A very stressful week but what a fucking victory! Massive shouts: — Download Festival Andy Copping who were nothing but approachable & considerate with us on all of this. They care. They listened and acted, we should be proud of our festival and all involved.

something about the announcement of a final Japandroids album to bring a certain kind of 35-yr-old (i.e. me) face to face w their own impermanence. grateful we’re getting one last shout though and hot damn if every note doesn’t already feel like home ✨

🚨 Temperatures at the Olympic Games in Paris will soar to 35°C+ today. As the climate continues to warm, this fatal level of heat has become disturbingly common. Despite this, the Olympics continues to promote the polluting industries most responsible. 🧵 #Olympics

Feel so sorry for that Italian boxer lady who got beaten by a woman simply because that woman was much better at boxing than she is. How is it fair to have to compete against people of your gender who are much better athletes than you? #Olympics #IStandWithAngelaCarini

Introducing the 2024 International Touring & Environmental Responsibility Programme Projects >> tinyurl.com/yhhm7456 These 5 funded projects will receive guidance, peer support, mentorship & resources from us to develop their sustainable touring models...

Are you a composer or sound artist based in the Nordic region wanting to boost your #CreativeClimateAction? This open call is from one of our International Touring & Environmental Responsibility (ITER) programme projects...

Nature is calling 🍃 We’ve partnered with National Landscapes ( National Landscapes Association ) and the Department for Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs (Defra) on a £2M ground-breaking national art programme, Nature Calling 🌲

This should be bigger news: AI is *revitalizing the fossil fuels industry.* Bloomberg called it a "surprising resurgence" in gas-fired power plants when we were on the brink of a transition to clean energy. And big tech has nothing to say about it. bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-is-revita…

Karen Hao This is a disaster on so many levels, it's hard to know where to start. But the bubble in the AI industry... has become a bubble in the utility sector. Fossil fuel co's are using the talk about how much energy-intensive AI the future will need as an excuse to build more plants.

Murmur charity launches new support programme for artists who want to speak up on climate change musicweek.com/media/read/mur…

This is the true AI doomerism. Not the stuff about a rogue AI enslaving humanity, but rather using AI as an ideological tool to justify the capitalist nihilism of maximum extraction by claiming its the only solution for planetary collapse.

#CreativeClimateLeadership alumni Syed Jazib Ali hosts a panel on climate justice at ADE Green later this month. The event is a collaboration with Lyke Poortvliet (a fellow CCLer) and is one of the projects made possible through our CCL network funding >> tinyurl.com/4hbru7uv

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

More than 100 professional women’s players have signed an open letter urging FIFA to drop Saudi Aramco as a sponsor 👇 bbc.co.uk/sport/football…

Let’s get something straight about fossil fuel phase-out: renewables needn’t replace all the coal, oil and gas we use today bc most of it is just used to produce and move those fossil fuels around! We only need to replace the useful energy: 37% of what we currently produce 🫨🧵

In Greening Grey Britain, The RHS revealed that between 2005 and 2015 alone, 3 million extra front gardens were paved over. This has huge implications for overheating, flooding, and biodiversity. Homeowners should be mandated to retain or create 50% 'natural' garden space.

in the spirit of Mariah Carey’s long-lost grunge album, we proudly present: title cards from informational films by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF), as unreleased album covers (this one feels like Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene to us) 🧵

“This isn’t complicated,” says Sheldon Whitehouse. “Climate risk makes things uninsurable. No insurance makes things unmortgageable. No mortgages crashes the property markets. Crashed property markets trash the economy.” thehill.com/future-america…

The start of 2025 means it is precisely 25 years until net zero targets in the UK, EU, US, etc fall due. Every quarter now represents one per cent of the available time to fully decarbonise industrialised economies. Happy New Year! businessgreen.com/news/4392880/h…