Ex-Founder of @UN-recognised @2030hub making the #GlobalGoals local in cities.
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I'd even donate the extra #LFC title for that.
If we're going to retrospectively punish Manchester City for fibbing can we also reverse Brexit whilst we're at it.
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Excited to reveal the 2026 Earthshot Prize Finalists: the inspirational leaders from around the world tackling some of the most pressing challenges facing our planet.
Watch the full video on @YouTube: piped.video/syDFSkB1ru0
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If you're the smartest person in the room, then you're in the wrong room.
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Be clear. Reform now has the resource to buy every billboard in the UK, blanket wall to wall advertising across written and broadcast media and saturation leafleting. The British will be blitzed into voting for the ultra right - against every best instinct. It is a dark moment.
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A French film explaining what would happen if non whites did what angry white racists want them to do by going back to where they came from. Absolutely sublime. We need this sort of creativity here.
Leena-Palestine
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British domestic food production is diminishing.
Less homegrown produce leaves the country dangerously vulnerable, writes @LNJStokes 👇
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Landmark new research from The Earthshot Prize and the @UniOfExeter's Green Futures Solutions team, reveals 51 environmental solutions that can trigger rapid and transformative change to repair our planet within the next 5 years.
Read the full findings: earthshotprize.org/news/the-…
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Why restoring Nature is a huge opportunity for building resilience to climate change impacts. An essential read as we make plans for the future.
rewildingeurope.com/news/rew…
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Inevitable and frightening. Glaciers to insects and all in between. A changing climate changes everything, for everybody.
🚨 Well, this alarming. For the first time ever, an invasive tropical mosquito species, Aedes aegypti, has been found breeding here in the UK, specifically in east London.
These are the mosquitoes that can carry nasty tropical diseases like dengue, Zika and chikungunya. Health officials say the immediate risk is still low and they're working to get rid of them.
As climate change drives increasingly warmer weather patterns, official climate modeling warns that parts of the UK could become a permanent habitat for invasive mosquito species as early as the 2040s.
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"1 in 4 chance of ‘catastrophic’ water supply failure for 1m Britons."
Yep, according to the govt's national risk register there is now 25% chance of a massive failure "resulting in the loss of piped drinking water and impact to wastewater services for over one million people”, adding that "residents would likely have to leave the area, and some may require evacuation. It is likely that repair of the infrastructure could take months".
You have been warned.
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16 years ago Google pulled its search engine out of China because they wouldn’t submit to an authoritarian government.
Today, they’re renaming lakes to appease one.
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Please. Somebody make #ScouseStarWars a thing.
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The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.
The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.
We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.
Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
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When the Govt says it wants more oil and gas exploration, when Fonterra says it want more intensive industrial dairying, they are saying they want to profit from more climate catastrophe
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There comes a point when more planning does not make you better prepared.
Before a polar swim, we plan obsessively. But eventually you reach the limit of what you can predict. You cannot write a contingency plan for something you haven’t imagined.
So we prepare the team for what the plan might miss: making decisions with incomplete information, adapting quickly, and understanding the overall objective rather than just their own role.
There is a paradox here: the better prepared you are, the less dependent you become on the plan.
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That's the work I've spent my career doing. Founder of @2030hub, the world's first UN-recognised Local2030 Hub, Coethica and Everton FC before that. Over two decades bridging planetary need, global policy, corporate targets and street-level delivery.
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