Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️
@philsturgeon.com
Co-founder of @protect.earth, a registered charity (England & Wales) creating/restoring woodlands and other knackered ecosystems to sequester carbon and fight the biodiversity crisis. Electric van life, bikepacking, and boycotting fossil fuels.
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️
@philsturgeon.com
· Dec 11
Protecting River Roding from Japanese Knotweed — Protect Earth
Every habitat in the UK is at risk of being destroyed by invasive species. Woodlands, wetlands, grasslands, lakes, ponds, rivers, everything you can imagine is having a rough time thanks to various im...
www.protect.earth
Japanese Knotweed is an ecosystem killer in the UK, and I'm proud @protect.earth could get stuck in at River Roding to kill it right back. Here's a little information about what, why, and how. #biodiversity #wetlands www.protect.earth/articles/protecting-river-roding-from-japanese-knotweed
Get his ass.
The Prime Minister may lose his seat to the Green Party ?
January 14, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Get his ass.
Experts have been saying “the WCML is full” for years and “to increase capacity we need more rail” which is exactly the problem HS2 was designed to solve.
I cannot estimate how many eggs rejected that premise with no suggestions. “Just run more trains somehow.” www.railmagazine.com/features-lan...
I cannot estimate how many eggs rejected that premise with no suggestions. “Just run more trains somehow.” www.railmagazine.com/features-lan...
West Coast Main Line capacity crunch
West Coast Main Line capacity has hit the headlines again recently, but why does it have planners at Network Rail cautious? RICHARD WILCOCK reports
www.railmagazine.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Experts have been saying “the WCML is full” for years and “to increase capacity we need more rail” which is exactly the problem HS2 was designed to solve.
I cannot estimate how many eggs rejected that premise with no suggestions. “Just run more trains somehow.” www.railmagazine.com/features-lan...
I cannot estimate how many eggs rejected that premise with no suggestions. “Just run more trains somehow.” www.railmagazine.com/features-lan...
Solid work from @scottishgreens.org. All brilliant climate justice policies, and hopefully the shooting estate tax will open up rewilding and employment opportunities.
Scot Govt has finally agreed to @scottishgreens tax proposals to take on the super rich.💰
With a new tax on private jet flights✈️ and a 'mansion tax' on homes worth more than £1m 🏰 we can finally raise millions of pounds for the public services we all rely on.
greens.scot/news/greens-...
With a new tax on private jet flights✈️ and a 'mansion tax' on homes worth more than £1m 🏰 we can finally raise millions of pounds for the public services we all rely on.
greens.scot/news/greens-...
Greens secure taxes on super-rich to fund schools and childcare
Greens secure taxes on super-rich to fund schools and childcare - Greens secured a private jet tax, a mansion tax and an end to tax breaks for shooting estates.
greens.scot
January 14, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Solid work from @scottishgreens.org. All brilliant climate justice policies, and hopefully the shooting estate tax will open up rewilding and employment opportunities.
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Let's remind ourselves of what was promised in 2018 for £70bn of new east-west high speed lines across the north, thanks to far superior reporting to what we're seeing today: www.bbc.com/news/uk-engl...
January 14, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Let's remind ourselves of what was promised in 2018 for £70bn of new east-west high speed lines across the north, thanks to far superior reporting to what we're seeing today: www.bbc.com/news/uk-engl...
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They've lost the bozo king
“.. Are we really gonna be the Gestapo, 'Where's your papers?' Is that what we've come to?"
January 13, 2026 at 8:45 PM
They've lost the bozo king
Didn’t get land today.
Better get land tomorrow.
Better get land tomorrow.
January 13, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Didn’t get land today.
Better get land tomorrow.
Better get land tomorrow.
I need to hire a web designer who’s familiar with Astro to make a rebuild of the protect.earth website look like the current site or ideally better. I’m sick of Squarespace and I’ve got the implementation done but you need to make it look good. Looking for a fairly prompt turnaround on this one.
Protect Earth | Planting trees to save the earth
Our purpose is simple: we aim to plant, and help people plant, as many trees as possible in the UK to help mitigate the climate crisis.
protect.earth
January 13, 2026 at 6:53 PM
I need to hire a web designer who’s familiar with Astro to make a rebuild of the protect.earth website look like the current site or ideally better. I’m sick of Squarespace and I’ve got the implementation done but you need to make it look good. Looking for a fairly prompt turnaround on this one.
