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FACT: The more people choosing to walk, bike & take public transit to get around cities, the better cities work for EVERYONE, including DRIVERS.
Anyone claiming that less car dependency is a “war on cars” doesn’t understand how cities (or geometry) work.
It’s time we tell #TheTruthAboutTraffic.
Anyone claiming that less car dependency is a “war on cars” doesn’t understand how cities (or geometry) work.
It’s time we tell #TheTruthAboutTraffic.
May 23, 2025 at 4:20 AM
FACT: The more people choosing to walk, bike & take public transit to get around cities, the better cities work for EVERYONE, including DRIVERS.
Anyone claiming that less car dependency is a “war on cars” doesn’t understand how cities (or geometry) work.
It’s time we tell #TheTruthAboutTraffic.
Anyone claiming that less car dependency is a “war on cars” doesn’t understand how cities (or geometry) work.
It’s time we tell #TheTruthAboutTraffic.
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⚡🔌 Battery electric trucks are reaching lifetime cost parity with diesel — and starting to overtake them.
Globally aligned emissions standards or mandates could accelerate this tipping point in lagging markets.
New analysis from our @eeist-project.bsky.social team:
eeist.co.uk/eeist-report...
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Globally aligned emissions standards or mandates could accelerate this tipping point in lagging markets.
New analysis from our @eeist-project.bsky.social team:
eeist.co.uk/eeist-report...
🧵
May 20, 2025 at 9:44 AM
⚡🔌 Battery electric trucks are reaching lifetime cost parity with diesel — and starting to overtake them.
Globally aligned emissions standards or mandates could accelerate this tipping point in lagging markets.
New analysis from our @eeist-project.bsky.social team:
eeist.co.uk/eeist-report...
🧵
Globally aligned emissions standards or mandates could accelerate this tipping point in lagging markets.
New analysis from our @eeist-project.bsky.social team:
eeist.co.uk/eeist-report...
🧵
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People learn nothing.
Arendt wrote so clearly about the increasing targetting of people, starting with non-nationals, then dual nationals, then a succession of undesirable nationals. Nothing will protect you. Fascism requires an ever larger circle of enemies to blame for its own failings.
Arendt wrote so clearly about the increasing targetting of people, starting with non-nationals, then dual nationals, then a succession of undesirable nationals. Nothing will protect you. Fascism requires an ever larger circle of enemies to blame for its own failings.
April 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
People learn nothing.
Arendt wrote so clearly about the increasing targetting of people, starting with non-nationals, then dual nationals, then a succession of undesirable nationals. Nothing will protect you. Fascism requires an ever larger circle of enemies to blame for its own failings.
Arendt wrote so clearly about the increasing targetting of people, starting with non-nationals, then dual nationals, then a succession of undesirable nationals. Nothing will protect you. Fascism requires an ever larger circle of enemies to blame for its own failings.
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UK energy is massively over-priced to guarantee that energy companies make profits and households remain impoverished. It's time the government changed the rules that are so heavily rigged against the interests of people in the UK. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02...
It’s time to change UK energy pricing
I originally wrote this post as a Twitter thread in 2022. It was then posted on this blog and was checked by energy expert Mike Parr, who is a regular commentator on this blog.
A few price details m...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
February 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
UK energy is massively over-priced to guarantee that energy companies make profits and households remain impoverished. It's time the government changed the rules that are so heavily rigged against the interests of people in the UK. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02...
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The UK's anti-protest laws pre-legitimise far right authoritarianism. Labour must repeal them now.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/global/comme...
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/global/comme...
Extremists would not need to create an authoritarian state in Britain: Starmer is doing that for them | George Monbiot
The PM and his ministers are supporting illiberal laws that hard-right authoritarians could apply with zeal, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
February 22, 2025 at 8:22 AM
The UK's anti-protest laws pre-legitimise far right authoritarianism. Labour must repeal them now.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/global/comme...
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/global/comme...
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The economics profession presents an idealised version of the economy, as beautiful as Dorian Gray’s unchanging face.
The actual economy is increasingly ugly, like his portrait: marked by oligarchs and the underclass, the looting of poor countries, and the industrial-scale gobbling up of the planet
The actual economy is increasingly ugly, like his portrait: marked by oligarchs and the underclass, the looting of poor countries, and the industrial-scale gobbling up of the planet
February 22, 2025 at 9:32 AM
The economics profession presents an idealised version of the economy, as beautiful as Dorian Gray’s unchanging face.
The actual economy is increasingly ugly, like his portrait: marked by oligarchs and the underclass, the looting of poor countries, and the industrial-scale gobbling up of the planet
The actual economy is increasingly ugly, like his portrait: marked by oligarchs and the underclass, the looting of poor countries, and the industrial-scale gobbling up of the planet
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Stop these flights and stop arming Israel.
BREAKING 🇪🇸🇮🇱 An ongoing pattern of military cargo flights from the Zaragoza Air Base in Spain to Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv has transported over 60,000 weapons parts directly to Israel since October 2023, reveal the PI, PYM and AFSC.
February 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Stop these flights and stop arming Israel.
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More than two dozen scientists are urging the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) not to allow companies to use carbon #offsetting to meet their climate targets
Read more here 👇 @jamesgyke.bsky.social @gsiexeter.bsky.social
Read more here 👇 @jamesgyke.bsky.social @gsiexeter.bsky.social
Scientists advise against carbon offsetting
More than two dozen scientists are urging the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) not to allow companies to use carbon offsetting to meet their climate targets. SBTi has become a leading force in...
news.exeter.ac.uk
February 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
More than two dozen scientists are urging the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) not to allow companies to use carbon #offsetting to meet their climate targets
Read more here 👇 @jamesgyke.bsky.social @gsiexeter.bsky.social
Read more here 👇 @jamesgyke.bsky.social @gsiexeter.bsky.social