Caroline Smyth

I tweet: "people who see 50% of their monthly paycheck go to rent don't care if a candidate eats with their hands. they want to hear what your candidate is going to do about housing." John Galt 2025 replies: "Move if the cost of living is too high."

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

Everyone’s a winner if this happens - ciltuk.org.uk/News/Latest-...

Happy Outwith Day to all who celebrate, both inwith and outwith Scotland

Glasgow remains the most deprived city & local authority area in Scotland - of course, you wouldn’t think it from all the massive SUVs bounding about (loads coming from other LA areas). The time for SUV surcharges is long overdue.

Subsidising private car use is holding our city/ cities back.

It’s pronounced cyclist.

🚨 Legal win 🚨

Ministers can’t duck environmental duties after this win

Our legal challenge exposed failure to assess environmental impacts of Carbon Capture & Storage - a dirty distraction, locking us into gas

#ClimateJustice Read my op Ed scrapcc.org/IS-EDP-OPED

Press Release: scrapcc.org/PR-IS

Glasgow Times column https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/25533696.a-green-surge-happening-can-turn-radical-change/

✍️ Latest @glasgowtimes.bsky.social column.

Zack Polanski took the fight to Reform on national telly this week. They were well and truly rattled.

We can turn a Green surge into radical change in Glasgow. Join us.

👉 greens.scot/join

📰 www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2553369...

I'd actually forgotten how extraordinary it is that when I won the leadership - I wasn't interviewed as it was too close to our party conference interviewed.

And then refused a second time!

Part of the antidote to all of this is creating our own media platforms.

Hey @boldpolitics.bsky.social 👋🏼

Group of 10 SEDA and Glasgow University volunteers wearing the newly designed SEDA T-shirts at SEDA Green Careers Fair on Wednesday 24 September 2026. The event was held in the Glasgow University Union from 10am to 4pm.

Thanks very much to the impressive team of volunteers who guided over 600 students around the SEDA Green Careers Fair at @uofglasgow.bsky.social ensuring it was such as success.

About Tim Tim Gill is an independent scholar, writer and consultant on childhood, and a global advocate for children’s play and mobility. He is the author of Urban Playground: How child-friendly urban …

"Children are basically living very captive and kind of contained lives, and that's just not healthy." @timrgill.bsky.social on this @thewaroncars.bsky.social podcast.

podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id14...

More info on Tim rethinkingchildhood.com/about/

#PlayStreetsBETA

Sad news about such a pioneer and legend who did so much for animal protection and scientific research - and was the very best of us. RIP

Poor Valencia…. hit with heavy rain & #flooding AGAIN.
When are we going to see Govt promises upheld?
When are we going to see #FossilFuel companies, (who knew this would happen) forced to pay for their deliberate damage?

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”

Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life.

Common sense.

Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

Less Traffic, Safer Streets: As Summer Comes to an End, Governor Hochul Highlights Continued Success of Congestion Pricing Governor Hochul and the MTA announced New York City’s congestion relief program has continued to successfully reduce traffic and improve travel times throughout the region.

www.governor.ny.gov/news/less-tr...

I live in Glasgow close to Anniesland Cross & people from other local authorities shouldn’t be subsidised to pollute our city, make conditions less safe for children walking to school, congest our roads, wreck the climate & slow down public transport. This toll is long overdue.

Rally at SPT Offices

After 2 years campaigning, today we celebrated the final approval of SPT's plans to bring our region's buses back into public control 🚍🥳

Now we need the ScotGov's support to make it happen!

Help us reach 5,000 signatures on our petition 👇

📝 petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE2116

Cement is responsible for around 7-8% of carbon emissions.

How do we decarbonise it?

This week on Solving for Climate we talk to Leah Ellis, CEO of Sublime Systems, about how we might solve for low-carbon cement.

Listen here:
open.spotify.com/episode/3PXb...

text on black background It's bizarre that a $75,000 vehicle to go get a cappuccino downtown is for those salt of the earth folks but the $200 bicycle for the daily commute is for the privileged few.

Bizarre.

from this article a few years back
usa.streetsblog.org/2022/05/25/o...

This is great - if long overdue - news. Well done to the Scottish Parliament!

Scotland joins global movement to boycott Israel. An earth with the Palestine flag. Scottish Greens.

🎉BREAKING: Scotland has joined the global movement to boycott Israel!

The proposal put forward by Green MSP @patrickharvie.bsky.social was supported by a majority of members in the Scottish Parliament.

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

The Guardian on our study published today:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Two Late Imperial Oil Booms: A comparison of the constrained national energy imaginaries of the UK’s North Sea and US hydraulic fracturing The UK and the US dominated global oil production for nearly a century. Imperial power was central to their control over the extraction and flow of oi…

*New research article*

Gabe Eckhouse and I for Geoforum on how since the 1970s North Sea oil and then fracking have been imagined as British and American national energy sources through imperial oil booms reinforcing old oil powers after the rise of anti-colonial nationalism.

Read it here⬇️

Here's your first look at tomorrow's front page 📰

One-fifth of wealth in hands of richest 2% 💰

Massive Attack's Robert Del Naja on the arrests in Parliament square,

“I think this is going to go down as one of the most shameful moments in British legal history"

Teenage Fanclub at Kelvingrove Bandstand last night- photo taken by Kenny C (as I don’t take photos at gigs).

Gorgeous evening at Kelvingrove Bandstand last night seeing Teenage Fanclub and being whisked back to a more carefree time. A gig is as good as a holiday. ❤️

Map showing loss of Palestinian land.

#FreePalestine

Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

“Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week.”

City engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design.

I agree. #Helsinki #VisionZero

Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to massive investment and it's not stopping The report delves into the nuances of Parisian cycling culture, exploring the vibrant community of riders who navigate the city's streets

Paris urban biking DOUBLED in just one year.

“Cycling in Paris has transcended mere trendiness; it’s become a fundamental aspect of the city’s identity. Despite challenges like inclement weather, cyclists continue to flock to the streets, setting new records and reshaping the urban landscape.”

Post marriage break-up I had to choose between putting a deposit on a flat or buying a car. As a single Mum I chose the former.

Building soulless car dependant communities forces people into transport poverty whilst also increasing congestion, air pollution & road accidents in the wider area.

Don't Worry. . .