Dr Josh Lait
@joshualait.bsky.social
Research fellow in the governance of energy demand reduction at SPRU, University of Sussex | Co-benefits & green/post-growth framings of demand reduction | Previous Exeter Geography & POST energy fellow
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social can we have something positive like this in England a bit sooner? It's over £40 pounds travelling an hour on an overcrowded train from Brighton or Hove to London on a peak train...
Scotrail, your SNP Government nationalised rail service, is slashing rail fares helping you to make ends meet.
From 1 September 2025, you’ll pay the same train fare no matter the time of day or the day of the week you travel.
From 1 September 2025, you’ll pay the same train fare no matter the time of day or the day of the week you travel.
August 30, 2025 at 6:34 AM
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social can we have something positive like this in England a bit sooner? It's over £40 pounds travelling an hour on an overcrowded train from Brighton or Hove to London on a peak train...
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🚨Please check out our guide to the Energy Geography Research Group's sponsored sessions for today at the RGS 2025 👇👀
August 27, 2025 at 8:58 AM
🚨Please check out our guide to the Energy Geography Research Group's sponsored sessions for today at the RGS 2025 👇👀
Local authorities are developing new governance tools that take a broader view of the benefits and risks of climate action. Check out our recent case study on Cornwall Council's Decision Wheels!
Cornwall Council’s “Decision Wheels” assess environmental, social & economic effects side-by-side boosting prosperity, wellbeing & biodiversity. See how this EDRC case study by @joshualait.bsky.social and Professor Timothy Foxon shows a more joined-up way to plan climate action: tinyurl.com/yvdvnczu
Realising co-benefits of climate action - Energy Demand Research Centre
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August 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Local authorities are developing new governance tools that take a broader view of the benefits and risks of climate action. Check out our recent case study on Cornwall Council's Decision Wheels!
Great to see a more combative tone from @teamlabouruk.bsky.social on delivering net zero. The conservatives should be ashamed www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Ed Miliband says Tories are ‘anti-science’ for abandoning net zero consensus
Energy and net zero secretary lays out stark picture of how climate crisis and nature depletion is affecting UK
www.theguardian.com
July 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Great to see a more combative tone from @teamlabouruk.bsky.social on delivering net zero. The conservatives should be ashamed www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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🚨1-day online PGR conference on Just Energy Transitions! 10-4PM GMT 10th July. Please join us for a day of exciting talks. Register here:
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/fc808b... @edrc-uk.bsky.social @ignitenetplus.bsky.social @ukerc.bsky.social @accessnetwork.bsky.social
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/fc808b... @edrc-uk.bsky.social @ignitenetplus.bsky.social @ukerc.bsky.social @accessnetwork.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
🚨1-day online PGR conference on Just Energy Transitions! 10-4PM GMT 10th July. Please join us for a day of exciting talks. Register here:
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/fc808b... @edrc-uk.bsky.social @ignitenetplus.bsky.social @ukerc.bsky.social @accessnetwork.bsky.social
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/fc808b... @edrc-uk.bsky.social @ignitenetplus.bsky.social @ukerc.bsky.social @accessnetwork.bsky.social
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Hello Bluesky! We are the @rgsibg.bsky.social Transport Geography Research Group. 🗺️🚇 Follow us for updates on our sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference and posts on the latest research across transport geography...
May 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Hello Bluesky! We are the @rgsibg.bsky.social Transport Geography Research Group. 🗺️🚇 Follow us for updates on our sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference and posts on the latest research across transport geography...
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🚨 We're excited to announce a one-day online conference for postgraduate and early career researchers on Just Energy Transitions - 10/07/25📆. For further information see below 👇 Apply: forms.gle/1dHmPM2kbnYw.... Deadline 10/06! @ignitenetplus.bsky.social @ukerc.bsky.social @edrc-uk.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 10:15 AM
🚨 We're excited to announce a one-day online conference for postgraduate and early career researchers on Just Energy Transitions - 10/07/25📆. For further information see below 👇 Apply: forms.gle/1dHmPM2kbnYw.... Deadline 10/06! @ignitenetplus.bsky.social @ukerc.bsky.social @edrc-uk.bsky.social
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A reminder of our rescheduled final webinar on today 2-3PM GMT!
