Norma Saunders
@normasaunders.bsky.social
BA (Hons), Cert M.Dir, FRSA, FLS. Climate & nature emergency. Principal, chaplain, writer. Vegan. eco-socialist. eco-spirituality. Art & ceramic history. Heritage. Mother. Your Party junoenterprise.blogspot.com
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They could have taxed wealth but instead they've gone for the working class AGAIN and people are thanking them 🤣 country is fucked!
November 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
They could have taxed wealth but instead they've gone for the working class AGAIN and people are thanking them 🤣 country is fucked!
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Another destructive solar project approved in n CA -- “There's nothing environmentally friendly about cutting down 4,000 oak trees, the most ecologically valuable native tree in all of North America. Over 2,000 other species depend on them." 🌎 www.capradio.org/articles/202...
SMUD’s controversial Coyote Creek solar project moves forward
The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the project at a packed Tuesday meeting, where over 150 people showed up to voice concerns or support.
www.capradio.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Another destructive solar project approved in n CA -- “There's nothing environmentally friendly about cutting down 4,000 oak trees, the most ecologically valuable native tree in all of North America. Over 2,000 other species depend on them." 🌎 www.capradio.org/articles/202...
brilliant www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHk7...
The Curse of The Leafblower
YouTube video by Fairyland Trust
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November 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
brilliant www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHk7...
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Ancient mosaic of a reclining skeleton, holding a drinking cup, with a jug of wine and bread rolls. The caption is generally translated as “Enjoy Your Life” ~ life is fleeting, so enjoy it while you can (Antioch, est 3rd century BC)
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November 14, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Ancient mosaic of a reclining skeleton, holding a drinking cup, with a jug of wine and bread rolls. The caption is generally translated as “Enjoy Your Life” ~ life is fleeting, so enjoy it while you can (Antioch, est 3rd century BC)
mymodernmet.com/skeleton-mos...
mymodernmet.com/skeleton-mos...
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Fossil fuel industry appear to love COP more than climate activists. Insidious people hijacking our planet.
The problem with the climate regime in one article: With fewer people attending COP30 "one in every 25 participants at this year’s UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist." It is "the largest concentration of fossil fuel lobbyists at COP" and up 12% from COP29 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Fossil fuel industry appear to love COP more than climate activists. Insidious people hijacking our planet.
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🎉 Green WIN! 🎉
💚 Congratulations to Peter Campbell of Canterbury Green Party on being elected in Wincheap ward!
💚 Congratulations to Peter Campbell of Canterbury Green Party on being elected in Wincheap ward!
November 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
🎉 Green WIN! 🎉
💚 Congratulations to Peter Campbell of Canterbury Green Party on being elected in Wincheap ward!
💚 Congratulations to Peter Campbell of Canterbury Green Party on being elected in Wincheap ward!
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"Almost all Palestinians have been displaced to ‘red zone’ where no reconstruction is planned"
Half of Gaza to be stolen, the Palestinians to be left to survive in the remaining ruins of their country
Monstrous, criminal and indefensible
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Half of Gaza to be stolen, the Palestinians to be left to survive in the remaining ruins of their country
Monstrous, criminal and indefensible
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
US military planning for divided Gaza with ‘green zone’ secured by international and Israeli troops
Exclusive: Almost all Palestinians have been displaced to ‘red zone’ where no reconstruction is planned
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
"Almost all Palestinians have been displaced to ‘red zone’ where no reconstruction is planned"
Half of Gaza to be stolen, the Palestinians to be left to survive in the remaining ruins of their country
Monstrous, criminal and indefensible
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Half of Gaza to be stolen, the Palestinians to be left to survive in the remaining ruins of their country
Monstrous, criminal and indefensible
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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"Zeteo Scoured 26,000 Epstein Docs. Here’s What We Found"
Read what Epstein said about Trump, and his emails with Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Ehud Barak, and Larry Summers.
Read what Epstein said about Trump, and his emails with Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Ehud Barak, and Larry Summers.
Zeteo Scoured 26,000 Epstein Docs. Here’s What We Found
You can search and review the emails here. Read what Epstein said about Trump, and his emails with Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Ehud Barak, and Larry Summers.
zeteo.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
"Zeteo Scoured 26,000 Epstein Docs. Here’s What We Found"
Read what Epstein said about Trump, and his emails with Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Ehud Barak, and Larry Summers.
Read what Epstein said about Trump, and his emails with Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Ehud Barak, and Larry Summers.
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As usual Trump cries “ hoax” but in emails obtained by Congress, Epstein writes that Trump not only knew of his conduct with underage girls but
he spent hours at his house with one of Epstein’s victims.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
he spent hours at his house with one of Epstein’s victims.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
As usual Trump cries “ hoax” but in emails obtained by Congress, Epstein writes that Trump not only knew of his conduct with underage girls but
he spent hours at his house with one of Epstein’s victims.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
he spent hours at his house with one of Epstein’s victims.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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One thing we can count on: every claim Trump makes is a lie
That cringy stuff he has put all over our WH walls, is from Home Depot
That cringy stuff he has put all over our WH walls, is from Home Depot
November 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
One thing we can count on: every claim Trump makes is a lie
That cringy stuff he has put all over our WH walls, is from Home Depot
That cringy stuff he has put all over our WH walls, is from Home Depot
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@theguardian.com is killin' it with coverage of #COP30.
