Callum Swift

IDE and Galway Hospital GreenED support the urgent Connemara Greenway completion. Greenways are a proven, cost-effective intervention that improve physical and mental health, reduce air pollution and road danger, strengthen local economies, and expand sustainable tourism.

Good article but undermined by multiple typo's!

Eusem - Upcoming EM Monthly Webinar: Driving Sustainable Emergency Care — With Speed and Scale Join us for this hugely exciting EM Monthly Webinar coming up on 28th August Date: 28th August 2025 Time: 13:30pm (CEST) Location: Online (free registration required) Host: European Society ...

very excited to be speaking as part of the panel on this excellent webinar - Driving sustainable Emergency Care with speed and scale!

Still time to register, it's free and starting at 12.30 Irish time

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Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons

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Two words…Jevons paradox

The Economics of Climate Change and Climate Adaptation with Professor Karyn Morrissey Climate Conversations · Episode

Really enjoyed sitting down with @universityofgalway.bsky.social economist Professor Karen Morrissey for the latest @irishdocsenv.bsky.social podcast episode.

Now available on Spotify here:

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Because they prioritise people over cars. While Ireland continues to prioritise cars over people, people will continue to die

📢 PRESS RELEASE

Alongside the Dublin Commuter Coalition and other advocacy groups, we are calling on the Department of Transport to recommit to introducing a 30 km/h default speed limit in urban areas.

Well put! @georgemonbiot.bsky.social talks about this in his incredible book ‘the secret doctrine’. Neoliberal cheerleaders dropped the name of their ideology and just started pretending that it is simply reality and it worked a treat, most people have internalised the doctrine

it’s wild that in canada we’re talking about building oil and gas pipelines instead of just hitting the accelerator on electrification.

the longer we stay wedded to fossil fuels, the more we’re jeopardizing not just our environmental future, but our economic one too.

Given how important Israeli voices are in this context for obvious reasons: we now have Israel's two leading human rights NGOs in addition to many of its leading Holocaust and Genocide scholars calling the IDF's actions in Gaza a genocide.

There is no debate.

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So we have just bent the knee and kissed trumps ring, agreeing to buy billions of dollars of oil and weapons off America?? What an absolute disgrace FFS 🤬🤬🤬

How the EU succumbed to Trump’s tariff steamroller Relief at avoiding trade war is tinged with regret at not taking firmer stand from the start

Excellent FT piece on how the EU succumbed to Trump’s trade extortion: “Rather than join Canada and China with instant retaliation and inflict pain on US consumers and businesses, the EU — hamstrung by divergent views among its member states — chose to take the pain”

on.ft.com/471fKvG

My letter in the Irish Tines today about the ongoing catastrophe being wrought upon the Palestinians by Israel, and the profound repercussions that the failure to act will have on us all

The Climate Crisis is a Health Crisis - International Court of Justice Ruling Reaction from Health Community The International Court of Justice has delivered a historic affirmation: the climate crisis is a health crisis—and failure to act is a failure to protect life."

⚡️Historic! International Court of Justice rules:
👉Climate crisis = health crisis
👉Failure to act = failure to protect life.
"Health workers & advocates now have powerful legal backing to demand bold climate action rooted in justice.” said @jenimiller.bsky.social
➕ bit.ly/3GZDdCY
#ClimateICJAO

Healthy environment is a human right, top UN court rules in landmark climate case ‘This is the start of a new era of climate accountability at a global level’ - Greenpeace

Healthy environment is a human right, top UN court rules in landmark climate case

That’s literally the point of health warnings on products. To warn people off buying things that damage their health. Some things are more important than the shareholder returns of massive corporations

We are receiving desperate messages of starvation from #Gaza, including from our colleagues.

Food prices have increased 40 fold.

UNRWA has enough food for the entire population for over three months, stockpiled just outside Gaza.

Lift the siege and let aid in safely and at scale.

It's time to prioritise people, not cars.

It's time to make transport a source of health and wellbeing.
#SustainableTransport #ActiveTransport

OpEd by a genocide scholar stating that Israel has perpetrated a genocide in Gaza

After almost 2 years of refusing to use the word “genocide” The NY Times publishes this now that the slaughter of Gaza is in its final stages.

Get ready for loads of revisionist history from Corp News on the Gaza genocide just like with the invasion of Iraq.

And coming soon, the climate emergency.

Nobel Peace Prize for Francesca Albanese and the doctors of Gaza Netanyahu just nominated Trump for the Nobel peace prize. Let’s show that the world thinks - Francesca and Gaza doctors deserve it instead!

Awarding the UN's Francesca Albanese a Nobel Peace Prize would be powerful global recognition of her great courage in speaking out against genocide in Gaza.

It would be a clear statement of utter disgust from us all.

Please sign this @avaaz.org petition and share.
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B roll holiday pics.

Italy and Switzerland showed me again that investment in cycling reaps a huge return on investment. Tourism through the roof, healthy people, lowered urban traffic, transport networks that work symbiotically and e-bikes literally everywhere.

We are a decade behind already.

Feels like the reversal of the southern oceans circulation is…a big deal?

Obvs not as important as todays @irishtimes.com article on *checks notes* a sleeping passenger missing their flights lunch service

@irishdocsenv.bsky.social

www.icm.csic.es/en/news/chan...

Gutted we didn’t know about this when planning the first Galway Clinate Collective meet-up, it’s clashing🙈. Looking forward to the next one!

The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse

‘No one knows what will come to replace the international system that is currently collapsing around us, but any political system that prioritizes punishing those who protest genocide rather than stopping the killing has clearly exhausted itself.’

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The savage temperatures are believed to have claimed at least three lives, including that of a small boy who is thought to have died from heatstroke while in a car in Catalonia’s Tarragona province on Tuesday afternoon. In Palermo, Sicily, a 53-year-old woman died on Monday after fainting while walking along a street. She had reportedly suffered from a heart condition. A 70-year-old man was reported to have drowned at a tourist resort close to Turin as intense heat gave way to storms and flash floods. Admissions to hospital emergency units in parts of Italy have risen by 15-20% in recent days. The majority of patients are elderly people suffering from dehydration. The heatwave, which has forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from their homes in Turkey due to wildfires, has also forced the closure of schools in parts of France – as education unions warned the classrooms were dangerously hot for children and teachers.

It blows my mind that the fossil fuel industry is still allowed access to decision makers.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Zohran Mamdani is saying things like “poverty is a policy choice and politicians have a duty to their constituents to make their lives affordable” and it is making a lot of politicians very very scared that they may actually have to start doing some actual service in their public service jobs.

Government survey finds majority of the public think it's doing a bad job on climate Just over one in seven people who responded to the survey believed that the Government is delivering a clear climate action plan.

Gee, I wonder why. Maybe because they’re doing a bad job on climate.

Spot on letter by @wildmed.bsky.social!

Galway’s councillors continue to hold its people hostage with their outdated approach to transport — a second ring road.

The problem in Galway is not too few roads, but too many cars and too few viable alternatives.

Can’t wait for this!