Andy Prentice

“The emissions resulting from approving drilling at the Rosebank oilfield, expanding Heathrow airport, watering down the UK’s EV targets and cutting heat pump grants would be 402m tonnes of CO2 over the next 25 years… emissions would be greater than those of 106 coal plants running for a year.”

It's not just about climate chaos. It's also about landscape chaos. The damage we do to the land's hydrology is layered on top of the damage we do to the atmosphere. Our mismanagement of land commits us to a cycle of flood and drought. We can change this, as explained here. Please read. Thanks.

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‘Unprecedented highs’ of greenhouse gases lock in temperature increase for the planet @davidho.bsky.social climatewithbrian.com/2026/10/27/u...

Britain’s largest community-owned solar project is struggling for survival after the local grid company stopped it from generating electricity for four months.

Palantir has worked with the Israeli Ministry of Defence and US immigration agency ICE. It also has a major role connecting and analysing NHS data. For campaigners, those facts belong in the same conversation. Aidan Baker tells why.

New post: The Big Picture for the forthcoming UK Budget that the media largely ignores mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-... Because of tax rises already set in place, as well as recent data and current plans, the UK has the strongest 'fiscal credibility' of all the G7 economies.

Today Israeli authorities barred me and other European elected representatives from entering the West Bank to meet Palestinian students and civil society leaders, as part of a @progintl.bsky.social delegation.

🚨 NEW INVESTIGATION: The government met representatives of 137 businesses while developing its plans for a huge expansion of artificial intelligence data centres, but did not hold a single meeting with environmental organisations during the period examined.

A warm home, a decent job, groceries and rent that don’t cost your entire salary, a good education, access to nature. It is not too much to ask. The right to protest must be defended. The right to a decent life must be demanded.   We are with you.

How much of the world’s proven coal, oil and gas (i.e. already found, pays to extract at today’s prices) can still be burned for a 66% chance of holding 2 °C? About 30%. The other 70%, 2,040 billion tonnes of CO₂, are stranded assets. Burn it all and CO₂ alone means roughly 2.7 °C Purple = added

New Substack: ‘Poorer Tradesmen … poring upon Seditious, Heretical and Treasonable Papers’ And among the picks of the week, a challenge to digital animism - the false understanding of our own technical creations as our equals or betters nataliebennett.substack.com/p/change-eve...

Stark inequalities in access to green space must urgently be addressed. We were promised legislation so where is it? New legal mechanisms could give local communities access to unused public land for food growing & parks - great report from @globalfuturefndtn.bsky.social @friends-earth.bsky.social

The cuts being made at the BBC are unforgivable. They are putting it into a death spiral. The weaker it gets, the less people will want to support it. And yes, this is an issue for the Government, which likes to pretend it's not their problem. It is.

Coming soon, on 12th November, How Finance Extracts the Wealth You Create..at the Frontline Club, and starring yours truly.... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/screening-...

Anyone interested in the scandal of contaminated landfill sites - and what needs to be done about it - may be interested in this event on 9 November at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies - more here: ials.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

💚 Thanks to everyone who joined this weekend's Bosmere by-election campaign! Adria Pittock was just 151 votes short in May. Help her beat Reform this time! 🗳️ Register by 27 Oct ✉️ Apply for a postal vote by 5pm, 28 Oct 🙌 Help: admin@midsuffolk.greenparty.org.uk

25.10.2026 'Argentina | Widespread floods strike the northeast of the country, forcing around 2,000 people to flee their homes, after heavy rains caused a significant rise in the levels of the Paraná, Iguazú, and Uruguay rivers, amid reports of deaths in the provinces of Chaco and Corrientes.'

💡Passivhaus top tip: change your MVHR filters when the clocks change (twice a year) It’s easy to remember and it keeps your ventilation system running efficiently.

Women academics, this is how to acknowledge your husband in your magnum opus. Mary Douglas ‘Purity and Danger’ (classic text on the anthropology of dirt), 1966. #academicsky

On this podcast with @charliejgardner.bsky.social and @rupertread.bsky.social we discuss our new report on #climate popularism, and the need for #adaptation : retrofitting homes, greening cities, restoring #nature and growing food together. youtu.be/ntFeORWeYyI?... #climatecrisis

Kevin Maguire is spot on, all this talk about people stocking up is part of a wider lobbying campaign to increase defence spending. And as Kevin points out, the UK is already the 6th biggest defence spender in the world.

'Champions of life' (geographers, anthropologists, ecologists) are lining up against tech bros & their hubris, understanding we are human animals, part of & dependent on the natural world. With @commondescentpod.bsky.social, in the midst of a storm, I reflect on life's persistence, and power

Evidence. But as I keep saying, Burnham pretty quickly needs support from colleagues and wider political system over the EU which so far isn't happening. bsky.app/profile/drje...