@isoutar.bsky.social will give a talk on "Inevitable and enabling? Digitalisation and the UK energy system". Please register here 👇
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b614d8...
@isoutar.bsky.social will give a talk on "Inevitable and enabling? Digitalisation and the UK energy system". Please register here 👇
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b614d8...
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April 23, 2025 at 8:37 AM
A reminder of our rescheduled final webinar on today 2-3PM GMT!
@isoutar.bsky.social will give a talk on "Inevitable and enabling? Digitalisation and the UK energy system". Please register here 👇
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b614d8...
@isoutar.bsky.social will give a talk on "Inevitable and enabling? Digitalisation and the UK energy system". Please register here 👇
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b614d8...
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📢 PGRs in energy research - this one's for you!🏆 Enter our PGR Paper Prize for a chance to win £75! We will work with the winners to promote their work. Categories - conceptual, impact & methods. 🗓 Deadline: 5PM GMT 30 May
More info 👉 www.energygeographies.org/pgr-paper-co... @rgsibg.bsky.social
More info 👉 www.energygeographies.org/pgr-paper-co... @rgsibg.bsky.social
PGR Paper Competition | EnGRG
www.energygeographies.org
April 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
📢 PGRs in energy research - this one's for you!🏆 Enter our PGR Paper Prize for a chance to win £75! We will work with the winners to promote their work. Categories - conceptual, impact & methods. 🗓 Deadline: 5PM GMT 30 May
More info 👉 www.energygeographies.org/pgr-paper-co... @rgsibg.bsky.social
More info 👉 www.energygeographies.org/pgr-paper-co... @rgsibg.bsky.social
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Are you interested in the current UK energy landscape?
Join us for our 2025 Keynote Lecture with @dharavyas.bsky.social, Chief Executive of @energy-uk.org.uk, giving her perspective on the latest energy policy developments in the UK.
More details here
👉 bit.ly/4bVd5UT
#energypolicy #energy
Join us for our 2025 Keynote Lecture with @dharavyas.bsky.social, Chief Executive of @energy-uk.org.uk, giving her perspective on the latest energy policy developments in the UK.
More details here
👉 bit.ly/4bVd5UT
#energypolicy #energy
March 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Are you interested in the current UK energy landscape?
Join us for our 2025 Keynote Lecture with @dharavyas.bsky.social, Chief Executive of @energy-uk.org.uk, giving her perspective on the latest energy policy developments in the UK.
More details here
👉 bit.ly/4bVd5UT
#energypolicy #energy
Join us for our 2025 Keynote Lecture with @dharavyas.bsky.social, Chief Executive of @energy-uk.org.uk, giving her perspective on the latest energy policy developments in the UK.
More details here
👉 bit.ly/4bVd5UT
#energypolicy #energy
Seeing school travel, especially for SEND students, as just a cost makes children seem like a burden to local authorities. Our research shows that national education policy reforms have made school commutes longer, undermining health and environmental goals (1/4) www.bera.ac.uk/blog/escalat...
Escalating school travel costs: Recognising the role of national policy
A BBC news article from March 2024 highlights that local authority spending on school travel for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) has increased from £728m in 2018 to...
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April 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Seeing school travel, especially for SEND students, as just a cost makes children seem like a burden to local authorities. Our research shows that national education policy reforms have made school commutes longer, undermining health and environmental goals (1/4) www.bera.ac.uk/blog/escalat...
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Announcing our new Activism Award 🏆 Celebrating individuals & organisations driving energy justice in the UK – through research, teaching, activism, or community action. 🌍⚡ Nominate now! Deadline 5pm GMT, Friday, 30 May 2025👇 www.energygeographies.org/activisim-aw...
