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Theo Heaton-Davies
@theohd.bsky.social
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Digging for worms 🪱 soil health and sustainable farming
Also cooking and cycling and other stuff
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irishrainforest.bsky.social
92%: the percentage of funding for Nigel Farage's far-right political party Reform UK that comes from fossil fuel interests.

Across the world, anyone blaming immigrants, etc, it's all just a smokescreen to allow the rich to keep on getting richer by killing our planet.
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‘You can’t eat electricity’: how rural solar farms became the latest battlefront in Britain’s culture war
Reform UK is exploiting opposition to solar panels – but most farmers are more worried about climate change.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:10 AM
theohd.bsky.social
Some fun days out in Yorkshire classifying soils with the Fera team. Each pit a little treasure hunt to work out the series! 🪱
October 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
theohd.bsky.social
The Flawed Ideology That Unites Grass-Fed Beef Fans and Anti-Vaxxers newrepublic.com/article/1933... via @newrepublic.com
The Flawed Ideology That Unites Grass-Fed Beef Fans and Anti-Vaxxers
From RFK Jr. to Hollywood A-listers and Democratic senators, people across the political spectrum are jumping onto the slippery slope of nature-based solutionism.
newrepublic.com
April 24, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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thierryaaron.bsky.social
"As an impartial broadcaster, the BBC should not be pandering to attempts from the right to turn the world’s most efficient home heating system into a culture war issue. What’s next cancelling Gardeners’ World because of Monty Don’s support for peat-free compost?”
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
‘They dictate the rules’: BBC tells PM’s Evan Davis to stop hosting heat pump podcast
Presenter believes decision was taken due to the technology’s link with net zero after he was told he risked accusations of political bias
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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vickihird.bsky.social
ICYMI Organic Research Centre have produced new free online tool. It allows growers or policy makers or researchers to model agroecosystem and look at impacts of pesticide use and how might be reduced while minimising impacts on crop yield. Link www.organicresearchcentre.com/resources/to...
AgroBox: an Agroecosystem Dynamics Sandbox - The Organic Research Centre
ORC Researcher Dr Colin Tosh recently developed a new framework for modelling the dynamics of agroecosystems, and here you are given full interactive access to these models.
www.organicresearchcentre.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM
theohd.bsky.social
Excited to have caught some parasitoid wasps (Proctotrupidae) in the midst of their emergence from a wireworm/clickbeetle larva (Elateridae) while sorting through samples today 🪲 Collected at Gibbets Close where Wychwood Forest Trust is supporting passive #rewilding of ex-agricultural land #bugsky
February 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
Whatever direct air capture is meant to be, or could be, this is unambiguously what it is becoming: a fossil fuel industry run factory creating single units of greenwashing to sell to the worst emitters

maritime-executive.com/article/nyk-...
Japanese shipowner NYK has reached a deal with Eneos to buy conventional bunker fuel with attached carbon credits, or offsets. This will reduce NYK's net emissions in years to come. Under the agreement, Eneos will purchase carbon credits from 1PointFive, an initiative of Occidental Petroleum and BlackRock. Each credit represents an equivalent amount of carbon that 1PointFive removes from the atmosphere using direct air capture (DAC) technology and stores underground. Eneos will then sell the bunker fuel and the attached carbon credits to NYK. 1PointFive is building its first direct air capture plant in Ector County, Texas. It is designed to recover up to 500,000 tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere every year, and the company says that future plant designs will be able to capture twice as much. The captured gas will be pumped into stable, secure underground geologic formations for long-term storage. Prominent clients include Airbus, Shopify and airline ANA, and the startup expects lots of demand in the decades to come. The company's first DAC plant will begin operating in 2025, and the Eneos fuel delivery contract begins in 2028. The carbon credits from Eneos are part of NYK's plan to address the last hard-to-abate elements of its carbon footprint. It will focus first on maximum energy efficiency, then on transitioning to new green fuels like ammonia and methanol (and LNG). For the remaining emissions that cannot be eliminated, NYK will buy carbon offsets to achieve net-zero. It is the two companies' second major agreement this year. In July, NYK absorbed about 80 percent of Eneos' in-house shipping fleet, including 18 LPG carriers, 19 chemical and product tankers, 12 dry bulk carriers and a ship management company in Singapore. Eneos retained its crude oil tankers.
January 16, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
RE the comparison to climate protesters - this is *worse* than hypocrisy.

Police, media and conservative commentators *fabricate* instances of blocked ambulances, for climate protest.

Whereas for farmers, actual instances of emergency services hindered get ignored

ketanjoshi.co/2023/08/04/a...
Here’s something that happens whenever a disruptive climate protest gets media attention: the level of disruption is exaggerated, or fabricated, in an effort to inspire public hate against protestors. This is one of a few tactics being used to suppress climate protest, in Australia. When climate activist Violet Coco blocked the Sydney Harbour Bridge last year, the police claimed that the protest “prevented an ambulance responding to an emergency under lights and sirens as it was unable to navigate through the increased heavy traffic”. It was later revealed that was a complete fabrication by the New South Wales police. The absurd, excessive jail sentence handed to Coco, 15 months, was lifted on appeal. In the original sentencing from magistrate Allison Hawkins, the phantom “ambulance” is repeatedly referred to: “You have halted an ambulance under lights and siren. What about the person in there? What about that person and their family? What are they to think of you and your cause? In fact, you do damage to your cause when you do childish stunts and dangerous stunts like this. It angers the community and rightfully so.” In the header image of this post, a painting has been spray-painted. Look closer, and you’ll realise the glass covering on that artwork is the thing defaced – but the majority of headlines of that action and most others involving artwork imply or explicitly declare the artwork itself has been irretrievably destroyed.
December 11, 2024 at 5:40 PM
theohd.bsky.social
What an exciting experiment www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘You have to find your own recipe’: Dutch suburb where residents must grow food on at least half of their property
In the suburb of Oosterwold, a living experiment in urban agriculture, the 5,000 inhabitants find different creative ways to fulfil the unique stipulation
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2024 at 3:04 PM
theohd.bsky.social
Should all the food we eat be organic? Yes! Can it happen in the UK? Maybe... This article nicely explains some of the barriers wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/doe...
Does organic food have a perceived class problem?
Organic is a knotty subject – where cost, status, and sustainability are tied up together. Matt Chittock unpicks the arguments.
wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk
December 1, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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frankashwood.bsky.social
Want to learn more about the wonderful world of soil biodiversity? Well then here's the starter pack for you!

If I've accidentally missed anyone off the list then please let me know in the comments.

Also check out @msteinwandter.bsky.social who has been working on one too!

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November 17, 2024 at 9:05 AM
theohd.bsky.social
Sowing (lovely sunny fieldwork) in summer now followed inevitably by reaping (long days of lab work) all winter ahead
November 16, 2024 at 2:20 PM