Wood burners linked to 2,500 deaths a year in the UK, analysis finds Use of wood-burning stoves and fires in homes is mostly unnecessary and their toxic pollution costs the NHS millions The burning of wood and coal in homes contributes to almost 2,500 deaths a year in the UK, analysis has found. Stopping unnecessary burning would save the NHS more than £54m a year, the experts concluded. Wood-burning stoves and open fires are one the biggest sources of small pollution particles, which cause heart and lung disease, and their use has risen in recent years. The report also links this toxic air pollution to 3,700 cases of diabetes and 1,500 cases of asthma a year, although the health impacts are likely to be underestimated. Continue reading...

Wood burners linked to 2,500 deaths a year in the UK, analysis finds

‘The writing was on the wall’: The gender diverse people fleeing the UK | Good Law Project While many stay to fight the rollback of rights in the UK, hundreds of trans and intersex Brits are leaving home. Content warning: sexual violence

Labour's cruelty is driving trans people to leave the country. Mission accomplished? goodlaw.social/niy4

"If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves."

- Carl Sagan, Pale blue dot

YouTube video by Jason Stephenson - Guided Sleep Meditation Guided Sleep Meditation, Self Acceptance, Self Love, & Self Respect. (Spoken Meditation)

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YouTube video by SaintEtienneOfficial Saint Etienne - Take Me To The Pilot

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“Our study shows that routine hairstyling can release billions of nanoparticles into the air within just 10 to 20 minutes.” -Dr. Nusrat Jung

Ever think about the quality of the air inside your home? Turns out that when certain hair products interact with heat, they can release chemicals that pollute indoor air.

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Spoke tonight with the Financial Times. 👇🏼

Privatisation of UK industries is driving cost of living crisis, says Greens’ leader Zack Polanski calls mass privatisation a ‘failed experiment’ as report finds it has cost UK households £250 a year more The privatisation of the UK’s key industries is driving the cost of living crisis, damaging critical public services and making life harder for millions of people, the leader of the Green party, Zack Polanski, has said. Speaking after the Guardian revealed the British public have been paying a “privatisation premium” of £250 per household per year since 2010, he described the mass privatisation of UK industry as a “failed experiment”. Continue reading...

Privatisation of UK industries is driving cost of living crisis, says Greens’ leader

BBC Radio 4 - A Guide to Disagreeing Better Why do we hold our opponents in contempt? And what steps should we take to stop?

A Guide to Disagreeing Better
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Chicago sidewalks— you never know what you’ll find ❤️

Guy Pearce and Annie Lennox join call to end ‘normalised horror’ for children in Gaza Stars read Michael Rosen’s 2014 poem Don’t Mention the Children in film released by Save the Children Guy Pearce, Annie Lennox and Vanessa Redgrave are among the celebrities calling for an end to the “normalised horror” of children being killed in Gaza, as part of new short film. Released by Save the Children and Choose Love, it features the stars reciting the words to a poem by Michael Rosen. Titled Don’t Mention the Children, the poem was written in 2014 in response to a Guardian article about the Israeli government banning a radio advert naming children killed in Gaza. It begins: Continue reading...

Guy Pearce and Annie Lennox join call to end ‘normalised horror’ for children in Gaza

I WELCOME REFUGEES BECAUSE IF I WAS IN DANGER, I HOPE SOMEONE WOULD WELCOME ME

I WELCOME REFUGEES BECAUSE IF I WAS IN DANGER, I HOPE SOMEONE WOULD WELCOME ME

Hand-drawn cartoon-style illustration of characters from Alice in Wonderland. From left to right: the March Hare holding a teacup, the Mad Hatter smiling in a green hat, Alice in a blue dress and white apron, the White Rabbit in a red heart waistcoat, and the Cheshire Cat upside down, grinning. Above their heads, the curved text reads: “Things don’t always make sense.” Below their feet, it says: “But there’s still goodness to be found.” Illustration by @wonder.doodles.

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” W.B. Yeats

Some things won’t make sense…. there’s still goodness to be found.

Kindness, perspective, hope… our humanness is always there.

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#kindness #humanness #gratitude

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‘We have to tell an alternative story’: Green leader Polanski chats to Nigel Farage’s constituents Visit to Clacton-on-Sea part of social media strategy that Zack Polanski feels can rebut Reform’s rhetoric

People are exhausted.

Our high streets, public spaces, whole communities left unloved.

Blaming migrants won’t fix this.

Tackling inequality will. Tax the super-rich. Fund public services.

#DrawTheLine

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Protesting against genocide is not terrorism.

Farthate’s Reform wants to take all these rights away from you!!!
We need the ECHR protection when authorities or govt abuse us.
Reform and Tories want us to be slaves with no rights of any kind.

Zack Polanski: Keir Starmer is a cynical, disappointing sell-out The Green Party’s populist new leader is not only a threat to genteel ecologists — he believes Labour is also running scared

"With Polanski's fluency, courtesy and trick of listening carefully to questions that he then answers directly, the Greens’ new leader...could be very dangerous (to the Labour Party) indeed."

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Draw the line. Join the Green Party today ⤵️

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Good morning welcome to Tippetty tap tap Thursday

Your best is enough, because it’s all you can ever give and that is everything

Your best is enough.
It always was.
It always will be

Inequality is at the root of all our problems.

Let's invest in our public services.

Natural England hails recovery of 150 struggling species Chair Tony Juniper celebrates successes but says ‘collective endeavour’ needed to halt country’s decline in nature England needs a massive “collective endeavour” to halt the country’s nature decline, its top conservation official says, after multimillion-pound investments in nature helped dormice, voles, willow tits and other species thrive. Targeted conservation projects led by Natural England as part of its £13m species recovery programme’s capital grants scheme, have supported the recovery of 150 species, according to findings published on Wednesday. Continue reading...

Natural England hails recovery of 150 struggling species

Good morning & welcome to Whiskers Wednesday

Believe in yourself just a little longer.

Strength is that little voice that encourages you to keep going, even after courage and determination have given way.

BBC Sounds - 6 Music's Rave Forever - Available Episodes Listen to the latest episodes of 6 Music's Rave Forever on BBC Sounds.

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Some great 80's Mixes today 🤩🤩🕺

trans men are men. trans women are women. pass it on 🩷🤍🩵

Jo Cox , was killed9 years ago today 😢

She was a kind considerate human being, also fine politician due to go far.

But more importantly Jo was a Daughter, sister , Wife and mother

May she continue to RIP 🙏

The man quietly spending $1 billion on climate action From geoengineering to anti-methane cow vaccines and green aviation fuel, meet the former nuclear physicist helping to decide which climate change technologies hold the most promise

Solutionism in action - trying to deal with a problem at the end,rather than stop it occurring in the first place: "It has backed studies into anti-methane vaccines for cows, green aviation fuels, geothermal energy and carbon-removal technologies"

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This is what we need. Someone prepared to stand up for social and environmental justice, because the two are inexplicably linked.

🧠 Dementia Community News 🎥🎮🎨

🔹 Care Workers’ Charity publishes Impact Report
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🔹 New project to test dementia driving decision aid
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🔹 Study questions link between device use & cognitive decline
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