Big emitters LOVE emissions trading.
This piece is consistent with my own research that shows that IETA, which has big fossil as members, and pushes for emissions trading has more delegates than any other NGO at COP *for two decades*
Big emitters LOVE emissions trading.
This piece is consistent with my own research that shows that IETA, which has big fossil as members, and pushes for emissions trading has more delegates than any other NGO at COP *for two decades*
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
@theguardian.com is killin' it with coverage of #COP30.
Big emitters LOVE emissions trading.
This piece is consistent with my own research that shows that IETA, which has big fossil as members, and pushes for emissions trading has more delegates than any other NGO at COP *for two decades*
Big emitters LOVE emissions trading.
This piece is consistent with my own research that shows that IETA, which has big fossil as members, and pushes for emissions trading has more delegates than any other NGO at COP *for two decades*
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The nocturnal work of the spider army, viewed in the dew-light.
#landscape #spiders #meadows #photography
#landscape #spiders #meadows #photography
October 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The nocturnal work of the spider army, viewed in the dew-light.
#landscape #spiders #meadows #photography
#landscape #spiders #meadows #photography
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#TerracottaTuesday
Two little baby feeders c. 320 BC, both made in Sicily, then Magna Graecia.
One Gnathian (style from Apulia) w ivy chain decoration; one w hippocamp figures.
And who wouldn't want to feed their baby through a mouse's tail??
#Ancient #Greek #Pottery 🏺
BM
Two little baby feeders c. 320 BC, both made in Sicily, then Magna Graecia.
One Gnathian (style from Apulia) w ivy chain decoration; one w hippocamp figures.
And who wouldn't want to feed their baby through a mouse's tail??
#Ancient #Greek #Pottery 🏺
BM
October 21, 2025 at 9:36 AM
#TerracottaTuesday
Two little baby feeders c. 320 BC, both made in Sicily, then Magna Graecia.
One Gnathian (style from Apulia) w ivy chain decoration; one w hippocamp figures.
And who wouldn't want to feed their baby through a mouse's tail??
#Ancient #Greek #Pottery 🏺
BM
Two little baby feeders c. 320 BC, both made in Sicily, then Magna Graecia.
One Gnathian (style from Apulia) w ivy chain decoration; one w hippocamp figures.
And who wouldn't want to feed their baby through a mouse's tail??
#Ancient #Greek #Pottery 🏺
BM
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My new paper on how to increase sustainable food consumption is starting to gather media attention 🙌
Link to paper:
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sus...
#sustainablefood #sustainability
Link to paper:
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sus...
#sustainablefood #sustainability
October 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
My new paper on how to increase sustainable food consumption is starting to gather media attention 🙌
Link to paper:
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sus...
#sustainablefood #sustainability
Link to paper:
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sus...
#sustainablefood #sustainability
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My new paper on how to increase sustainable food consumption is continuing to gather positive media attention 🙌
Link to paper:
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sus...
#sustainablefood #sustainability
#vegan #greennudge
Link to paper:
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sus...
#sustainablefood #sustainability
#vegan #greennudge
October 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
My new paper on how to increase sustainable food consumption is continuing to gather positive media attention 🙌
Link to paper:
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sus...
#sustainablefood #sustainability
#vegan #greennudge
Link to paper:
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sus...
#sustainablefood #sustainability
#vegan #greennudge
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Dear friends, please read this. 😔
We owe it to our one and only living planet, not to turn away. To be uninformed is to be powerless indeed. We have to face reality, no matter how painful, to have ANY hope at all of driving the positive change we need.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We owe it to our one and only living planet, not to turn away. To be uninformed is to be powerless indeed. We have to face reality, no matter how painful, to have ANY hope at all of driving the positive change we need.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’
Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Dear friends, please read this. 😔
We owe it to our one and only living planet, not to turn away. To be uninformed is to be powerless indeed. We have to face reality, no matter how painful, to have ANY hope at all of driving the positive change we need.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We owe it to our one and only living planet, not to turn away. To be uninformed is to be powerless indeed. We have to face reality, no matter how painful, to have ANY hope at all of driving the positive change we need.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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These images show the first time we ever saw the worlds of our Solar System in close-up | BBC Sky at Night Magazine buff.ly/im6wbmd
Interesting article recalling first encounters with our planetary neighbours, and the ingenious science and engineering they required.
#Astronomy #Space #Mars #Moon
Interesting article recalling first encounters with our planetary neighbours, and the ingenious science and engineering they required.