Activisim Award | EnGRG
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March 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Announcing our new Activism Award 🏆 Celebrating individuals & organisations driving energy justice in the UK – through research, teaching, activism, or community action. 🌍⚡ Nominate now! Deadline 5pm GMT, Friday, 30 May 2025👇 www.energygeographies.org/activisim-aw...
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Announcing our final webinar - 26/03, 2-3PM GMT.
@isoutar.bsky.social will give a talk on "Inevitable and enabling? Digitalisation and the UK energy system". Please register here 👇 www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...
@isoutar.bsky.social will give a talk on "Inevitable and enabling? Digitalisation and the UK energy system". Please register here 👇 www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...
Energy X Digital: Dr Iain Soutar | EnGRG
Inevitable and enabling? Digitalisation and the UK energy system
www.energygeographies.org
March 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Announcing our final webinar - 26/03, 2-3PM GMT.
@isoutar.bsky.social will give a talk on "Inevitable and enabling? Digitalisation and the UK energy system". Please register here 👇 www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...
@isoutar.bsky.social will give a talk on "Inevitable and enabling? Digitalisation and the UK energy system". Please register here 👇 www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...
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Meta pirated eighteen of my publications--an edited book, a book review, chapters and journal articles--to train Llama 3, its AI. Wonder how happy Elsevier, Bloomsbury etc are about that?
March 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Meta pirated eighteen of my publications--an edited book, a book review, chapters and journal articles--to train Llama 3, its AI. Wonder how happy Elsevier, Bloomsbury etc are about that?
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15+ years old, but still VERY relevent — and if we had acted 15 years ago, the “better world” we’d be creating would be a LOT better & easier to reach. There are real consequences we’re just starting to see to not heeding this cartoon a lot sooner. Even worse if we don’t heed it now. #ClimateCrisis
March 18, 2025 at 6:14 AM
15+ years old, but still VERY relevent — and if we had acted 15 years ago, the “better world” we’d be creating would be a LOT better & easier to reach. There are real consequences we’re just starting to see to not heeding this cartoon a lot sooner. Even worse if we don’t heed it now. #ClimateCrisis
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Announcing our third webinar - 19/03, 9-10AM GMT.
@yolandestreng.bsky.social will give a talk on "Digital Energy Futures: anticipating new worlds with design ethnography and scenario planning". Please register here 👇 www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...
@yolandestreng.bsky.social will give a talk on "Digital Energy Futures: anticipating new worlds with design ethnography and scenario planning". Please register here 👇 www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...
Energy X Digital: Professor Yolande Strengers | EnGRG
Digital Energy Futures: anticipating new worlds with design ethnography and scenario planning
www.energygeographies.org
March 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Announcing our third webinar - 19/03, 9-10AM GMT.
@yolandestreng.bsky.social will give a talk on "Digital Energy Futures: anticipating new worlds with design ethnography and scenario planning". Please register here 👇 www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...
@yolandestreng.bsky.social will give a talk on "Digital Energy Futures: anticipating new worlds with design ethnography and scenario planning". Please register here 👇 www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...
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“The climate crisis poses a bigger existential threat to this country than Putin does or ever will, so if money can be found for the military there’s no reason why it couldn’t also be found to accelerate self-sufficiency in clean energy.That might really do something for national security”. Spot on👇
Labour needs an urgent history lesson. Its plans couldn’t fund a war and won’t boost growth | Larry Elliott
We are seeing a pale version of military Keynesianism, and for what? That money would be better spent fighting the climate crisis, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott
www.theguardian.com
March 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“The climate crisis poses a bigger existential threat to this country than Putin does or ever will, so if money can be found for the military there’s no reason why it couldn’t also be found to accelerate self-sufficiency in clean energy.That might really do something for national security”. Spot on👇
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📢 How many workers are needed for net zero? A new report by Ian Watt, Faye Wade, @gregmarsden-leeds.bsky.social and Tim Foxon explores:
1️⃣ How many workers are needed by 2030-2035 to deliver energy demand reduction?
