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James Piers Taylor
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Chair of Dengie Climate Action Partnership, Founder member of eMpower Maldon. Former Chair of Permaculture Association UK. Opinions my own. Centre for Human Ecology alumnus.
Born@ 323.57ppm, Pop. 3.82bn Fiat d58. Ω ✈ 30/8/06 #DengieBioregion
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Recent reads
A photograph of 5 books on a rag showing their front covers: Thirty-two Words for Field by Manchán Magan; The Break-Down issue 1; My Techno- Optimism by Vitalik Buterin; The Trading Game by Gary Stevenson; and Radical Abundance by Kai Hero, Keir Milburn & Bertie Russell
November 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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A photograph of Russian asset Nigel Farage with Red Square behind him and red sun rays. The word Reform in white is overlaid. It looks very liek theBBC fixup of Jeremy Corbyn
November 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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#COP30 is on fire
Grab from video of a fire at the COP30 summit. The cartoon dog from the'Thsi is Fine' meme is sat in the middle gropund
November 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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@danravenellison.bsky.social Hi Dan, the stat in this quote would be useful for local campaigning. Could you point me towards the DfT source? Is it in a report I can reference? Thanks
November 18, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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The next Maldon District Green Party social is this Saturday 22nd - meet Greens by the riverside

Saturday 22 Nov 2025 - 2-3pm
Ye Old White Hart
The Quay
Burnham on Crouch
CM0 8AS

Nearest bus stop/service: Burnham Clock Tower (esxjdgwm & esxawtmt) D7 31 331

@rgl25.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk
Sgreengrab of a Facebook post. Identical text from this Bluesky post above a photograph of the quayside exterior of the White Harte Hotel in Burnham-on-Crouch. Above the text there is the logo of the Green Party of England and Wales accompanied by the words 'Maldon District Green party'
November 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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The statistics on deaths and injuries on rural roads would be useful for local campaigning. What is the source? Thanks!
November 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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“There isn’t a magic money tree that we can shake that suddenly provides for everything that people want”
Photorealistic generative AI image of a wine glass shaped tree in a parkland environment. The image is overlaid with text from the 'Champagne glass distribution of wealth' diagram showing that the richest 20% of the world's population hold about 80% of the global wealth, while the poorest 20% are at the thin stem with almost nothing. [That image originated from the 1992 UN Human Development Report highlighting the "champagne glass of world poverty"]
November 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Reform UK's bold new political offer: AUSTERITY 3.0
November 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Actually existing Faragism
Screengrab of The Guardian newspaper online's 'Politics Live' feed. The headline is 'Three more Reform UK councillors expelled from party over ‘dishonest’ behaviour after leaked video meeting / Footage of online meeting showed Kent county council leader remonstrating with councillors'. Below that are the headline sof four further items in the feed: 'Badenoch declines to say whether or not she thinks Sarah Pochin's black people on TV complaint was racist'; 'Three more Reform UK councillors expelled from party over 'dishonest' behaviour'; 'OBR productivity downgrade to create £20bn hole in budget, more than expected, reports say'; 'Minister defends plan to house asylum seekers in military sites even if it costs more'. Below this is the video of the infamous zoom call between Reform UK Kent county councillors, with the caption 'Suck it up'" Exclusive footage reveals tension inside Reform UK council'
October 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Wilf Richards’s new book The Power of Permaculture Principles - out now from Permanent Publications

includes contribs from many familiar folk in the UK #permaculture scene

there’s little work examining the core thinking tools of permaculture & this is sure to become a much referenced text
Photograph. The front cover of Wilf Richards’s book The Power of Permaculture Principles. Photograph taken from above. The book is surrounded by other books which are out of focus including Permaculture One, Archigram Ten, Pace Layers 1, Fossil Capital by Andreas Malm, A Thousand Little Machines by Bifo, Village Buildings of Britain by Matthew Rice and the May 2025 issue of the Essex Field Club Newsletter
October 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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A photograph of Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch superimposed on a cartoon background of a room on fire - a version of the background used in the 'This is Fine' strip by KC Green.
October 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Residents of Burnham-on-Crouch #Essex are concerned about a rise in far-right and racist activity in our town, if you are also concerned get involved, here is the WhatsApp link to get involved

chat.whatsapp.com/Jc87ObbPkrWJ....

Or if you'd prefer to email- BoCdefence@proton.me
QR code linking to the web address in the associated post. Above it are a crossed through logo for Reform Uk and the text 'Defend Burnham Against Reform UK/WhatsApp group'
September 14, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Leaving Zagreb on the train to Villach where I’ll hopefully make a tight connection with a Munich bound express. Looks like good weather for views along the Sava river, across Slovenia and through the Austrian Alps. #SlowTravel #FlightFree #Cyprus2London
Photograph taken at Zagreb central railway station. Three men sit at night stools around a high round table. There are disposable cups of coffee and packets of cigarettes on the table. Above and behind them is a poster mounted on the station wall. The poster is a pastiche of Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream, with a train coming up behind the screaming figure. The poster has the text ‘slusas krivu stvar!’. To the right of the image a woman sits at a bench by the station wall.
September 9, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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The Volk mind virus in an aging population correlates with symptoms of national dementia: fits of anger, self-soiling, incoherence, memory loss, poor sense of causality, dependence on rote expressions detached from context.