#Astronomy #Space #Mars #Moon
These images show the first time we ever saw the worlds of our Solar System in close-up | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
The first close-up images of the planets and moons of our Solar System sent back by spacecraft and landers.
www.skyatnightmagazine.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
These images show the first time we ever saw the worlds of our Solar System in close-up | BBC Sky at Night Magazine buff.ly/im6wbmd
Interesting article recalling first encounters with our planetary neighbours, and the ingenious science and engineering they required.
#Astronomy #Space #Mars #Moon
Interesting article recalling first encounters with our planetary neighbours, and the ingenious science and engineering they required.
#Astronomy #Space #Mars #Moon
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October rose. ✨
October 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
October rose. ✨
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Coming soon on Counting the Earth...
🔥 We discuss the changing nature of wildfires with UKCEH fire scientist Dr Doug Kelley. And we're at Holt Heath in Dorset, scene of a devastating wildfire in August, to talk to Dorset & Wiltshire Fire Service.
🎧🧪 Subscribe on your favourite #podcast provider!
🔥 We discuss the changing nature of wildfires with UKCEH fire scientist Dr Doug Kelley. And we're at Holt Heath in Dorset, scene of a devastating wildfire in August, to talk to Dorset & Wiltshire Fire Service.
🎧🧪 Subscribe on your favourite #podcast provider!
October 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Coming soon on Counting the Earth...
🔥 We discuss the changing nature of wildfires with UKCEH fire scientist Dr Doug Kelley. And we're at Holt Heath in Dorset, scene of a devastating wildfire in August, to talk to Dorset & Wiltshire Fire Service.
🎧🧪 Subscribe on your favourite #podcast provider!
🔥 We discuss the changing nature of wildfires with UKCEH fire scientist Dr Doug Kelley. And we're at Holt Heath in Dorset, scene of a devastating wildfire in August, to talk to Dorset & Wiltshire Fire Service.
🎧🧪 Subscribe on your favourite #podcast provider!
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"This investigation is the heart-breaking story of just one artificial earth, at one hunt over one year. It is a story that is repeated in countless remote woodlands up and down the country, as fox hunts continue to rear foxes to be hunted by their hounds."
www.huntsabs.org.uk/against-all-...
www.huntsabs.org.uk/against-all-...
Against All Odds - A Fox Struggles Against Persecution At The Hands Of The Wynnstay Hunt - Hunt Saboteurs Association
On the day that hunters gather around the country to promote the smokescreen of ‘trail hunting’, the HSA has been passed a ground-breaking, year-long investigation into a single artificial earth used…
www.huntsabs.org.uk
October 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
"This investigation is the heart-breaking story of just one artificial earth, at one hunt over one year. It is a story that is repeated in countless remote woodlands up and down the country, as fox hunts continue to rear foxes to be hunted by their hounds."
www.huntsabs.org.uk/against-all-...
www.huntsabs.org.uk/against-all-...
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Craig Murray: “It is a maxim in Scots law that the law cannot be absurd. To claim that Palestine Action is a terrorist organisation is plainly absurd. This proscription is a politically motivated action in support of a genocide, and it is poisoning Scottish civil society.”
Former British diplomat challenges Palestine Action ban in Scotland
Former British diplomat challenges Palestine Action ban in Scotland
Craig Murray argues proscription order contravenes rights to freedom of speech under European convention of human rights
A former British diplomat has served a petition challenging the ban on Palestine Action in Scotland.
The case, brought by Craig Murray, is separate to the judicial review of the proscription decision being brought at the high court in London and could lead to a situation whereby the ban is ruled unlawful in Scotland but not in England and Wales. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Craig Murray: “It is a maxim in Scots law that the law cannot be absurd. To claim that Palestine Action is a terrorist organisation is plainly absurd. This proscription is a politically motivated action in support of a genocide, and it is poisoning Scottish civil society.”
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We stand at a crossroads: socialism or barbarism. The stakes couldn’t be higher — we have to win.
That means making Your Party truly democratic: to democratise the state, and in turn, the economy.
I’ll always fight for grassroots, member-led democracy.
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/soci...
That means making Your Party truly democratic: to democratise the state, and in turn, the economy.
I’ll always fight for grassroots, member-led democracy.
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/soci...
Socialism or Barbarism
Ahead of her talk at TWT, Zarah Sultana argues that we must ensure that initiatives like Your Party are inclusive projects to which the whole Left can contribute — and use them to take the socialist s...
tribunemag.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
We stand at a crossroads: socialism or barbarism. The stakes couldn’t be higher — we have to win.
That means making Your Party truly democratic: to democratise the state, and in turn, the economy.
I’ll always fight for grassroots, member-led democracy.
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/soci...
That means making Your Party truly democratic: to democratise the state, and in turn, the economy.
I’ll always fight for grassroots, member-led democracy.
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/soci...
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#RedSquirrelAwarenessDay this little one was scampering in Argaty woodland, Doune. Sat for hours watching their endless enthusiasm caching hazelnuts. 🧡
October 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
#RedSquirrelAwarenessDay this little one was scampering in Argaty woodland, Doune. Sat for hours watching their endless enthusiasm caching hazelnuts. 🧡