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environmentalist
Bach devotee
trustee of Charleston
resident of Lewes
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Ocean with David Attenborough review: Age has done little to quell the naturalist’s intellectual curiosity and childlike wonder – The Irish Times
Ocean with David Attenborough review: Age has done little to quell the naturalist’s intellectual curiosity and childlike wonder
This engaging portrait of sea-life is being released around the world on his 99th birthday
www.irishtimes.com
May 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Today, the @ec.europa.eu is hosting an event on EU farming

Yet, food systems are not part of the discussion

We risk making our policies narrow & unable to ensure decent livelihoods for ALL farmers & affordable, healthy diets 4 people on a thriving 🌍

The EU must #ThinkFoodSystems!

#EUAgriVision
May 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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If you'd like to stay informed about EU Food Policy Coalition participants' activities around food, farming, fisheries & aquaculture policy issues ... we've got you covered!
A must-follow #starterpack 🤓👇

(and please shout in case we forgot someone...🤔)
go.bsky.app/6fSgYhc
#FoodSystems
April 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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If you can pull off a 'Walküre', there's no greater experience in the opera house. And between them director Barrie Kosky, conductor Antonio Pappano, singing actors and orchestra absolutely did. theartsdesk.com/opera/die-wa...
Die Walküre, Royal Opera review - total music drama
Wagner’s universe, in the second of his Ring operas which brings semi-humans on board to challenge the gods, matches exaltation and misery, terror and tragedy – and throws down a gauntlet to singers, ...
theartsdesk.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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"Humble Francis: A memory of transcendent humanity in Rome"
Others, more knowledgeable than me, will write memorials today. I want to share a single detail from one day in Rome, in January 2018.
snyder.substack.com/p/humble-fra...
Humble Francis
A memory of transcendent humanity in Rome
snyder.substack.com
April 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Listen to @worldresources.bsky.social's Ke Wang on @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social's Circular Economy Show. Learn:

⚡ Why the circular economy is important in the energy transition

⚡ How this is fundamentally driven by economics and competitiveness

www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/podcasts/ep-...
April 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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New @wriclimate.bsky.social research finds that human behavior change can meaningfully cut #greenhousegas emissions and fight #climatechange — but without policy & industry support, only a small fraction of this is possible in practice.

Read more: go.wri.org/climate-impact-bl
April 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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☀️Parts of India are facing temperatures up to 40°C (104°F) this week, with early-season heatwaves becoming more frequent and intense.

♨️But some solutions can help cool cities down, even as temperatures climb. Learn about the ways cities can get cooler🔗 go.wri.org/cool-cities-bl
April 10, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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📝A draft deal was struck through the International Maritime Organization, requiring ships to pay a fee based on their fuel mix carbon intensity.

❌🌎While a step forward, the deal falls short of the ambition the climate crisis demands, says WRI Ocean's @tomolamola.bsky.social: bit.ly/4ihtTa6
April 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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“At 3C of global heating, climate damage cannot be insured against, covered by governments, or adapted to. That means no more mortgages or new real estate devt, no long-term investment, no financial stability. The financial sector as we know it ceases to function and capitalism ceases to be viable.”
Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
www.theguardian.com
April 4, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Incredibly beautiful. And yet never nostalgic or sentimental.
Perfect book to read on a long Easter weekend.
@herdyshepherd.bsky.social
April 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
@willdalrymple.bsky.social william

am rereading your wonderful book

does Sabeel the charity still exist?
April 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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3/3 To conclude our series on Ireland & Empire, Anita and William are joined by the brilliant @fotoole.bsky.social , author of We Don’t Know Ourselves, to reflect on how Irish society has transformed since the 1950s, and how the country’s colonial past informs its future. @empirepoduk.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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This is Europe's fault
JD Vance just broke apart the College Football Playoff National Championship trophy on live television.
April 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
super novel
April 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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The president’s economically ruinous trade war will also be a disaster for America’s role in the fight against climate change. I wrote about it for @nytopinion.nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
Opinion | Poof! There Goes America’s Competitive Advantage in a Warming World
The Trump administration’s governance — and the president’s unhinged trade war on the entire world — has hurt America’s ability to meet climate goals.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
holiday reading
April 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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I just read "Golden Hill" by Francis Spufford. What a glorious, engrossing, hilarious (when it wants to be) novel.
October 6, 2024 at 1:24 PM
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Praise in The Guardian from Francis Spufford for John Crowley, Ursula K Le Guin and Katherine Addison’s ‘The Goblin Emperor’. Makes me want to read everything on his list.
December 30, 2023 at 10:29 AM
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Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.

@jonathanhaidt.bsky.social discusses the parents revolution on smartphones that his book “The Anxious Generation” has started.
open.spotify.com/episode/1hKD...

youtu.be/RN2GhPal4qA?...
‘Our Kids Are the Least Flourishing Generation We Know Of’ | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
youtu.be
April 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Can't believe I listened to Nobel prize winning economist specialising in trade on a Saturday night!
#TrumpTariffs
But recommend for those still imagining/hoping there is some 'masterplan or deeper strategy'
- there's just "layers and layers of wrongness"
"Never been anything like this craziness"🧐
April 6, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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For Abdulsalam, a boy caught up in the Darfur genocide, “the world unravelled in a day.” @imaanirfan.bsky.social speaks to survivors of the 2003 Darfur genocide.
www.prospectmagazine...
The drawings that captured Sudan’s genocide
Children caught up in the atrocities in Darfur drew the horrors they witnessed. The pictures are now used as legal evidence—but what happened to their...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
April 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Cornwall
April 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM