Can't believe that I am still on tour with this box we built 10 years ago. Most of the materials are still 'new' to people in construction, despite a climate crisis unfolding. It's still a great time speaking about the good and not so good materials and how they are made.

Another scale busting map! September rainfall for the UK. Huge variation but parts of southern England seeing over three & a half times their average rainfall. Incredibly Bedfordshire & Oxfordshire saw their wettest month (of any month) in at least 188 years.

He means climate scientists, btw. Starmer is trying to pitch climate science against the British economy. How many storms and floods and fires and crop failures will it take before he eats his words? Far, far too many. This The Labour Party govt is a corrupt & antiscientific disgrace.

Last year Zionists spent weeks arguing that Israel would never attack hospitals in Gaza. Now the IDF has attacked every hospital in Gaza and is targeting hospitals in Lebanon.

One single paper breaks ranks from the horrific manufacturing of consent for genocide

" The government’s deregulatory agenda... dominated the department’s thinking to such an extent that even matters affecting the safety of life were ignored, delayed or disregarded." Plus ça change, and all that

One aside from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry report not widely picked up. The panel has concluded that the reason for cladding Grenfell was aesthetics, not insulation. Really does emphasise how this was a story about class.

Such an excellent illustration of how inefficient fossil fuels are and how manufactured our dependency actually is. Close to half of all shipping traffic worldwide is just moving fossil fuels around

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"My own conclusion was psychologically it’s not that people want to work, it’s more people want to feel they are transforming the world in a way that makes some kind a positive difference to other people. In a way, that’s what being human is all about." economist.com/open-future/20…

Calling univ profs & lecturers! If you're interested in bringing concepts from Doughnut Economics into your teaching, we've launching a treasure trove for you! 7 slide decks, reading lists, videos & activities... Join us & Rethinking Economics live on 6 Nov, 7-8pm (UK). Please RT! 1/2

Palestine has exposed every contradiction in every single institution.

We’re working [sonic boom] tirelessly [huge explosion] for a ceasefire [even bigger explosion]

The bills for the clean up of climate disasters like that suffered in #Valencia should be charged to oil and gas companies. Instead, governments around the world continue to subsidise them with trillions of dollars of taxpayers' money every year. Enough.

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COLLAPSING: scientists confirm there's no doubt humanity will see the real risk of catastrophic multiple breadbasket failures by 2035-2045 🧵

The moment I realized schools were never optimized for learning was when I started researching pedagogy and realized that there are decade-long, known-good practices (some of which date to the 1960s) that have yet to enter classrooms

Mike Solana Palisades Fire from a flight arriving at LAX. Credit: Mark Viniello

Seeing rich people try to buy their way out of the LA fires was quite something…