“Cyclists are often perceived as recklessly flaunting road laws. A new study challenges this perception. The study found only 5% of cyclists broke road rules while riding on bike infrastructure versus 66% of motorists who broke rules while driving.” Safe bike infrastructure fuels rule-following.

Lula's win in Brazil will avert a free-for all on Amazon deforestation that Bolsonaro planned One of the largest & most diverse ecosystems on earth is already under strain from deforestation & climate change. Bolsonaro may have set it inexorably towards collapse We should all be grateful. For now.

Meet Will, the Cambridge plumber who gets to many of his jobs by e-cargo bike. Will founded Veloplumb in 2023, with a simple idea: many plumbing jobs don’t need a van full of equipment. 'I really believe in it, it boosts mental health to be outdoors, exercising and of course doing some plumbing!

We’re told to prepare for emergencies at home. Yet when local authorities ask for the full picture on ecological risk, the answer is often secrecy. How can communities prepare, asks Cllr Gary Champion

Thanks to @labourlewis.bsky.social for supporting our new Climate Popularism report, which I co-authored with Caroline Lucas. This moment offers a rare and fleeting chance to repair the neglect and powerless-ness that have fuelled the populist right. Read it here: www.climatemajorityproject.com

Hope US voters realise Trump, Musk, Putin all routinely tell lies. Trump trying to blame Zelensky for high US diesel prices. Spoiler: It's his war on Iran.

Sparse antisemitism in schools considered more heinous than mass murder of 22,000 children, or as teh BBC would put it unbiased verified balance meme via James Branch

Latest Democracy for Sale scoop - how Ministry of Defence commissioned Palantir to lead a review of how software is purchased from companies… like Palantir Experts calling for National Audit Office to examine what happened youtube.com/shorts/V6NdD...

Why EU free movement is an opportunity, not a threat – as Burnham makes the case, read @johnspringford.bsky.social for Arguably. “It is strange to reject one of the few policies that we know would raise growth and improve our fiscal position.” www.arguably.uk/p/eu-free-mo...

While approving drought making data centers all over the UK ... 'Water and Flooding Minister Emma Hardy has said people must "think about ways to use water wisely over the coming weeks", after severe drought was declared across parts of southern England' thewhipline.substack.com/p/why-is-the...

NEW: The EPA is quietly killing its web archive. Tens of thousands of documents on contamination, clean power, and Trump’s climate deletions are now scheduled to disappear.

Capitalism is great at making more. Terrible at knowing when to stop. Infinite growth on a finite planet is a physical impossibility.

Today's Teesside Lead is about the new documentary feature by @jeaniefinlay.com which tells the story of Hartlepool fishers whose livelihoods were wiped out overnight at the same time Ben Houchen's flagship freeport was being developed nearby. All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea is out now.

The real reason Gen Z is flocking to the @greenparty.org.uk Young people are looking ahead at what their future could look like if we carry on burning fossil fuels and don't take climate change seriously. @zackpolanski.bsky.social @turnleftmedia.co.uk

Gap between #renewables and #nuclear widens renewextraweekly.blogspot.com/2026/10/gap-...

Supprting @plaidcymru.bsky.social Carmen Smith's private member's bill calling on the government to live up to its manifesto promise to consult on the future of the #HouseofLords, I reflect that WHO makes decisions matter to trust in politics. #democracy - it would be a good idea

Beware of finance industry lobbying. It hired PwC (the firm that delivers dud audits) to produce a report, claiming that UK banks face highest rates of tax. The report included taxes not borne by banks. Omitted countries that levy higher rates of taxes. Integrity never gets in the way of profits.

We’ve put together a guide to the laws, the regulations and the rules that apply if you’re filmed without your consent – and the things you can do to protect your privacy 👀 https://goodlawproject.org/resource/filmed-without-your-consent/

UK offering Freedom of Movement would be the game changer for conversations with the EU, one of the trio of people, pounds and positivity I identified earlier this year as crucial to any significant move to removing barriers.

#ClimateAction works! Climate plans found to lower companies’ borrowing costs -If you are showing investors that you are serious about global warming, you are more likely to be fit to live in a world in 10 or 20 years’ time www.ft.com/content/52e3... via @FT #ActOnClimate #Wallstreet #Renewables

You can't clean up plastic once it's in the ocean You can't suck up fossil carbon once it's in the atmosphere You can't (quickly) regrow a forest once you've destroyed it Destruction needs to be addressed at source. It makes no sense to just damage everything and try to fix it afterwards

Spreading the word about Buy the Supply around Brighton! I've been leaving copies of my Zine, which will help you make the case for buying as well as building council homes, in libraries and organisations across the city. Print one out! 👇https://www.sianberry.org.uk/buy-the-supply-evidence/

Severe climate impacts are arriving decades earlier than expected The UK is not prepared. It’s time for government to hold an emergency briefing to the nation. In the meantime you can watch our film: www.nebriefing.org/screening-map It’s #TimeToStepUp #NationalEmergencyBriefing