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UPDATED – Factcheck: How ‘scary-sounding numbers’ are being used to mislead the UK about net-zero | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/Be7nHfA
Read here: buff.ly/Be7nHfA
January 13, 2026 at 4:44 PM
UPDATED – Factcheck: How ‘scary-sounding numbers’ are being used to mislead the UK about net-zero | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/Be7nHfA
Read here: buff.ly/Be7nHfA
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The govt has launched a new TikTok that shows videos of people being handcuffed, bundled into police cars and frogmarched into detention centres. Why? It's a cruel, desperate bid for attention from a government failing to actually improve people's lives
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
'The Government's Deportations TikTok Is A New, Deeply Disturbing Low'
Writing for HuffPost UK, Green Party MP Carla Denyer said it was a "gross dereliction of duty" and simply unforgivable".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
January 13, 2026 at 5:16 PM
The govt has launched a new TikTok that shows videos of people being handcuffed, bundled into police cars and frogmarched into detention centres. Why? It's a cruel, desperate bid for attention from a government failing to actually improve people's lives
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
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“A diplomatic source said: 'The generals think Trump's Greenland plan is crazy and illegal. So they are trying to deflect him with other major military operations. They say it's like dealing with a five-year-old'.”
That’s an insult to 5-year olds.
A dangerous and corrupt moron.
That’s an insult to 5-year olds.
A dangerous and corrupt moron.
Trump 'orders US army chiefs to draw up plan to invade Greenland'
Donald Trump has ordered his special forces commanders to draw up a plan for the invasion of Greenland - but is being resisted by senior military figures, The Mail on Sunday has learned.
www.dailymail.co.uk
January 11, 2026 at 11:08 PM
“A diplomatic source said: 'The generals think Trump's Greenland plan is crazy and illegal. So they are trying to deflect him with other major military operations. They say it's like dealing with a five-year-old'.”
That’s an insult to 5-year olds.
A dangerous and corrupt moron.
That’s an insult to 5-year olds.
A dangerous and corrupt moron.
Just went for a walk around a secret ancient woodland with a forester helping us create a management plan.
Lots of Elm shoots being eaten, so we’ll use old pheasant fencing we’re removing to guard them.
Lots of Black Locust trees to cut down. Will use that timber for camp galley and fence posts.
Lots of Elm shoots being eaten, so we’ll use old pheasant fencing we’re removing to guard them.
Lots of Black Locust trees to cut down. Will use that timber for camp galley and fence posts.
January 13, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Just went for a walk around a secret ancient woodland with a forester helping us create a management plan.
Lots of Elm shoots being eaten, so we’ll use old pheasant fencing we’re removing to guard them.
Lots of Black Locust trees to cut down. Will use that timber for camp galley and fence posts.
Lots of Elm shoots being eaten, so we’ll use old pheasant fencing we’re removing to guard them.
Lots of Black Locust trees to cut down. Will use that timber for camp galley and fence posts.
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Building this to the same spec as HS2 will be construed as gold-plating, and hence a waste of money.
Building this to a lower spec will be construed as little different from the status quo, and hence a waste of money.
HS2 should have been built in full. What we've ended up with is HMT's bin fire.
Building this to a lower spec will be construed as little different from the status quo, and hence a waste of money.
HS2 should have been built in full. What we've ended up with is HMT's bin fire.
January 13, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Building this to the same spec as HS2 will be construed as gold-plating, and hence a waste of money.
Building this to a lower spec will be construed as little different from the status quo, and hence a waste of money.
HS2 should have been built in full. What we've ended up with is HMT's bin fire.
Building this to a lower spec will be construed as little different from the status quo, and hence a waste of money.
HS2 should have been built in full. What we've ended up with is HMT's bin fire.
Not enough people recognise that AI boosters are literally the same people as the NFT bozos who lied and failed to do anything relevant for years. They’ve just convinced a few more people their nonsense had any value this time, including governments.
We don’t dance on the grave of NFTs enough. I had a year where I was repeatedly told by bozos I was going to be irrelevant and extinct for not embracing them, I should be allowed a victory lap.
January 13, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Not enough people recognise that AI boosters are literally the same people as the NFT bozos who lied and failed to do anything relevant for years. They’ve just convinced a few more people their nonsense had any value this time, including governments.
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Trump has been promoting air pollution denial since at least 2017.
It’s taken different forms over the years, but the goal was always the same: to stop regulatory agencies from treating air pollution as a public health problem.
The Trump EPA has now reached that endpoint.
It’s taken different forms over the years, but the goal was always the same: to stop regulatory agencies from treating air pollution as a public health problem.
The Trump EPA has now reached that endpoint.
Air pollution denial is now EPA policy
Dirty air may kill people, but Trump's EPA won't count the bodies.
heated.world
January 13, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Trump has been promoting air pollution denial since at least 2017.
It’s taken different forms over the years, but the goal was always the same: to stop regulatory agencies from treating air pollution as a public health problem.
The Trump EPA has now reached that endpoint.
It’s taken different forms over the years, but the goal was always the same: to stop regulatory agencies from treating air pollution as a public health problem.
The Trump EPA has now reached that endpoint.
When anyone tries to use the “costs a lot” argument to scare you off decarbonizarion you have to ask “compared to what”.
Continuing to be fossil fuel reliant will cost drastically more than the net zero transition, so the only valid financial argument is: get on with it.
