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Our leaky housing hangs round the neck of the UK economy like a lead weight, dragging households towards poverty and will do so forever or until some government or other has the courage and vision to invest in sorting it out.

They'd have to stop bothsidesing climate change in news/magazine programmes for either of those points to be accurate

They certainly haven't capitalised at local gov level, where by-elections since May show Lab/Con losses to reform and Lib Dems.

Yes, but actually just a higher turnout tends to push extreme parties to the margins.

Critics of renewables often point to land use as a reason not to do wind & solar. Land use IS a real issue for all energy assets incl renewables unless onsite.

But what critics conveniently forget is huge land impact of fossil fuels. Aerial view of fracking sites in Texas. 👇

Australian households to get free electricity three hours a day Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, the federal government will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.

Australians will be getting 3 hours of free electricity a day because of how many people have installed solar - this is seriously huge considering the massive solar uptake in Australia happened while the federal government delayed action on climate

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

It's turnout. The more extreme the party, the more they rely on a low turnout to get elected. We don't do enough voter registration campaigns in this country. It falls to councils, with ever limited resources.

Why solar power is the only viable power source in the long run Not only is solar more than capable of supplying all the world’s energy, in the long term it is the only power source that won’t fry the planet

"0.3 per cent of the world’s land area – yes, just the land – would be needed to meet the current energy demand from solar alone, which is LESS THAN THE CURRENT LAND FOOTPRINT OF FOSSIL FUEL INFRASTRUCTURE."

These seem very crude and obvious to us. What changed and what can we learn now? In the future will we look back on AI and (social) media misinformation in the same light? @ketanjoshi.co

Mandatory Installation of Solar Panels in Public Parking Lots to Apply Retroactively to Existing Facilities Starting at the end of November this year, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. ...

Meanwhile, in South Korea: "Starting at the end of November, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. This obligation applies not only to newly constructed parking lots but also to existing ones."

cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...

Yes, if I see another demonstrator proposed I will scream

Dundee Renewable Energy Society Dundee Renewable Energy Society is a Community Benefit Society dedicated to promoting sustainable community energy and alleviating fuel poverty in and around the city of Dundee.

Community solar farms are already in Scotland, in Dundee we opened it last year, see dres.coop

Or, they are looking in the wrong places for 'innovation'. Local level innovates by combining different tech and systems to solve social and economic problems too. Eg community energy.

I guess this is what they mean by "pragmatic environmental policies and not net zero dogma"

On this, if you grew up watching the Christmas Lectures or watch them now or have anything to say about them, I’m taking oral histories. About 20 mins over Zoom, if you’re lucky one of the cats might join us.

This feels quite... exciting?! News you won't read on many platforms though.

Pilot after pilot has shown that shorter working weeks can improve productivity, retain staff and improve people's quality of life.

Councils successfully shifting to a successful four-day work week should be celebrated, not criticised.

Britain can’t afford to delay its green energy transition Stalling our transformation of the grid will only harm the environment, raise costs, and risk jobs

The debate on investments into our #energytransition is often misinformed by simple slogans like 'we can't afford net-zero'. I believe the opposite...

𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙣'𝙩 𝙖𝙛𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙮 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙮 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣.

My thought through arguments are in this piece 👇

observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

"We"? Most councils acknowledged a climate emergency in 2019.

Great to see our research on frequent flyers being discussed in the House of Lords! It's this tiny percentage of the population who will benefit the most from airport expansion, while the rest of us have to live with the environmental consequences.

Fortune headline: "Bill Gates says a 2-day work week is coming in just 10 years, thanks to AI replacing humans ‘for most things"

"Amazon is cutting 14,000 corporate jobs" says Verge headline subheadline: "Some may ask why we’re reducing roles when the company is performing well,’ an executive admitted, blaming AI for the layoffs"

I "enjoy" this disconnect between tech titans claiming that AI will have us all eating pastries and working two days a week and the reality of firing people en masse while simultaneously supporting fascists who oppose universal basic income and are actively destroying the social safety net

Do you think your MP is aware of the full implications of the climate crisis, across health, national security, food security and our economy?

Ask them to attend the first National Emergency Briefing on 27 Nov: www.nebriefing.org

This is wonderful, well done!

‘Much fairer’: all profits from new Orkney windfarm to benefit locals Construction due to begin in 2027 on what is expected to become UK’s largest publicly owned windfarm

Orkney Council has confirmed all profits from its new wind farm will go into local services - wealth will circulate locally, not flow to distant shareholders.

It's a glimpse of what community benefit from renewables can look like. But how typical is this?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tony Blair Institute urges focus on cheap power The former UK prime minister’s think-tank backs net zero, but calls on the government to alter its approach to decarbonisation The last attempt by the think-tank of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair...

My take on the new TBI report published today:

"Cheaper power and clean power are not competing priorities. The diagnosis underplays the root cause of the UK’s energy cost challenge: dependence on imported fossil fuels and the volatility they bring."

www.sustainableviews.com/tony-blair-i...

The Green Party's proposal for a wealth tax on 1% of assets above £10m and 2% on assets above £1bn comes top of our list of tax reforms that Britons would support, with 75% giving it their backing

yougov.co.uk/economy/arti...

So many organisations keen to do me and my colleagues out of a job! If its not Reform its financiers. Should I be flattered they fund climate action on the ground so threatening?

A workable solution at last!

Why not just abolish standing charge? Same difference, it's the most regressive bit of the costs.

I seem to recall similar re plastic bag charge, sugar /alcohol taxes, banning disposable vapes. Yet, it works. Just get on with tackling glass and plastic bottle waste already.