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Catherine Read @cathread.bsky.social · 21h

An entrepreneur seizes the opportunities to recycle fishing nets 🐟 and builds a business with the potential to sell the U.K. manufactured equipment abroad. There’s money in going green plus it reduces waste and carbon emissions.
#GreenEconomy #NetZero

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‘When I pass piles of fishing nets, I see piles of money’: a one man recycling revolution on the Cornish coast

Determined to find a solution to the discarded plastic nets, Ian Falconer found a way to convert them into filament for 3D printing, for use in products from motorbikes to sunglasses

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Catherine Read @cathread.bsky.social · 1d

Thankyou for highlighting rural and villages for needing bus services. Living in a rural village, I see that people are forced into expensive car ownership and drive longer than they would otherwise need to because there is limited choice for public transport.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives"

“Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”

EHRC withdraws interim guidance encouraging trans exclusion

After six months of confusion and delay, the EHRC has taken down interim guidance rushed out in April. But the damage has already been done.

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Catherine Read @cathread.bsky.social · 1d

Wiltshire has made the top ten for solar farms🌞- brilliant to see the county playing its part contributing to electricity generation. With more farms in the pipeline, we may even rise up the table.
💚#RenewableEnergy is the best.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ed Miliband approves UK’s biggest solar farm at Lincolnshire site

Tillbridge solar farm will be built in county where Reform UK’s anti-renewables agenda has rising support

www.theguardian.com

Catherine Read @cathread.bsky.social · 1d

Both Eastonia and Denmark digital IDs, were developed in their own countries and based on trust in their government, after many years of having a non digital ID. Plus they have legislation that allows the public to know who has accessed their information.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Digital ID: Danes and Estonians find it ‘pretty uncontroversial’

Citizens have enrolled with little opposition, albeit with some concerns over security and privacy, as UK plans system

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Catherine Read @cathread.bsky.social · 2d

Brilliant. I told @zackpolanski.bsky.social he should go on your program because it was so good and you are both fantastic. I bet your were rubbing your knees. Look forward to listening. 💚

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Catherine Read @cathread.bsky.social · 2d

Living through drought and wildfires in Australia during 2019, I realised that we, humans, had caused this. Becoming a grandmother cemented the need for me to do something to protect their future. Only the Green Party takes climate crisis seriously.
I joined join.greenparty.org.uk why don't you?

Join the Green Party

Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

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Catherine Read @cathread.bsky.social · 2d

To prevent future flooding we can’t keep building defences taller and higher. It needs reconnecting rivers to their floodplains, restoring wetlands, and planting woodlands to intercept rainfall. Nature is essential and needs protections to protect us.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

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Catherine Read @cathread.bsky.social · 4d

Wow.

Turn Left Media @turnleftmedia.co.uk · 4d

The Green Party now have 100,000 members, increasing their number by 55% since @zackpolanski.bsky.social became leader

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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 7d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
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Catherine Read @cathread.bsky.social · 4d

More fungi at #FollyWood

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Catherine Read @cathread.bsky.social · 4d

As a farmer or landowner, do you care enough to create flower-rich margins around your fields?
Wild bees and butterflies are disappearing fast and they need this action to survive.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years

Number of endangered butterfly species also surging amid habitat destruction and global heating, finds study

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Catherine Read @cathread.bsky.social · 5d

Lost a big part of a beech tree from storm Amy at #FollyWood

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 6d

Rather than investing in our recycling industry – which could create 5,000 jobs, as well as having an environmental benefit – the UK is dumping more and more plastic waste on other countries.

It’s shortsighted, it’s irresponsible, and it’s immoral.
https://bit.ly/437k75H

Britain missing out on potential £2bn recycling industry by exporting plastic waste

Exclusive: Government failure to close loophole allows 600,000 tonnes to be shipped elsewhere each year

www.theguardian.com

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 6d

Chuck Collins, great-grandson of a meat tycoon turned progressive economist, lays it all out. The billionaire class is out of control, without a moral compass and unhindered by the rules.

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Catherine Read @cathread.bsky.social · 6d

Fantastic news.
The Nobel Peace prize goes to Maria Corina Machado
For promoting democratic rights.

www.nobelpeaceprize.org/articles/nob...

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 to Maria Corina Machado - Nobel Peace Prize

She is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to...

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Catherine Read @cathread.bsky.social · 6d

Covid is on the rise. If possible stay outside or in well ventilated areas. Open windows and ask for ventilation at workplaces, schools and hospitals.
Wear a mask if you have covid, please don’t spread the virus. We all deserve clean air.
#CleanAir

Dan O'Hara @skeuomorphology.bsky.social · 7d

The PCR positivity map is out, and UKHSA have finally deigned to describe covid activity as "medium".

UKHSA national positivity is 13.23%.

Adjusted for non-reporting we make it 15.27%.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 6d

Polanski expertly dismantling the "rich people will move if we tax them" narrative, while Denham nimbly demonstrates how very patriotic such people are.

Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 7d

Former Head of Comms for the IEA, Annabel Denham, says the super rich will leave if we have a wealth tax.

Yes, the very same IEA that brought us Liz Truss’ disastrous mini budget. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Green Party leader Zack Polanski explains that their taxable assets can’t leave. #bbcqt

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Catherine Read @cathread.bsky.social · 6d

Opportunities for green jobs boosting the economy being squandered by this government. We have the technology to recycle plastic but the government allow export to foreign countries losing billions of pounds to the UK economy.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Britain missing out on potential £2bn recycling industry by exporting plastic waste

Exclusive: Government failure to close loophole allows 600,000 tonnes to be shipped elsewhere each year

www.theguardian.com

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Catherine Read @cathread.bsky.social · 6d

“Peace prizes are earned through sustained commitment, not through social media tantrums and not from intimidation”
Contrary to what Trump claims, not everyone say he must have the Nobel peace prize.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 7d

Well done to all the brilliant local councillors who have lowered the speed limits their roads to 20mph - often in the face of much hostility.

There is now irrefutable evidence to show your bold decisions are saving lives.

Thank you!