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Live in beautiful Ceredigion in West Wales. Vegan, nodig vegetable grower. Work for the brilliant Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES), but all views […]

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My latest blog post, inspired by the clarion call of pro Scottish independence actor Alan Cumming.

"Just get your boots off our neck, Westminster"

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Just get your boots off our necks, Westminster
In an interview with The National newspaper, the actor Alan Cumming, who currently hosts the US version of the popular show The Traitors and who is outspoken in his support for Scottish independenc…
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November 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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My latest blog piece on the new Scottish Languages Act granting official status to Gaelic and Scots and why these languages are national languages of Scotland.

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The Scottish Languages Act
Scotland’s status as a multilingual country is now recognised in law with the Scottish Languages Act coming into force on St Andrew’s Day. The Act beefs up the legal protections previou…
weegingerdug.wordpress.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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There is more than enough to go around. We just need to organise that.
This is how a matriarchal world order would arrange things:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800925003027
November 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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"Conventional economics – with its reliance on GDP growth – cannot respond to the global 'polycrisis'. This is the overlap between climate change, biodiversity loss, energy and food insecurity and extreme inequality – all amplified by geopolitical instability."

Why the UK should look beyond […]
Original post on mstdn.ca
mstdn.ca
November 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
My co-written piece in this weeks MJ on #COP30, energy demand, and the role of universal public services https://www.themj.co.uk/climate-transition-local
The climate transition is local
The 30th annual climate summit (COP30) is underway in Belém, Brazil. It may feel distant from the daily realities of local government in the UK, but the tools to...
www.themj.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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I really think that people who haven’t been poor should not give money or frugality advice to poor people. The problem with poor people isn’t money management or knowledge, it’s the insufficiency of money. This goes for anyone who wants to help people on food stamps navigate this situation […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
October 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they […]
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tldr.nettime.org
October 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Of all the best and kindest humans to ever live, Jane Goodall is near the top of my list.

Rest in Peace, you beautiful soul.

On behalf of the earth, I thank you […]

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October 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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QUESTION to bean growers who dry them on the vine

I'm a first time bean dryer, growing black beans. Goal is to have dry beans for use later.

A few of the pods are feeling "dry" but I'm not sure.

? What do you look for when dried beans are ready to harvest

? Is […]

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September 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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The BIG problem is because of massive car manufacturing influence, most media and political energy is going to EVs, with not NEARLY enough going to fewer cars and less driving. But the priority HAS to be the latter, since it’s the part of the solution that will actually do much more public good.
November 12, 2024 at 12:43 AM
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It's just 70 days now until the publication of my next book. It's available for preorder at all good bookshops. (And Amazon.) I'd much rather you didn't use Amazon 🙂

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-heart-s-awakening-108-steps-to-a-life-of-love/22444189 […]

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August 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Sorry to burden you with another jaw-dropping scandal. But what the government intends to do to chemicals regulation in the UK is chilling. Its consultation was slipped out so quietly that most of us missed it. When I read it, I saw why.
This week's column:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Want to import toxic chemicals into Britain with scant scrutiny? Labour says: go right ahead | George Monbiot
Jacob Rees-Mogg’s Tory fantasy of a post-Brexit bonfire of regulations is coming true. Our bodies and ecosystems will pay the price, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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People are saying we should write jumble words to mess up the training of AIs; I say we should just write sentences like those of the length Jane Austen would write, that have such non-local structure and nested clauses that, what with the drift of attention and the window of tokens, the LLMs […]
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mathstodon.xyz
April 28, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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I explore one of its themes in more depth here: the widespread but unfounded belief - which would be nothing short of catastrophic if implemented - that we can abandon high-yield farming.
www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People
The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death
www.monbiot.com
April 2, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people.

Sound efficient?

HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 7:36 AM