Massive thank you to the very brilliant team at @gmb there from the very start helping build that tiny flame into a raging bonfire. #floodthestreets turn your outrage into anger. March for Clean Water. Join me Sat 26th Oct Parliament Square, London.

Yesterday's #PlanetaryHealthCheck from Johan Rockström: this comprehensive science-based initiative confirms what we already know in our hearts: humanity is living beyond the Earth's capacity to sustain us. This is an opportunity. We must rethink our economic models, political

UK was birthplace of the industrial revolution, 1st major nation to use coal power over 140 years ago. It is now the first major nation to quit it This is the culmination of civil society pushing and action going back to 2006. Well done to all involved france24.com/en/europe/2024…

Good news: coal powered generation of electricity ends today in the UK. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Today is the day the UK becomes the first G7 country to completely phase out coal power Since opening "Jumbo", the world's first coal power plant in 1882, the UK's coal plants have burned through a whopping 4.6bn tonnes of coal, emitting 10.4GtCO2 – which is more than most

10 years ago today, we did it! ✊

Florida braces for Hurricane Milton Safety is paramount. The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale is a widely recognized scale that categorizes hurricanes into five categories. #Florida #HurricaneMilton 1. Category 1: Hurricanes with sustained winds of 74-95 mph 2. Category 2:

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Solar panels and farms go together superbly. Politicians shouldn’t be telling farmers and landowners what they can do with their own land. Farmers know best.

Well, it's official. If Robert Jenrick wins the Conservatives leadership contest I will be politically homeless. There is a good discussion to be had about HOW to get to Net Zero; but pretending we don't have to, and blaming Net Zero for all our economic woes, is just infantile.

I'm so glad Rory Smith agreed to write about this for the The New York Times, and that Andrew Testa went with him to take such beautiful photographs

Britain's electricity mix over the last 24 hours: Nuclear 12.8% Gas 26.4% Coal 0.0% Wind 37.1% Solar 4.0% Hydro 1.2% Biomass 9.4% Import 8.6% Storage 0.5% Generation 726.5GWh Carbon intensity 168 gCO2e/kWh vs a target of 50-100 gCO2eq/kWh by 2030

The scences from Valencia were awful last week, horrific. It happens to be the home of @octopusenergy in Spain (Octopus EnergyES). This is the street where our main warehouse/depot is - and I'm going to share some of the messages from our team there. It's soberingly awful 1/n

Batteries are now playing a huge role in some energy systems around the world. Look at California - not long ago you wouldn’t even be able to see the contribution from batteries. Few expected batteries to ever be able to compete. Today instead of fossil fuel generation

Earlier this year we said goodbye to gas at our home in York 👋 The meter was removed by Octopus Energy and we're now officially off the gas grid! This will save us ~£100 a year in standing charges, but more importantly, we’re no longer burning any fossil fuel in our home 🙂

Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵

NEW RECORD: 2024 is the first year in history when wind, solar and hydropower generated more electricity than fossil fuels in the UK.

The right are trying to stop discussion of climate change and the LA fires even though scientists warned this would happen. One - Peter Kalmus - moved from LA precisely because climate change was making catastrophic wildfires far more likely. Does this look normal to you?

Since Trump’s victory there’s been near daily attacks in the UK media aimed at the government’s energy and net zero policies (there have been three in the last 24 hours). And yet there’s been barely a peep in defence from the government or its outriders.