Continuing to be fossil fuel reliant will cost drastically more than the net zero transition, so the only valid financial argument is: get on with it.
Here's the other side of the story you won't read in today's headlines about the cost of meeting net zero targets. The reality is the IEA report is deeply flawed and based on some pretty blatant cherry-picking of clean tech costs. www.businessgreen.com/news/4524063...
'Cherry picking data': Government and analysts hit back at latest Tufton Street attacks on net zero
Right wing think tank accuses Climate Change Committee of overly optimistic clean tech cost estimates, but supporters of climate action counter that latest criticisms fail to recognise risks associate...
www.businessgreen.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:03 AM
When anyone tries to use the “costs a lot” argument to scare you off decarbonizarion you have to ask “compared to what”.
Continuing to be fossil fuel reliant will cost drastically more than the net zero transition, so the only valid financial argument is: get on with it.
Continuing to be fossil fuel reliant will cost drastically more than the net zero transition, so the only valid financial argument is: get on with it.
Any day now between the hours of 0900 and 1700 I am going to be told that something I have worked on for TWO YEARS has finally happened.
This thing has ruined my life.
Ruined any remainder of whatever sanity I had left.
Stressed every relationship I have.
And I could be done any moment forever.
This thing has ruined my life.
Ruined any remainder of whatever sanity I had left.
Stressed every relationship I have.
And I could be done any moment forever.
January 12, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Any day now between the hours of 0900 and 1700 I am going to be told that something I have worked on for TWO YEARS has finally happened.
This thing has ruined my life.
Ruined any remainder of whatever sanity I had left.
Stressed every relationship I have.
And I could be done any moment forever.
This thing has ruined my life.
Ruined any remainder of whatever sanity I had left.
Stressed every relationship I have.
And I could be done any moment forever.
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Didn’t get land today.
Better get land tomorrow.
Better get land tomorrow.
a man in a suit and tie is standing in a field of flowers .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in a field of flowers .
media.tenor.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Didn’t get land today.
Better get land tomorrow.
Better get land tomorrow.
Kemi Badenock is starting to make Liz Truss look like an absolute genius.
January 12, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Kemi Badenock is starting to make Liz Truss look like an absolute genius.
This story keeps on getting better and better.
White supremacist dating site profiles linked to Tory and Reform councillors:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
White supremacist dating site profiles linked to Tory and...
Conservative councillor suspended after her account is included on a leaked user list from WhiteDate site
observer.co.uk
January 12, 2026 at 10:32 AM
This story keeps on getting better and better.
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I am so so delighted that Cllr Ed Mundy has joined the Green Party.
This takes us up to 9 councillors at Oxford City Council.
Ed is a hugely experienced and principled councillor who will be a huge asset to @oxfordgreenparty.bsky.social
Welcome Ed!
This takes us up to 9 councillors at Oxford City Council.
Ed is a hugely experienced and principled councillor who will be a huge asset to @oxfordgreenparty.bsky.social
Welcome Ed!
🚨Former Labour Councillor Ed Mundy has defected to the Oxford @greenparty.org.uk
January 12, 2026 at 8:36 AM
I am so so delighted that Cllr Ed Mundy has joined the Green Party.
This takes us up to 9 councillors at Oxford City Council.
Ed is a hugely experienced and principled councillor who will be a huge asset to @oxfordgreenparty.bsky.social
Welcome Ed!
This takes us up to 9 councillors at Oxford City Council.
Ed is a hugely experienced and principled councillor who will be a huge asset to @oxfordgreenparty.bsky.social
Welcome Ed!
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Froze my ass off at the Iowa City anti-ICE rally, but it was worth it
January 11, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Froze my ass off at the Iowa City anti-ICE rally, but it was worth it
Feed the protests.
Somali aunties were giving out samosas to the anti ICE protesters in Minneapolis.
January 11, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Feed the protests.
Today was such a great day for fascist flag removal.
The long cold snap has caused metal lampposts to contract, leading to flags sliding down a little on non-tapered posts.
Combine that with heavy rains from the storm they’re weighed down, and once the wind died down they’re an easy jump and grab.
The long cold snap has caused metal lampposts to contract, leading to flags sliding down a little on non-tapered posts.
Combine that with heavy rains from the storm they’re weighed down, and once the wind died down they’re an easy jump and grab.
January 11, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Today was such a great day for fascist flag removal.
The long cold snap has caused metal lampposts to contract, leading to flags sliding down a little on non-tapered posts.
Combine that with heavy rains from the storm they’re weighed down, and once the wind died down they’re an easy jump and grab.
The long cold snap has caused metal lampposts to contract, leading to flags sliding down a little on non-tapered posts.
Combine that with heavy rains from the storm they’re weighed down, and once the wind died down they’re an easy jump and grab.
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Bravo to the Sheriff of Philly!
January 11, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Bravo to the Sheriff of Philly!