Stefan Bouzarovski

*Job alert* We are advertising two opportunities @manchester.ac.uk, linked to the JUST centre (www.just.ac.uk)
- A Post-Doctoral Research Associate on Social & Built Infrastructure (www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...)
- A PhD on Green Skills & Communities (www.findaphd.com/phds/project...)

Join us in Brussels/online next week (registration closes soon, see below) for an interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral and policy-focused discussion on how to build inclusive and progressive energy futures in Europe and beyond ....

We recently launched an #energyequity campaign within @edrc-uk.bsky.social - see below for the launch webinar link. Key messages focus on the benefits that #energyjustice brings, and the need for inclusive #energytransition framings. #energysky

Wind and solar are the perfect renewable power pairing in Britain💨 ☀️

98% of the time, it is either windy or sunny. Particularly windy days are often cloudier, while very sunny days are usually calmer.

A match made in… Britain! 🤝

https://loom.ly/-pzxBgQ

The piece calls for a grown-up conversation on climate. Let’s start here:

There’s a difference between “we can’t create a truly ecological civilization under capitalism” (true!) and “everything is a lie, we’re doomed, nothing we can do in the next decade is worthwhile” (false!)

Why are we calling the Trump-Pu meeting a "summit", but the Trump-Ze meeting was just a meeting? Ru isn't a great power and can't achieve its goals. Let's stop feeding their delusions of grandeur.

'This could have been avoided': 1.3 million 'energy-insecure' UK homes built since 2015 Since the Zero Carbon Homes Standard was ditched in 2015, more than a million UK homes have been built with fossil gas heating and insufficient insulation levels, ECIU claims

Over a million 'energy-insecure' UK homes have been built in decade since previous government controversially decided to ditch energy efficiency rules that would have enabled new homes to avoid expensive gas bills:

www.businessgreen.com/news/4516130...

Extreme Heat Shuts Down Some Nuclear Reactors in Europe

'Extreme Heat Shuts Down Some Nuclear Reactors in Europe.'
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/c...

Let's challenge terms like "the energy poor" & call out broken system that causes inequities. New paper in @natenergy.nature.com led by @stefanb23.bsky.social w. @kcedano.bsky.social @lld8.bsky.social Tony Reames & Neil Simcock. 1/4

#energysky 🔌💡

Original headline: Your electric bill is rising faster than inflation. Here's why. Addition: Natural gas prices.

The WSJ didn't include the reason in their headline. Must not have had space. I fixed it.

Networked, fragmented, unequal: The emergent landscape of home energy advice provision in England - Energy Demand Research Centre

🏡 Who gets energy advice, and who misses out? New research by @stefanb23.bsky.social, Lilia Karpinska, Katherine Sugar and Sławomir Śmiech maps 131 providers across England, revealing major gaps in support. More inclusive, joined-up services are needed.
👉 tinyurl.com/3e6c2p5s

Thank you to the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies @hcas.bsky.social for hosting me at the ‘Environment, Society and Politics’ conference last month. An opportunity to discuss the spectre of right-wing populism re: #justtransitions (and visit a neighbourhood sauna in new-build housing!)

Great Britain pretty much powered by wind and sun right now. The place that literally launched the coal based Industrial Revolution - running on invisible stuff falling from the sky.

And I make fun of religion…

A vision for climate justice: a report from the APPG on Race and Community A report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Race and Community, investigating the relationship between the climate emergency and systemic racism

A new report looks at the relationship between climate change and systemic racism.

Only by profiling voices at the heart of the crisis can we create climate policy that actually works 👇
www.runnymedetrust.org/publications/a-vision-for-climate-justice-a-report-from-the-appg-on-race-and-community

Researchers losing their grants are collaborating to make sense out of chaos. grant-watch.us

This is not an exaggeration: illegally gutting this program will cause Americans to freeze to death in their homes.

Thank you 🙏🙈 and many congratulations to the others!

We know energy transitions are disruptive. Mainstream models represent smooth lines - renewables going up, fossil fuels going down. How then should we think about the disruptive qualities of energy transitions? @manchestersci.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/

AI in education is:

- A political project to get even more private tech into schools and universities
- Habituating children and students to industry-defined and -demanded "jobs of the future"
- Often not actually "AI" ...

Do you not see a problem with the stigmatising and derogatory language used in the paper? Or the statement (using questionable evidence) that chippies are a 'marker of low educational attainment'? All this against a background of long-standing epistemic violence against working-class people/places.

I wouldn’t have commented on it without having read it. I think the paper should be withdrawn and an apology issued.

How Trump Has Undermined U.S. Climate Policy President Trump has quickly transformed America’s approach to the environment, withholding funds and stretching the limits of presidential power.

This will probably get the least attention of all Trump's moves, but it is, in the fullness of history, the most monstrous & genocidal.

Ohio to spend $195M to ease I-75 congestion in Greater Cincinnati Interstate 75 traffic gets snarled. Ohio is working on solutions.

Narrator from the future: it didn’t

100000% this — do not spend time shooting down people who are *doing resistance*: we have to do all the boycotts, protests, lawsuits, ALL OF IT, to minimize harm wherever we can, find the fash's weak spots, and get the normies to realize their lives are fucked unless they do something.

If someone wants to write a response to this nonsense, I have a suggestion for the graphical abstract

Thank you Paul! At the national scale (27 EU member states), we found that renewable energy investment decreases energy-related injustices, while changes in GDP do not have a discernible effect. In our model, long-term unemployment and income inequality emerged as the key drivers of #energypoverty.

I think this is my favourite report cover of all time. Any others?

The JustHousing project has a website. With
@kevincredit.bsky.social & Fiadh Tubridy, we're working with community orgs & the Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) to strengthen links between housing + climate justice. The 3 year project is funded by @epaireland.bsky.social

mu.ie/justhousing

'Community-based energy governance and the political: Towards a post-foundational energy democracy'. A new paper led by @hayatokoga.bsky.social (w @saskapetrova.bsky.social), offering alternative understandings of #energycommunities & #energyjustice (#energysky, #geosky) doi.org/10.1177/2753...