2️⃣ How robust is the evidence?
🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/2pkytwsy
1️⃣ How many workers are needed by 2030-2035 to deliver energy demand reduction?
2️⃣ How robust is the evidence?
🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/2pkytwsy
The job potential of energy demand reduction: evaluating available forecasts - Energy Demand Research Centre
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March 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
📢 How many workers are needed for net zero? A new report by Ian Watt, Faye Wade, @gregmarsden-leeds.bsky.social and Tim Foxon explores:
1️⃣ How many workers are needed by 2030-2035 to deliver energy demand reduction?
2️⃣ How robust is the evidence?
🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/2pkytwsy
1️⃣ How many workers are needed by 2030-2035 to deliver energy demand reduction?
2️⃣ How robust is the evidence?
🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/2pkytwsy
Refreshing to see someone at the House of Lords question the cult of economic growth! Growth at all costs without considering public good is absurd. This outdated mentality is how we end up with projects like expanding Heathrow during a climate emergency 🙃 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
When politicians tell us to focus on growth we need to ask: ‘Why, and for whom?’
Isolate growth from public good and you are simply planning for breakdown. My research shows that a resilient society should be rooted in wellbeing, not wealth, says former archbishop of Canterbury Ro...
www.theguardian.com
March 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Refreshing to see someone at the House of Lords question the cult of economic growth! Growth at all costs without considering public good is absurd. This outdated mentality is how we end up with projects like expanding Heathrow during a climate emergency 🙃 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Please join us for our seminar today!
Announcing our second webinar - 05/03 2-3PM GMT. @olamichalec.bsky.social will give a talk on "Developing digital twins in the energy industry – lessons for innovators, policy makers and infrastructure operators". Please register here 👇 www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...
Energy X Digital: Dr Ola Michalec | EnGRG
Developing digital twins in the energy industry – lessons for innovators, policy makers and infrastructure operators
www.energygeographies.org
March 5, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Please join us for our seminar today!
Very enjoyable to be up in Leeds meeting colleagues in person for the first time from the Governance and Place themes @edrc-uk.bsky.social. Some great discussions on the place-based well-being benefits of energy demand reduction measures
February 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Very enjoyable to be up in Leeds meeting colleagues in person for the first time from the Governance and Place themes @edrc-uk.bsky.social. Some great discussions on the place-based well-being benefits of energy demand reduction measures
Sad to have lost the great Roberta Flack today 🌇 youtu.be/NcDBwb296ik?...
I Can See the Sun in Late December
YouTube video by Roberta Flack - Topic
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February 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Sad to have lost the great Roberta Flack today 🌇 youtu.be/NcDBwb296ik?...
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Our webinar series begins next week! Dr Ralitsa Hiteva presents "Digital and energy landscapes in independent living: the case of digital technologies for health and wellbeing in England" 2-3PM GMT 26/02. Register here👇
www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...
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Energy X Digital: Dr Ralitsa Hiteva | EnGRG
Digital and energy landscapes in independent living: the case of digital technologies for health and wellbeing in England
www.energygeographies.org
February 21, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Our webinar series begins next week! Dr Ralitsa Hiteva presents "Digital and energy landscapes in independent living: the case of digital technologies for health and wellbeing in England" 2-3PM GMT 26/02. Register here👇
www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...
www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...
CfP🚨RGS annual conference 26-29/08/25. Session title: Assessing the Place-Based Co-Benefits of Energy and Climate Measures: Frameworks, Complexities, and Policy. Deadline for abstracts 21st Feb 2025. @energygeography.bsky.social
February 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
CfP🚨RGS annual conference 26-29/08/25. Session title: Assessing the Place-Based Co-Benefits of Energy and Climate Measures: Frameworks, Complexities, and Policy. Deadline for abstracts 21st Feb 2025. @energygeography.bsky.social