@marcusxgrant.bsky.social
Just starting out in this place. Editor-in-Chief of Cities & Health journal. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rcah20
Is this our future.
Our health and that of the planet blighted in perpituity, while so many fail to act?
We all have some agencyi n this, #ActNow.
#Publichealth
Buy my novels here:
www.bravenewbooks.nl/site/userweb...
(and good news: AAP will soon appear in English, and the Rimutaka Singularity in Dutch!)
This is good...
23.11.2025 12:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0π° Monitoring slum health through ecological deprivation indexes is a useful strategy to understand health inequalities within a city. The authors developed a socioenvironmental index capable of explaining health outcomes and differentiating areas with varying slum typologies and non-slum spaces.
23.11.2025 08:24 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Health inequality quantification research by Mirela Barros Serafim et al.
π#CityKnowHows
πDeveloping a socio-environmental deprivation index for monitoring intra-urban health inequalities
www.cityknow-how.com/developing-a...
#Cities4Health
I donβt mind anymore if the Americans under Trump ever more try to kill themselves. They seem to deserve it.
But these new PFASs donβt stick to the USAβ¦
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
'Shaping NeighbourhoodsΒ is unique in combining all aspects of spatial planning of neighbourhoods and towns whilst emphasising positive outcomes for peopleβs health and global sustainability. New edition retains combination of radicalism, advice and pragmatism that made earlier editions so popular.'
21.11.2025 15:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Heads up, folk!
I have just noticed that my publication 'Shaping Neighbourhoods: For Local Health and Global Sustainability' has 25% discount for Xmas sale thingy [so-called Black Friday]
Very practical, with evidence-base, conceptual tools and **case studies**
www.routledge.com/Shaping-Neig...
Imagine if tech companies had made a wild capex bet on chasing clean energy, instead of inventing a plagiarism machine powered by **checks notes** extending the life of coal plants
20.11.2025 04:39 β π 852 π 214 π¬ 15 π 5
Views from the European Sleeper train between Berlin Hbf & Ostbahnhof.
20.11.2025 05:36 β π 1768 π 95 π¬ 26 π 5
A bar chart showing how climate-related extremes spiked the costs of cocoa, vegetables, coffee, and more.
An infographic showing how heat, flood and drought affect all aspects of the food supply chain.
Many people don't realise how climate change is already - not in the future - affecting our lives. And it's doing so in ways that, once our eyes are opened, we can notice!
For example, food. h/t @climatecentral.org
Biking around SF daily, I just don't see the ambition from SFMTA or City Hall on our bike lane network. So few new projects, so few new protected bike lanes. The contrast to Paris, which is rolling out massive new protected lanes constantly, is so brutal.
18.11.2025 03:00 β π 33 π 3 π¬ 4 π 0
Come and celebrate #FlightFree2025 with us at our end-of-year party!
"More fun than I thought it would be" ~ last year's rave review.
π Monday 15th December
β° 7.30pm
π Your Armchair (online)
www.tickettailor.com/events/fligh...
"I don't fly. I travel by boat and train instead. It means I can't go everywhere, but it's a magnificent way to see the world." - Celia Imrie
youtu.be/s0AkpfHHF0M?...
#TravelByTrainβ¨#GreenTravelβ¨#EcoTourism
A1 and Bitc01_n_ are heating up the planet and wasting precious non renewables to create a bubble that only aids capitalist wealth extraction. #r4today
18.11.2025 08:07 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Healthy Planet anyone?
18.11.2025 08:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Interview on #R4Today with Sundar Pichai,
CEO of Alphabet and Google,~ 'we can't let energy constraints hold back the economy'. Also ~ 'AI facts need checking'.
There we have it.
Homo sapiens is now Homo kamikaze - from an AI boss.
@scientistsforxr.earth @xrglobal.bsky.social
Brute forcing "intelligence" by expanding the data and the speeding the data processing still won't provide anything that could be called intelligence and is in itself unintelligent.
This is the opposite of what we should be doing. We should be using human intelligence to reduce energy use #r4today
Cover sheet of a journal article: "Why do cars get a free ride? The social-ecological roots of motonormativity" by Ian Walker and Marco te BrΓΆmmelstroet
HOT RESEARCH NEWS!
Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor...
Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system π§΅
Needs a comprehensive health impact assessment of this crazy policy to build nukes.
We can achieve better health and well-being for the bucks in more effective ways.
Only 2 years since the ban on neonics, France's population of insect-eating birds has risen 2-3% - from banning a single type of insecticide. Demonstrating just how much harm we cause birds when pesticides kill off the insects they need for food.
@paneurope.bsky.social
Franceβs birds start to show signs of recovery after bee-harming pesticide ban
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
9/ You can read the paper here: academic.oup.com/eurpub/advan...
16.11.2025 21:34 β π 19 π 10 π¬ 1 π 0During our New York event last week, Sally Abed β a member of Standing Togetherβs national leadership β spoke about where her hope comes from β the resilience of her people and the belief that when offered a real alternative, people will always choose life. (1/2)
16.11.2025 18:50 β π 23 π 13 π¬ 1 π 0
Worried that travelling less makes life less interesting? Books can take you further than most holidays ever could. From Sicily to Kerala, stories offer depth, culture. Explore the world through reading, and support flight-free living. #FlightFreeβ¨#ClimateCrisis
flightfree.co.uk/post/travell...
Humans have become redundant to the ecosystem. The only way to secure their survival is to become useful to the planet again
16.11.2025 17:01 β π 104 π 46 π¬ 7 π 1Climate change is the world's most pressing issue because it makes everything else worse. It enables dictators, it drives inflation, it makes survival harder for the poorest people in the world.
And the new data are clear: the rate of climate change is accelerating.
I couldn't agree more w/ my colleague Johan RockstrΓΆm here:
amp.theguardian.com/environment/...
And amazingly some people will drive miles and miles to reach a leisure activity and feel that this journey is somehow more important than somebody riding a cycle for leisure, because they are "trying to get somewhere" and the cyclist is just out enjoying themselves.
15.11.2025 15:14 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0'Vogtleβs two new #nuclear reactors in Georgia is a cautionary tale written in soaring electric bills and a growing political fallout. The people of Georgia are paying the price, literally, as their utility bills have skyrocketed by over 40%'
nuclearcosts.org/finally-some...