Have a cup of tea love & we’ll put some Vera Lynn on
August 25, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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No-fly route London to Cyprus, Day 2: Milano-Bari-Adriatic Sea on Frecciarossa and Blue Star ‘Superfast’ Ferries

#FlightFree #flygskam
August 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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No-fly route London-Cyprus Day 1: London-Paris-Milano via Eurostar &TGV #FlightFree #Flygskam
August 18, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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I think these plans for local government reorganisation in #Essex are getting too complicated
August 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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The July DCAP monthly meet-up is THIS WEEK

Thursday 31st July 7-9pm

United Reformed Church(URC)
[rear room accessed from side door]
53 Station Road
Burnham-on-Crouch
CM0 8HF

All welcome! See you there!
Weather heat map of the East of England centred on Essex which has the hottest temperatures. Overlaid at the top left are the logo of the Dengie Climate Action Partnership and the words monthly meet-up. Overlaid in the bottom of the image are the words “Thursday 31st 7-9 pm/URC, Burnham-on-Crouch”
July 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Everywhere I go in #Essex I keep see these posters in people's cars and their front windows. Does anybody know what it means?? TIA
Poster in black and red with a photograph of Jeremy Corbyn in the centre, text in white above the photo reading 'Jeremy Corbyn/No Surrender' and below the photo reading 'A Four-day Week & a Three-day Bender'. A semi-transparent red star is overlaid over the entire image. A poster image in green, black and red. In the centre a black and green coloured photo of Zack Polanski. Text in white around the photo read 'BACK/ZACK'
July 27, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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New #ReFill shop in Burnham-on-Crouch: Coco and Nut Pantry. Vegan, organic. Nuts, pulses, flours, household and personal hygiene items #EndSingleUse
Photograph of the ReFill section of Coco and Nut Pantry, Burnham-on-Crouch
June 7, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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A speedy sail ferry crossing Dover-Boulogne with our bikes yesterday using SailLink. Today we cycle up the coast to Koksijde, Belgium as we make our way up to Delft and Hoek van Holland

www.saillink.co.uk
May 10, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Our recent Essex Cycle Grant application was not successful but the Active Essex team are keeping us in the loop about some upcoming funding opportunities for feasibility studies on new routes.

Our vision is safe walking and cycling routes between all settlements on the peninsula
Map of the Dengie peninsula in Essex overlaid with lines connecting the rural settlements as an indicator of missing walking and cycling infrastructure Old map of the Dengie Peninsula overlaid with text reading: ‘RECONNECT DENGIE
May 9, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Trying to #rECOnnectDengie has revealed the dearth of thinking and material on rural #ActiveTravel so the latest Streets Ahead podcast is a breath of fresh country air on walk, wheel & cycle infrastructure. Lots to chew on! Thanks @lauralaker.bsky.social @adamtranter.bsky.social
Rural road with SLOW painted on the tarmac just before a ‘national speed limit applies’ road sign.
May 9, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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It’s better to walk than go in a car
Screengrab including text and an embedded image. Text above the image reads ‘what kids wanted to do if they had lots of money in 1979’ and ‘[camera emoji] BBC Junior That’s Life’. The image is from video of the aforementioned TV programme: a young boy in a purple polo neck stands in front of a girl. Subtitles on screen show some of his words ‘it’s better to walk than go in a car’. The BBC is overlaid on the image in the top left corner of the screen. Beneath he image text reads ‘From BBC Archive [Twitter blue tick emoji]’ and ‘1979: Junior That’s Life’
April 19, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Members of the Dengie Climate Action Partnership testing water quality in Pannels Brook today #CitizenScience #RiversTrust Working for the Weal of Water
A woman crouches to collect a water sample from a brook using a small white bucket on a string. Behind her, a man standing is putting on nitrile gloves. The setting is rural, with long grasses and trees visible in the background A woman crouches and examines a plastic container. To the left, a man is standing and holding up a transparent tube to better examine its contents. A concrete path leads away behind him. The setting is rural, with long grasses and trees visible in the background . In the foreground there is a small white bucket and smaller white tubular containers. A woman crouches stands on a concrete path bridging a watercourse. She is holding a small white bucket. I’m front of her, a man standing is leaning over to hold a tall clear cylinder which is stood on the path. The setting is rural, with grasses and trees visible in the background A square logo. The background image is a simplified two colour image of the Dengie peninsula showing some of the local watercourses. The land is coloured green, the water is coloured blue. Overlaid on the background are the words RIVER ACTION in red. The words are curved as if written on the rim of a circle
April 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM