Lifting zoning restrictions may not help housing affordability as much as some hope. But if we must bring some change to established neighborhoods, let’s at least do it with human scale and respect for the things people love about their communities. My latest: bit.ly/4tr2eKE
Well, maybe the food on our tables?
Sure, farming could & should be much more nature friendly.
But UK is only ~60% food secure in an increasingly dangerous world.
Yet we insist on destroying our most productive land to build sprawl housing & distribution warehouses. Why?
Oil and gas prices are set on international markets beyond UK control
North Sea is not credible solution:
❌ output too small to make any difference
❌ will decline irrespective of new licences
Renewable generation and net zero tech 🔑 to bring energy independence
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🚨NEW: The impact of climate change on our economic stability is being hugely underestimated.
Our latest analysis shows climate damage could drive the EU’s debt-to-GDP ratio 58 percentage points higher than official projections by 2050.
Facing the climate and nature crisis head on is the first step in rising to the challenge. It's time to restore hope.
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#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp #NationalEmergencyBriefing
A possilbly hypothetical question: If, for any reason, it became evident it would be impossible to secure economic growth in the foreseable future, would it be more damaging to continue with policies to boost growth than with alternatives?
Eh @economist.com ?
Forget oil – the real threat from a Hormuz closure is a global food crisis
The global food system has far thinner buffers than energy markets.
buff.ly/L03iYVV
The Government New Towns Taskforce recommended 12 sites for new towns.
- Six would be blobs of greenfield sprawl on farmland
- One would be a huge urban extension on farmland
- Five are urban regeneration schemes which wouldn't be "new towns"
Read our new report.
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Graphic with a circular white frame over a background photo of a multi-level building covered in dense green vegetation and trees. Inside the circle is a quotation in green text about biodiversity stewardship being central to managing economic and societal risk. Attribution below reads “Professor Stephen Polasky, Co-chair of the IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment.” The IPBES logo with the text “Science and Policy for People and Nature” appears in the top-right corner.
The 🏡 IPBES #BizBiodiversity Assessment is approved!
As Stephen Polasky, Co-Chair, notes, a key focus of the Report is on accelerating collaborative action across governments, financial actors, business, civil society, and IPLCs. 🌍
🧪 Full Media kit: https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media
The Office for Environmental Protection is not an adequate substitute for this approach, is it. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
The Labour government has not published any long-term transport strategies nearly two years after being elected.
Radical ambition is now needed to turn around what has become the biggest source of UK emissions.
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There’s a nature-loving majority in this country.
Those in power must listen and stop trashing our environment.
There are far more of us than there are developer lobbyists.
They have the millionaires. We are the millions.
We need a bold campaign to get our nature back.
23 town and parish councils have already registered to host screenings of the People's Emergency Briefing - the new film featuring footage from the National Emergency Briefing along with reactions from the public.
To register interest in a hosting a screening and find out more...
A headline from GB News stating: Motorists switch to using public transport to avoid paying £5 daily congestion charge
In shock news, motorists have switched to public transport to avoid paying the Oxford Congestion Charge.
A spokesperson* said: "This is exactly what was meant to happen, and it did."
ITV News report on the UK governments 'secret' report about the Climate Emergency.
Frankly, it just says the obvious if you have half a brain in your skull. But at least it's in writing.
youtu.be/59DZiPdsOc8?...
Is spring in the last week of February necessarily a good sign?
We definitely need that, but political action is being rapidly undermined by a flood of climate-change denial, mostly on X, by people claiming to be climate scientists (who often don't have a clue). And it's working. Two of our political parties are now opposing even net-zero.
While human capital has increased, natural capital has declined. All businesses depend on and impact nature, and can be positive agents of change.
Find out more in the new IPBES #BizBiodiversity Assessment Report: https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media
“The climate scientists we surveyed were unambiguous: current economic models can’t capture what matters most – the cascading failures and compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world – and could undermine the very foundations of economic growth.”
Should be the top story everyday.
NEW BLOG POST: Why don't we see more cyclists on our visits to new housing estates?
www.transportfornewhomes.org.uk/why-dont-we-...
"We are asking for a WW2 level of leadership".
Professor @mikebernerslee.bsky.social at the National Emergency Briefing in Westminster.
Has your MP joined the Parliamentary Call for Gov to make a televised emergency briefing to the nation?
Check here: www.nebriefing.org/parliamentar...
#NEB2025
If it puts your area at the heart of the disastrously unsustainable #OxCamArc then it's very clearly the wrong move.
Our Director Kat Jones has written an analysis of the Edinburgh hyperscale data centre decision for Bella Caledonia. She explains how the result will have ripples far beyond the city as other data centes make it through the planning system.
bellacaledonia.org.u...
Cities like Bradford have thousands of run down homes and huge mills ripe for conversion. Yet building is still being focused on green fields in the suburbs. When did Labour stop believing in urban renewal and start backing wealthy building developers?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
In the 53rd of this long-running (over 2 years) series of blogs Nick MacKinnon leads further technical criticism of this windfarm proposal now on its 3rd (hopeless) iteration markavery.info/2026/02/16/g...
#wind #turbine #peat #SAC/SPA #wildlife
Great Channel 4 News report on the latest #AMOC monitoring.
"Trouble is: there is now growing scientific consensus that the AMOC is weakening."
@noc.ac.uk
youtu.be/JpOpsMOBsL4?...
