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Two-thirds of climate funding for Global South is loans as rich countries profiteer from escalating climate crisis New research by Oxfam and CARE Climate Justice Center, <a href="https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/climate-finance-shado

New research from Oxfam and Care shows how rich countries are profiting from the climate crisis

🌍 2/3 of climate finance to the Global South comes as loans
💸 For every $5 received, $7 is paid back – a 42% profit for creditors

www.oxfamamerica.org/press/two-th...

Where is the African urbanist? Decentering and pluralizing global urban thought Urban theory and geographic thought are, by nature, incomplete and continually evolving, yet they remain heavily shaped by those who occupy, speak from, and reinforce the center. While past efforts...

X/ “Where Is the African Urbanist” is published (though still behind a paywall).
I argue for the need to decenter and pluralize global urban thought
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I have so much respect for Greta Thunberg because she easily could have coasted on speaking gigs and Davos appearances for the rest of her life

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Who owns Scotland's offshore wind assets?

Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social lets you explore who really owns ScotWind projects – and who stands to benefit

Highlights in 🧵
Explore the map 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/scotwind

📣 Submit your paper to the @bjsociology.bsky.social 2026 Conference!

The BJS conference will showcase cutting-edge research across Sociology, providing a platform to discuss the most exciting developments in the field.

Submit your abstract by Monday 20 October 2025.

www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...

Daniel Totabo fishes for eel in the Halmahera rainforest

Nickel mines enroach on the rainforest in central Halmahera

New from @the-breakdown.bsky.social ISSUE 2

Photojournalist Garry Lotulung documents the exlosion of nickel mining, largely for batteries, in Halmahera, Indonesia—speaking with workers, locals & members of the island's Indigenous community

Photographed: Daniel Totabo

Thanks, Ben!

Fellowships: Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarships | PARC The Palestinian American Research Center announces the 4th competition for PARC Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarships for Palestinian women pursuing PhDs in the

Applications for the Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarships for Palestinian women pursuing PhDs in the humanities and social sciences are now open.

Please help spread the word.

www.parc-us-pal.org/tanya-baker-...

Global Corridor #4 Google's digital corridors for Africa, Carlyle Group's new global infrastructure fund, China-Europe Arctic shipping route, Trump's real estate interests in Saudi, Chinese road film, AI supply chains

My Global Corridor newsletter #4 featuring stories, data, opinion + academic work from digital cables to Artic sea routes to private equity funds to AI supply chains....Out now

globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

Death Is Just A Change David Lynch has gone on to whatever the next place is. I’m very sad about it; it came at a hard time for the city of Los Angeles, a place he dearly loved, and it’s hard not to think his change of cons...

Really sorry to hear about the sudden passing of Kaleb Horton, a fantastic writer. Only seems fitting to share what he wrote for David Lynch kalebhorton.ghost.io/death-is-jus...

El modelo económico de AMLO Los cinco puntos son las constantes decisionales económicas del obradorismo en el poder.  Al serlo, son el modelo económico obradorista.

No.
etcetera.com.mx/opinion/mode...

No, it doesn't, unless "the left" includes former president Salinas de Gortari and his Solidaridad project.

I came out of this film yesterday to news is Assata’s death. The film’s opening scene is an attack on the Otay Mesa detention center to free those locked inside. Thinking today about Assata & about the women & men who broke her out of prison. #FreeThemAll

Yes! 🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭

School Finance School So many educational justice problems come down to money. Why is the district closing schools? Firing teachers and paras and staff? Shuttering programs? Budget shortfalls, fiscal crises…

Our back to school finance training was popular, so we’re having a follow up next week! debtcollective.org/event/school...

The commune on the moors A spectre is haunting Sheffield • The spectre of Communism • And Coronation Street

For @dispatchmedia.bsky.social i went on the trail of the Totley Communists and the radical history of Sheffield.

dispatch-media.com/the-commune-...

🚨 Join us at the Labour Party Conference!

We’ll be hosting a panel & drinks reception, exploring insights from our new project — Who Owns Britain? — where we investigate who owns our essential services & how we can rebuild the country.

RSVP 🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/who-owns-b...

Bank of England urged to do more to tackle climate crisis Environmental groups mark 10 years since Mark Carney’s ‘short-term horizons’ speech with plea to act ‘while there’s still time’

Bank of England urged to do more to tackle climate crisis
10 think tanks and NGOs call for a review of monetary policy given the increasing frequency of climate-related shocks, for which monetary policy is "ill-equiped"...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Parsing the Rwandan urban question: Toward ‘minor histories’ of urban space - Shakirah Hudani, 2025

New Online 1st Author Response “Parsing the Rwandan urban question: Toward ‘minor histories’ of urban space” by Shakirah Hudani

doi.org/10.1177/2043...

I'm getting tired of saying this but being extremely stupid is only bad if intelligence matters to your particular epistemic community and/or you are unable to externalize the costs of your stupidity. unfortunately for the rest of us, neither of these conditions is met in this case!

We are producing a generation unable and (somewhat) unwilling to think, read and write without relying on tech controlled by some of the most evil people on the planet to tell them what to think, read and write and they don’t seem to see the dangers of this dependency even if we point it out

Me and my partner looking down where we are holding the season's first conkers, also visible are our shoes and hands and the grass beneath our feet

Attenborough St Mary's Church steeple through the trees and beyond a pond

A swan on the sunlit water with thick gold lined clouds and a vast blue sky above

A forest path with warm golden light and green leafy trees and spurge in Attenborough

Some autumn equinox things ✨

Why don't economists and asset managers want to know anything about production? Its machines, processes and knowhow. Why are they satifsied with pinging sonar off the substance of the world?
Tooze on our Hopkins report on overseas Chinese green factories...
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

The best dudes rock film about birding I have ever seen

Imagine having all the cultural and financial security of *the university of oxford* and being this pathetically weak. Extraordinary really.

Good morning.

Together with @littletollerbooks.bsky.social we publish a very important book

The destruction of our peat lands is of international concern.

40 nature writers incl. Rob Macfarlane - Amy Liptrot - Horatio Clare & music legend Patti Smith.

You can order here: www.littletoller.co.uk

Who Owns Britain? How the radical experiment of privatisation transformed society and reshaped our lives.

Explore “Who Owns Britain?”, including an interactive data dashboard and visual essay at the link below.

www.common-wealth.org/interactive/...