Recently I asked friends why #nature and being #outdoors is important to them. #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek @talklandscape @LI_SouthWest @LI_SouthEast @LI_London_ @LI_Scotland @LI_NorthWest @LI_Wales @LI_EastEngland @LI_EastMidlands @LI_Midlands @LINorthEast @firalandscape

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💥WHO’S WITH ME - BOYCOTT PALMOIL 💥 Product categories to avoid •Chocolate, candy and biscuits: KitKat, Smarties, Aero, Oreo, Cadbury, Toblerone, Hershey’s products, M&M’s and similar confectionery often contain palm oil.[greenpeace +2] •Crisps and savoury snacks: Doritos, Ritz crackers, Walkers/Lay’s, Cheetos and other PepsiCo/Frito-Lay or Mondelez snack brands.[greenpeace +2] •Margarine, bakery goods and processed foods: many margarines, cookies, pastries, frozen foods, instant noodles and ready meals use palm oil or palm-derived fats.[rainforest-rescue +1] •Shampoo, conditioner and body wash: Pantene, Herbal Essences, Head & Shoulders, Dove, Johnson’s Baby Lotion and many mass-market personal-care products.[greenpeace +1] •Toothpaste and soap: Colgate toothpaste and Colgate-Palmolive personal-care lines have been named in palm-oil campaigns.[greenpeace +1] •Cosmetics and skincare: L’Oréal, Avon and many lipsticks, creams, foundations and sunscreens can contain palm-derived emollients and surfactants.[londontheinside +1] •Laundry detergent, cleaning products and dish soap: many conventional detergents and household cleaners use palm-derived surfactants.[rainforest-rescue +1] •Candles: many cheap paraffin/vegetable-wax candles use palm wax or palm-oil derivatives.[rainforest-rescue] •“Biofuels” and palm-oil-based energy products: palm oil is also used in fuels and energy applications.[rainforest-rescue] •Meat and dairy from industrial systems: these are not always direct palm-oil products, but palm and soy feed can link industrial animal agriculture to tropical-deforestation pressure.[regeneration +1] Companies often named in campaigns •Mondelez: Oreo, Ritz, Cadbury, Toblerone, Philadelphia.[londontheinside +1] •Nestlé: KitKat, Smarties, Aero, Nespresso and other confectionery/coffee products.[ethicalconsumer +1] •PepsiCo: Pepsi, Doritos, Walkers/Lay’s, Cheetos, Tropicana, Gatorade.[londontheinside +1] •Unilever: Dove, Ben & Jerry’s, many soaps and shampoos.[greenpeace +1] •Procter & Gamble: Pantene, Herbal Essences, Head & Shoulders and household brands.[greenpeace +1] •Colgate-Palmolive: Colgate, Palmolive and related oral/personal-care products.[greenpeace +1] •Kellogg’s: Pop-Tarts and other cereal/snack brands.[greenpeace +1] •Mars: M&M’s, Snickers and other chocolate/confectionery products.[greenpeace +1] •Hershey: chocolate and candy products.[ethicalconsumer +1] •L’Oréal and Avon: cosmetics and personal-care products.[londontheinside +1] Read labels for hidden palm oil Look beyond “palm oil” for these common ingredient names: palmitate, palmate, palmitic acid, palm olein, palm stearine, stearic acid, stearate, glyceryl, cetyl/cetearyl alcohol, sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS), sodium laureth sulfate, and ingredients beginning with laur-, stear-, glyc- or palm-. 🍃S 🌳H 🌳A 🌳R 🌳E 🍃 For them:

I have no words Just tears rolling down my face ….

