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SE24 prepares for its next share offer SE24 is growing quickly. Hot on the heels of completing our 2024 projects with London and South East Academy Trust we have opportunity to undertake another five solar PV installations with them…

At @se24.bsky.social we have a great track record installing solar PV and LED lighting at schools and our investors get a return. We are working on our next share offer - more information here se24.co.uk/2025/11/12/s...

I'd love to see more enforcement of existing speed limits whether they are 30 or 20 - seems almost non-existent for most roads

Sorry to hear it. Sending condolences x

A new narrative for climate action in a radically changed world - Part 3 In Part 3: Arguments for international climate action, TPP Director Neil McCulloch shows how this new approach would change international cooperation on climate action.

This the third of a trio of thought-provoking blogs by @neilmcculloch.bsky.social on new ways of thinking about climate action - domestic and international

www.thepolicypractice.com/new-narrativ...

Wow. Turning those data into a story about the dangers of PV shows just how biased the MSM agenda is

Schools are key players in the journey to Net Zero – is your site ready?

The Department for Education is calling on all schools in England to have a Climate Action Plan by 2025.

Not sure where to start? We’ve got you covered.

Cover of Gitta Sereny's book about Albert Speer

Sounds good. I'm halfway through this book at the moment - a truly astounding work

In 1850 the weight of all the world's wild mammals equalled the weight of humans and our livestock

Today they are outweighed 1 to 20

Reconfiguring life on this planet to produce cheap meat and dairy

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

China Helped Indonesia Build One of the World’s Biggest, Youngest Coal Fleets. It’s Still Growing. - Inside Climate News Indonesia is one of the few countries still building new coal power plants, the most polluting sources of power. Chinese companies are playing a large role despite a pledge by Beijing to halt such sup...

"Today, Chinese companies are continuing to build new coal plants in Indonesia, despite a 2021 pledge by China’s president, Xi Jinping, that Beijing would end such financing," reports @insideclimatenews.org's Nicholas Kusnetz (w/ @peteraldhous.com): insideclimatenews.org/news/1910202... #ClimateSky

Drug pricing and pharmaceutical innovation: a false promise The UK is facing a pharma exodus. Major pharmaceutical companies have withdrawn about £2 billion in proposed investment from the country, blaming insufficient government investment. Central to the dis...

Strong editorial from the Lancet. The Government needs to listen:

“The dysfunctionalities of the pharma model will not be solved by ramping up drug prices”
 
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

nacreous clouds - beautiful!

Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025.

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It's great to see this - though a pity the first deployment is to enhance FF recovery...

Good stuff Jan.
I sense that techs like batteries, PV and increasingly EVs are now being driven by economics more than policy. What will it take to get heat pumps to the same place?

🚲🥗🚗 Small choices matter, but big change happens when systems support them.

WRI Climate ranked 19 climate-friendly behaviors to show which ones cut the most emissions and why policies & businesses must make them accessible.

See the list 👉 bit.ly/4q0pWvC

Front cover of the book, "Prosperity Without Growth"

#RoutledgeRevisited

Prosperity Without Growth
@timjackson.org.uk

"Cuts through the intellectual clamour with clarity, courage & hope" @naomiaklein.bsky.social
"Essential reading for those refusing to succumb to a dystopic future" @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social

www.routledge.com/Prosperity-w...

"Life is mostly froth and bubble;
Two things stand like stone:
Kindness in another’s trouble,
Courage in our own."
~ Adam Lindsay Gordon

🎨 Carl Holsøe

saving more than 100k over 20 years for the school

saving 5802kg of CO2.

apply at selce.org.uk/shares

selce power - yes please

💡 Save the school > £100,000 over 20 years
🌱 Reduce emissions by an approximate equivalent of 5,802kg in CO2.
💡 Any project surplus to support Selce’s fuel poverty alleviation programme, saving households £1.06 million in total in the past year — ave. of £442 each.

➡️ www.selce.org.uk/shares

Two beautiful beings...

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

The hardest part isn’t realising homes can be improved – it’s knowing where to begin without wasting money. A House Like Mine lets you see what’s possible for a home like yours, with real stories to spark ideas.

cosyhomesoxfordshire.org/a-house-like...

We've just recorded a Rare Earth on animal migration & this app is amazing. It's called Animal Tracker (www.icarus.mpg.de/29... ), and it's real time data on 100s of animals - birds, foxes, bison & more. Their tracks are fascinating, taking clear routes with intent. More to come next wk on the air!

@privateeyenews.bsky.social on the money as usual

📢 #SO & #GHGprotocol have announced a landmark partnership to align greenhouse gas standards and jointly develop a new product lifecycle assessment standard.

This sets the stage for harmonized reporting and faster climate action. Learn more: bit.ly/4nlbtIs

My quote of the day

At any moment, an old world is passing and a new world is coming into being. We have sharper eyes for the fall than the rise because the old world is the one we know.

John Updike

Why Don’t Things Fall Up? Why Don’t Things Fall Up? delivers what every adult and schoolchild deserves, but often doesn’t get: an authoritative and accessible account of the key ideas in science. The book is rooted in Alom’…

Science Teachers! If you are responsible for a trainee science teacher and would like a FREE copy of “Why Don’t Things Fall Up?” to give them, drop me a line and I will send you one! (Or more if you have more than one trainee)

Nice! - would be good to get people to guess the thickness of the atmosphere too, just to see how thin the precious layer of gas is above our heads

Prosperity Possible Without Growth? | Intelligence Squared podcast with Tim Jackson In his latest book The Care Economy, Jackson issues the powerful warning: our fixation on growth has come at the cost of the most vital parts of our lives—c ...

🎧 PODCAST: Is Prosperity Possible Without Growth? In an age of environmental crisis and rising inequality, is our obsession with economic growth doing more harm than good? Tim Jackson of @cusp.ac.uk on why rethinking our values may be the most important decision we face.

View Hannah Daly’s graphic link Hannah DalyHannah Daly • 1stVerified • 1st Professor in Sustainable Energy 🎓 Climate Policy Advisor 🌍 Columnist & Advocate ✍️ Energy Systems Modeller ⚡Professor in Sustainable Energy 🎓 Climate Policy Advisor 🌍 Columnist & Advocate ✍️ Energy Systems Modeller ⚡ 1mo • 1 month ago • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn This graph is from the Environmental Impact Assessment report of a proposed data centre here in Ireland that claims to be "in compliance with" the national climate commitments, despite planning to be powered with on-site generation using gas. It claims that because Gas Networks Ireland has a long-term plan to replace fossil gas with biomethane and hydrogen, it will be "net-zero" by 2040. This is absolute deception: Carbon budgets are the fundamental legal basis for the climate law, not a long-term net zero target. If we exceed the budgets, because of projects like this, then we will have to pay huge sums to extract those CO2 emissions out of the atmosphere again, using technologies we don't even know will scale. The project's impact assessment shows that over its lifetime, it will emit 29 *million tonnes* of CO2, nearly *half* of the entire sectoral emissions ceiling for the Commercial Built Environment to 2030. In any case, energy projections show that we don't have policies in place to decarbonise the gas grid - until we do, GNI's long term decarbonisation strategy should not be used in these impact assessments.

re-sharing this @hannahdaly.ie post from my bookmarks bc I reckon it's quite important: this dynamic, of false promise used to justify multi-decadal fossil infrastructure, is so pervasive and so bad.

Prob also need to discuss the neon glow effect on the line chart

www.linkedin.com/posts/hannah...