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Dr Nick Hacking

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Lecturer, Urban Planning & Development, Cardiff University | Circular Economy | Community Science Lab | Science, Technology & Society | Sustainable Transitions | Energy | Waste https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/hackingn https://nickhacking.co.uk/

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β€˜Climate change is here’: Experts warn global crisis is decades ahead of forecasts Drought, heatwaves, hurricanes, and wildfires are arriving sooner than we imagined according to scientists

"Climate change is here. We are seeing event classes [today] that were forecast in #climate models for the 2050s, 2060s, and 2070s.” - @oceanterra.org

#FasterThanExpected
#ClimateEmergency

18.01.2026 06:51 β€” πŸ‘ 189    πŸ” 116    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 12
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CIWM President launches 2025 report at his inauguration Ahead of his inauguration as CIWM President, Dr. David Greenfield has launched the CIWM Presidential Report 2025.

www.circularonline.co.uk/news/ciwm-pr...

26.06.2025 12:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Resilience Roadmap | UKGBC Learn more about UKGBC's industry wide project to create a Resilience Roadmap that maps how the built environment can be climate resilient by 2050.

ukgbc.org/our-work/top...

26.06.2025 11:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
LGG - CSL - 2. Glyncoch activity | Dr Nick Hacking - Cynaliadwyedd / Sustainability

Read these case study notes: nickhacking.co.uk/lgg-csl-2-gl...

28.04.2025 06:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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On 23rd April, Glyncoch residents marked 1 year of the anti-quarry 'Save Craig Yr Hesg Mountain' campaign by marching through Pontypridd.

Specific place-based narratives linked to nature help feed community dissent and 'community science' in the face of unwanted development.

27.04.2025 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
The Solutions to the Climate Crisis No One is Talking About | Robert Reich
YouTube video by Robert Reich The Solutions to the Climate Crisis No One is Talking About | Robert Reich

Your Earth Day reminder that the dual crises of economic inequality and climate change are no accident. Both are the result of decades of deliberate choices made, and policies enacted, by ultra-wealthy and powerful corporations.

But we can fix them both. Here's how: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuXU...

22.04.2025 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1008    πŸ” 253    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 4

What a vacuous shit show and betrayal of feminism...

16.04.2025 11:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Threats to nature in Labour’s planning bill | Planning policy | The Guardian Letter: The government’s proposals lack the safeguards necessary to preserve key ecosystems, including chalk streams and woodlands, warns Prof EJ Milner-Gulland

"Housing is urgent, but it doesn’t need to happen at nature’s expense."

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

16.04.2025 11:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Threats to nature in Labour’s planning bill | Planning policy | The Guardian Letter: The government’s proposals lack the safeguards necessary to preserve key ecosystems, including chalk streams and woodlands, warns Prof EJ Milner-Gulland

"Housing is urgent, but it doesn’t need to happen at nature’s expense."

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

16.04.2025 11:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Down to Earth: The path to radically lower emissions tucked away inside the devastating IPCC report | Environment | The Guardian In this week’s newsletter: The world has no choice but to halve carbon output by 2030 – one chart shows the way forward

"If we don’t achieve [a 50% cut in emissions by 2030], it will not be because of a lack of options.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

05.04.2025 05:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I also suggest an alternative route, a politics of belonging, in which political power and control of local resources are returned to communities.

28.03.2025 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 520    πŸ” 131    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 7
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Developer admits to discouraging residents from making planning objections A councillor at the meeting described the move as an 'attack on free speech'

More than worrying to find evidence that tenants of Berkeley Homes are banned from objecting to planning applications submitted by Berkeley Homes by a gagging order in leases

17.12.2024 10:07 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

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