Category: Climate Action
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UWE Green Fortnight on YouTube
Green Fortnight runs each year at UWE – “our annual festival of eco ideas, events and smart living”. With my wonderful colleague Associate Professor Daniela Paddeu in the Chair for a joint University of the West of England and Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT) webinar on climate action, this was my opportunity to share…
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Personalised numbers plates – a sign of imminent civilisation collapse?
I have to be honest, when I saw ‘81 ACK’ sat there exuding opulence and then spotted ‘G4FFA’ sat proudly behind it today, it felt like they had to be a prompt for a post. Isn’t it funny what floats people’s boats. At COP 28 a few hundred million dollars…
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Cartoons get to the heart of the insanity of real life
Cartoons are powerful. They cut through faff and verbosity and get to the point. And they generally amuse us because they resonate so strongly with the insanity of real life. Tim Gent suggested yesterday that bringing over an old thread from Twitter I generated back in July 2021 might be worth…
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I can’t be that important as I didn’t fly by private jet to speak at the ATRF conference
I can’t be that important as I didn’t fly by private jet to the Australiasian Transport Research Forum to talk on climate action. A privilege to deliver one of the keynotes today at the ATRF in Perth on the day that COP28 gets underway with three UK elites arriving to…
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We all need to be climate activists now
We all need to be climate activists now. Look past the day to day distractions, beyond the air-brushed media and consumption marketing. Pull back the curtain to confront the ugly reality and consider what you can do to make a difference. Future generations are counting on us. We’re counting on…
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The motivations and meaning behind climate action
If you are truly prepared to open your mind and read the following account with care, attention and reflection, I believe it will pull at your heart strings and wrench at your soul. You will come to understand why ‘love and gratitude’ and ‘love and rage’ sit at the heart…
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The Pentagram of Influence – again
Two posts in one day – not sure the Al Gore Rhythm will like that. Here is the Pentagram of Influence, following its warm reception yesterday at the Wales National Transport Conference in Cardiff. I originally posted about it back in July (https://lnkd.in/e9mDriqy). I hope it can be of use…
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Hell awaits
In today’s episode of What The Hell Is Going On we hear from UK ministers and the UN Secretary General. Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General (20 September): Humanity has “opened gates to hell” by letting climate crisis worsen Mark Harper, UK Secretary of State for Transport (2 October): “There’s nothing…
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Suffer our dominion
Midnight and another #MetalFriday arrives. The amazing Cradle of Filth offer up ‘Suffer Our Dominion’. It’s not Ed Sheeran. But Ed and Cradle’s Dani Filth have been collaborating. Looking forward to hearing some heavy Ed. Meantime, give ‘Suffer Our Dominion’ a go when you need a boost to keep on fighting for…
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Climate activist’s LinkedIn account ‘restricted permanently’
BREAKING AGAIN: Zoe has just been unsuspended. Thank you so much to the many many people who immediately stepped up on this issue in support of Zoe and contacted LinkedIn. Who knows what was going on behind the scenes. In any case let us hope this platform remains a place where professionals feel…
What the hell is going on? 