Check out my latest article: A Resilient Britain: What Makes Society Resilient? linkedin.com/pulse/resilient… via @LinkedIn

Respectfully, can we talk about this? Bilbao, Spain, this evening. It’s relentless. Last year one of our leading climate scientists Prof @HayleyJFowler (video below) warned the UK at anytime could see enough rainfall that cars and homes are washed away, and the London tube network could be flooded and out of action for months. We need the @nebriefing and to be talking about this NOW @andyburnham @AngelaRayner @ShabanaMahmood @YvetteCooperMP @bphillipsonMP @piersmorgan @BethRigby @TomSwarbrick1 @vicderbyshire @jonsopel @maitlis @Emmabarnett @tombradby @WilfredFrost @CliveMyrieBBC @amolrajan @SophyRidgeSky @TVNaga01 @OborneTweets @JohnSimpsonNews @carolvorders @KamaliMelbourne @campbellclaret @RoryStewartUK @StanCollymore @GNev2 @skynews @itvnews @ITNProductions @adamboultonTABB @KayBurley @kayeadams @janem @mrharrycole @rachelburden @bbcnews @skynews @ShelaghFogarty @bbcnickrobinson @tomhfh @susannareid100 #climatecrisis x.com/MirenAguirrego1/status…

Check out my latest article: A Resilient Britain: Who Is Responsible for the Space Between the Silos? linkedin.com/pulse/resilient… via @LinkedIn

Projects designed to support nature could miss out on vital funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund in future. Have your say … action.wildlifetrusts.org/pa…

Apparently we should all be stockpiling food for resilience. Fortunately, my allotment is currently producing enough cucumbers to see us through most conceivable national emergencies. At last, a strategic purpose for the glut. #foodresilience #nationalemergency @madaboutplants

UK historic gardens “are in the front line of climate change” say National Lottery Heritage Fund, with some losing 80 per cent of their trees to heat and drought in summer and storms in winter. All officials surveyed reported some damage at their sites. japantoday.com/category/feat…

Hey, don’t think we’ve forgotten about this…

Check out my latest article: Beyond Compliance: How Do We Know Our New Places Actually Work? linkedin.com/pulse/beyond-co… via @LinkedIn

A brief note for @nadhimzahawi @ITV @GMB @kategarraway.

"Now people are asking aloud: why is Burnham ignoring what is in front of his face – the devastating impact of climate breakdown on the country and its citizens?" The silence is deafening, cowardly and unacceptable theguardian.com/politics/202…

#Birmingham is looking fantastic for the #europeanchampionships The stadium is buzzing, lots of supporters. The press & critics have been overly negative. Great variety of reasonably priced food vendors around the stadium, free bottled water & friendly staff what’s not to like!

Honestly, this is an outrage. Enough is enough. These evil lying bastards at the @DailyMailUK @dailymail are endangering all of us. This is a lie. 2026 is the hottest summer on record, beating last years record. Extreme wildfires have more than doubled globally, according to NASA. Wildfires have exploded across the Earth. The USA, Spain and France have seen record wildfires. The Mail never ever lead with the science of climate change. Labour deserves everything it gets because the govt itself does not understand climate change and refuses to have a National Televised Emergency Briefing @nebriefing to tell the public what we are facing. @andyburnham @AngelaRayner @YvetteCooperMP @Ed_Miliband

Disappointed is an understatement 😪 😑 😞 The eyes of the world are on Birmingham and this inept council can't even be bothered to clean the outside of Perry Barr Railway station. New council, same old crap 💩 😴😑@BhamCityCouncil @MorriamJan @ViscountViktor

Following claims that devastating fires on the Suffolk coast were caused by ‘rewilding’, this piece (& people who know what they are talking about), says that’s wrong, & explains how more natural (diverse, wetter & mosaic) habitats can help suppress fire. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…

A big thank you to everyone who’s been promoting the petition for a televised emergency briefing on the climate and nature crisis. It’s now jumped up to over 58,000. petition.parliament.uk/petit… #NationalEmergencyBriefing #TimeToStepUp

New YouGov polling shows a huge majority of Labour Party supporters back an end to the capture of our media by unaccountable elites. Sign and share the Media Sovereignty Act Campaign's (@MSovereign69190) petition to make sure this is debated in parliament. Let's take back control from the 0.001%. petition.parliament.uk/petit…

New research by Kew Gardens and the Greater London Authority (GLA) suggests up to 72% of the capital's urban tree canopy could be at risk by the end of the century because of rising temperatures and more frequent droughts.