Before people had the audacity to take up valuable road space from cars by riding cargo bikes, there were these, er, cargo bikes

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We often fail to comprehend how recently the Netherlands committed to becoming a cycling nation.

Of their 38,000 km. of separated cycle paths, more than HALF—about 20,000 km.—was built in the past two decades.

And they’re still adding a staggering 1,000 km. each and every year.

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We're well past the point of no return now. Politics needs to catch up to reality.

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If you're looking for someone to blame, here is your regular reminder of what causes extra, unnecessary traffic in London.

A third of car trips are shorter than 2km.

Around six in ten car driver trips are single occupancy.

The UK Government just approved the biggest oil field in the North Sea: Rosebank. Join me in signing the petition: stopcambo.org.uk/p/rosebank?sou…

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Dale Vince We need somehow to mobilise the 18-25 voters... quite a bit of apathy at the moment (anecdotally)... is there something that could done to target a crowdsourced/donated sum of money to reach them? It worked in Poland recently bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

Jo Brand, comedian extraordinaire, translates my climate science for real people.

As she says 'If people like me have to get involved you know we are in deep trouble'

Another brilliant video from Climate Science Breakthrough

Short version 👇

Long version: youtu.be/lfc6WF0ToVY

1. This is the only radiator in our house. We haven't turned it on yet, or used any other heating source. Yet we are always warm. Why? Because this house (which we rent) was built almost to passive house standards. Our bodies/cooking/appliances are sufficient to heat it. 🧵

The result of that one bike lane going in the angry guy at the community meeting warned us about.

If the Guardian is the only paper to front page this then I can’t see how we can make it. People with influence need to urgently call out the Mail and The Sun and their suppression of the climate change reality - or the public will never demand what’s necessary. This situation is…

For reasons I will never understand, when I was a first year at uni, a middle-aged Doctor from Gaza moved temporarily into the room opposite mine in halls.

We weren't sure what to make of our new neighbour. But after a day, I decided to knock on his door and say hello... 1/🧵

Join Amnesty UK to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza amnesty.org.uk/actions/ceasef…

Fairly certain now that, as a result of Earth's growing energy imbalance, we will have breached the planetary boundary of 1.5°C by the end of 2024. What a collective failure of the human enterprise that it can't even maintain its own home planet!

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen was filled with cars until a 2 year pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

I never saw girls cycling like this when I was a kid. I was the only girl I knew at college who would travel in by bike. What a change. This is what happens when councils step up - and are bold in designing streets that are oriented around people not just motor traffic