John Chown

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Five days of jazz are set to take over Penarth this week. The Penarth Jazz Festival returns with a packed programme of live music, cinema, workshops, talks, dance, and exhibitions. Events will take place across from tomorrow (Weds, 14th Oct) to Sunday. www.valeofglamorgan.gov.uk/en/our_counc...

Uber just announced it will lay off 10% of its workforce, or around 3,300 workers. Last year, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi made $35M — 360 times his median employee's pay — and announced a $20B stock buyback program to further enrich shareholders and himself. Textbook corporate greed.

We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.

Utter madness Huge Data Centre planned for Fife Scotland It will use 62 acres of farmland, and energy demand to power it will be equivalent to that used by 1.34 million Scottish households, or half of Scotland’s energy usage www.heraldscotland.com/news/2616758...

On the 91st anniversary of Social Security, these words from FDR are just as important today:

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 18-Year-Old Mia Heller From Virginia, USA, Invents a Water Filter That Eliminates 96% of Microplastics From Drinking Water

These are all worth reading and see the predictions and possible lessons that could have been learned.

Denmark just passed a law that every person owns a copyright to their own face, voice, and body. In the age of AI, this places more legal control in a person's hands, and there are real, large consequences and fines for breaking this law. We need to make this worldwide. Use: interactink.vercel.app

Wildfires raging in Europe. Heatwaves breaking records. Forests burning while the Congo Basin & Amazon — our lungs — face ongoing threats. We did not inherit Mother Earth; we borrow her from our children. Protect & restore! #CongoBasin #Amazon

“The moral of the story is Stephen Miller is a terrible neighbor, on a mission to take away our first amendment rights.” From @FriendsofUSAID: www.instagram.com/reel/Da_jjeu...

@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social If Burnham annouces this he will lose Labour's left flank to the Green's and LibDems on his first day in office. How does this politically (let alone morally) make sense? It's mindboggeling how centrists dont understand this. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism

😎🌵🪴 a long read, but worth the time

It seems the USA's 'manifest destiny' is to elect the very worst people among them and destroy the democracy they swore to defend.

'When solar and wind power are combined with battery storage, they can undercut new gas power, challenging one of the fossil fuel industry’s arguments against renewables: that they cannot provide 24/7 electricity when the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing.' www.euronews.com/2026/05/08/r...

Someday soon everyone’s going to pretend they never supported him.

Nearly 2 billion people live in the red area. It is becoming completely uninhabitable. What do the climate deniers, who also hate immigration, think is going to happen?

Welsh scientists have developed a new biodegradable plastic made from seaweed that could one day replace fossil fuel-based food packaging

"Heat pumps just shift gas burning to the power station." Wrong. Even if 100% of electricity came from gas, a heat pump at SCOP 3.8 uses 51% less gas than a boiler. At a terrible SCOP 2.5, still 25% less. David MacKay made this point in 2008. The maths hasn't changed.

These are actual Freedom Riders, now elderly, sitting together decades after risking their lives to challenge segregation in the American South. On May 4, 1961, they rode buses south to defy illegal segregation in terminal facilities.

Carl warned us

Here’s a poem called ‘Life of a Naturalist’.

Climate Change is here. How will you help protect our earth ?

An animal recovering from paralysis shows pure joy, raising the question: can they feel gratitude like us?

#Spain receives more sunshine than any country in Europe — and it is building the solar infrastructure that geography always promised. Extremadura, Andalusia, and Castilla-La Mancha became the center where Spain added new solar capacity, racing toward its target of 74% renewable electricity by 2030

Attention community energy groups! 📢 ⚡️ The 2026 Powering Communities Fund is officially OPEN! We’re helping your projects thrive with grants of up to £5,000 per application. More funding = more impact for your community. 🌳 Don't miss out...apply today! 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/1dm9...

If we’re serious about clean energy, we need to fix electricity prices. Right now, the gas vs electricity gap is holding back heat pumps, EVs and more. In ep 4 of the Policy Fix podcast, our guests break down the policy levers behind electrification. 🎧: https://bit.ly/41K0PSY

Back to the simple natural order of things…….. not human arrogance based on destruction of our water,air, environment for profit…… for the 1%

In just over a decade, Chile went from no utility-scale wind or solar at all to having more electricity from these sources than from all fossil fuels combined: In 2000, wind+solar provided 0% of Chile's electricity, fossil fuels 45%.By 2025, wind+solar had risen to 36%, fossil fuels fallen to 28%.

The richest 1% will get $117 billion in tax cuts this year, thanks to Trump. That’s more than the combined budgets of eight federal agencies, including the Department of Education and the EPA. Meanwhile, the bottom 95% will see their taxes increase. It’s clear who he governs for.

Another triumph for deregulation! By saving a few million in monitoring and enforcement, our governments have landed us with a vast illegal waste dumping problem, new organised crime networks and a clean-up bill that could run to tens of billions. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm reminded of these wise words from Mr. Fred Rogers on what would have been his 98th birthday. We are all in this together. Let's renew ourselves to the fight for the common good. It's all the more important during these difficult times.

Hinkley Point C now expected to cost £49 billion.

Industrial heat is one of the hardest parts of the energy transition. This sand battery is now delivering fossil-free heat for industry, storing renewable electricity as high-temperature heat and releasing it when needed. Simple idea, big impact.

I am a climate scientist and this is correct. As the planet warms, storms like the one today are getting stronger… and as the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the mid latitudes, it increases the risk of the “freezer door” swinging open. Technical explanation here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.

HOWLING

“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”

Please share. 💔

I had a preview of the Warm Homes Plan, and one thing that stood out was the clarity of direction it provides. A simple word count already tells part of the story. 🧵