Andy Wales

#ApoliticalDay kicks off - a lot has changed in 12 months - looking forward to the very open conversations about how we improve services for citizens and communities, explore what AI can bring for governments and protect our shared climate

Oddbox sells ten million boxes of rescued fruit and veg Founded in 2016, the group sources surplus and wonky fresh produce direct from farms and delivers it straight to people's doors

Brilliant progress from one of my favourite scale up companies - Oddbox - 10m boxes, 58k tonnes sold of food that would otherwise be wasted www.fruitnet.com/fresh-produc...

Heathrow Shutdown Shows How Electrified World Depends on One Device A shortage of transformers is causing delays to power projects everywhere, holding trillion-dollar industries hostage—and that was before tariffs.

Heathrow’s problems last week cast a light on another clean power bottleneck - transformers www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

More than half of world’s most populated cities are getting wetter, research finds Shift in weather patterns also sees cities such as Madrid and Hong Kong flip from wet to dry

Are you getting wetter, or drier? The climate lottery shaping the future of our cities on.ft.com/3Dt0ICU More than half of world’s most populated cities are getting wetter, research finds

Loving @apolitical.bsky.social day - great challenge from Marvin Rees on how the #COP process must change to cope with the exponential pace of climate change

The 1.5C Climate Goal Is Dead. Why Is COP29 Still Talking About It? Politicians and green advocates want to keep the focus on limiting global warming to 1.5C, even though scientists say the planet is already on track to soon breach the target.

Great overview of the importance, unreality and remaining value of the 1.5 degree of warming target at #cop29 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...