@joswinson.bsky.social
Working for an economy that serves people & nature (p4ne.org). Former Lib Dem MP, Minister and Leader. Love running, winter swimming, birds 🐦, plants 🪴 and my 3 boys.
Love this... we are a part of nature, not apart from it.
youtu.be/w7VpbqktqEw
#nature
Indeed, we're 10 years old this year and back then it was quite unusual, now much more common.
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Lots more info at www.p4ne.org :)
22.04.2025 14:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Prof Dasgupta's review for the Treasury advocated thinking differently about the economy and nature. How to put it into practice? Looking forward to discussing at @green-alliance.org.uk event tonight.
22.04.2025 07:30 — 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 2No problem. I agree work is good, but to address these issues we need to make sure it also works for people's lives, and some recent labour market trends have gone in the opposite direction
16.03.2025 10:12 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“Last weekend, the world’s richest man closed down the world’s largest humanitarian effort, and no one ever voted for him.”
I felt it needed saying.
How can corporate transformation align with a nature-positive economy?
Experts @joswinson.bsky.social from Partners For a New Economy and Erinch Sahan from Doughnut Economics Action Lab will help you find out at the #NatureActionDialogues 2025!
Secure your tickets: https://buff.ly/3CcFNTP
The foundations of democracy have become fragile, and many of us feel disempowered, disillusioned and distrustful.
Join us as @dhnnjyn.bsky.social and @joswinson.bsky.social discuss a range of inspiring ideas for how we can reclaim our power and change the world.
www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...
Infrared satelitte image from Guardian of LA's Eaton fire, a city grid of hundreds if not thousands of individual buildings on fire
Terrific, terrifying, clarity of writing in the Guardian about LA wildfires:
"something climate scientists have been warning about for decades: compound climate disasters that, when they occur simultaneously, produce much more damage than they would individually"
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
As long as British politicians court billionaires, wherever they are in the world, the voice of ordinary voters will be muffled.
I called for an annual cap on political donations this morning on BBC Radio’s Today Programme.
Really? Not around where I'm from (West of Scotland) but maybe in some places.
22.12.2024 21:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Or just move to Scotland 😉
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Bright sunrise behind treeline reflecting on a lake in the foreground
Days are getting longer now!
22.12.2024 11:16 — 👍 50 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Forget John Lewis, this is the Christmas advert you need to see 👇🏼
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Posted this at the old place, but thought folks on @bsky.app might like to know I finally met my "mother".
12.12.2024 22:56 — 👍 148549 🔁 9255 💬 2976 📌 536It follows on from this review in 2022 by the team at Demos Helsinki @juhajuha.bsky.social
demoshelsinki.fi/wp-content/u...
Really excited to commission this exciting project, mapping and making sense of the new economy ecosystem in Europe - please share!
p4ne.org/landscape-re...
#economy #neweconomy
Compelling essay by Nazanin Zaghari-Radcliffe in the @financialtimes.com on her life in prison in Iran, books and the choice of freedom.
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Christmas looking lush at Hays Galleria
05.12.2024 18:25 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You should definitely add @verityharding.bsky.social
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Why philanthropy needs to look to the economic system if it wants to tackle the root causes of problems like climate change, poverty, nature loss and inequality - my article with Crystal Simeoni for Alliance magazine
#philanthropy #economics #systemschange
Hooray for civil society in South Korea and Georgia. When our time, comes may enough of us have their valor.
03.12.2024 21:45 — 👍 807 🔁 144 💬 12 📌 3Liking this analysis and concept of 'qualitynesia', feels true of lots of things, also related to the annoyance of built-in obsolescence and enshittification (which at least we may be more aware of).
03.12.2024 16:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's a start...
03.12.2024 16:04 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
"This is our moment to act": reflections from participants at Partners for a New Economy's gathering, including Ashanti Kunene, ECF's Rachel Owens, Michael Weatherhead from WeAll, @juhajuha.bsky.social and @katemac.bsky.social
Thanks everyone for making it such an engaging space to think together.
News ed’s piece of the day: why Boris Johnson and Tony Blair are cosying up to Elon Musk as he repeatedly attacks the U.K. (free read)
on.ft.com/3OAS5Ie
Yes I know, crime against cheese.
...and yet, and yet... surely I'm not alone in my curiosity about whether this might actually be a genius combo?
