investment to Doncaster on the scale projected for DSA."
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/transpo...
"Coun David Nevett, cabinet member for adults, wellbeing and culture, said: there was “no other plan” to bring jobs and investment to Doncaster on the scale projected for DSA."
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/transpo...
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Want to apply your skills to help tackle the #climate crisis?
Unsure where to start?
Check out workonclimate.org
"Our experts help you navigate your path toward contributing to regeneration — and offer a way for you to do the same for others."
Unsure where to start?
Check out workonclimate.org
"Our experts help you navigate your path toward contributing to regeneration — and offer a way for you to do the same for others."
Work on Climate | Mobilizing Professionals to Build a Regenerative World
Join a global community of professionals turning every field into a force for regeneration. Discover your power in the climate work movement.
workonclimate.org
November 5, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Want to apply your skills to help tackle the #climate crisis?
Unsure where to start?
Check out workonclimate.org
"Our experts help you navigate your path toward contributing to regeneration — and offer a way for you to do the same for others."
Unsure where to start?
Check out workonclimate.org
"Our experts help you navigate your path toward contributing to regeneration — and offer a way for you to do the same for others."
Sitting reading umbrella reviews in the Guardian, i'm not sure i was ever cool, but i was cooler than this surely?
www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...
www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...
The best umbrellas in the UK for staying dry in the wind and rain – tested on a 517m hilltop
Our reviewer braved Peak District downpours to see which brollies – from budget to mini to windproof – stayed standing
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Sitting reading umbrella reviews in the Guardian, i'm not sure i was ever cool, but i was cooler than this surely?
www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...
www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...
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Every MP now has a personal video invitation to the National Emergency Briefing.
This is about ensuring all policymakers are fully informed.
Find and send your MP’s invite:
#neb #timetostepup #NationalEmergencyBriefing
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
This is about ensuring all policymakers are fully informed.
Find and send your MP’s invite:
#neb #timetostepup #NationalEmergencyBriefing
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
October 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Every MP now has a personal video invitation to the National Emergency Briefing.
This is about ensuring all policymakers are fully informed.
Find and send your MP’s invite:
#neb #timetostepup #NationalEmergencyBriefing
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
This is about ensuring all policymakers are fully informed.
Find and send your MP’s invite:
#neb #timetostepup #NationalEmergencyBriefing
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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October 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Superb summary notes from the conference, and for those bored on a Friday afternoon a quick game of Where's Wally spotting me in that picture
The briefing notes from our Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference are now online, with more being added all the time - covering transitions, coalitions and scaling climate solutions. Read the summaries and insights: tyndall.ac.uk/reports/brie...
#CriticalDecade #ClimateAction #Tyndall25UEA
#CriticalDecade #ClimateAction #Tyndall25UEA
Briefing notes for sessions at Our Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference - Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
These briefing notes were prepared to accompany each session of the Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference, held in September 2025.
tyndall.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Superb summary notes from the conference, and for those bored on a Friday afternoon a quick game of Where's Wally spotting me in that picture
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I’ve written an entire book showing how centrist economists & techno-optimists provide a permission structure for climate propaganda, creating an overlapping false consensus that we can keep using fossil-fuels and still deal w climate change anyway.
Here’s a good example of that dynamic 👇
Here’s a good example of that dynamic 👇
October 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I’ve written an entire book showing how centrist economists & techno-optimists provide a permission structure for climate propaganda, creating an overlapping false consensus that we can keep using fossil-fuels and still deal w climate change anyway.
Here’s a good example of that dynamic 👇
Here’s a good example of that dynamic 👇
