Marcus Grant
@marcusxgrant.bsky.social
Just starting out in this place.
Editor-in-Chief of Cities & Health journal. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rcah20
Editor-in-Chief of Cities & Health journal. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rcah20
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Marcus Grant
@marcusxgrant.bsky.social
· May 19
What can sociology offer urban public health?
Published in Critical Public Health (Vol. 29, No. 5, 2019)
doi.org
What can sociology offer urban public health?
Just discovered this blindly good article! Perfect segue between the objectives of 'town' planning and population health and well-being.
Viva #HealthyUrbanPlanning #Cities4Health
doi.org/10.1080/0958...
Just discovered this blindly good article! Perfect segue between the objectives of 'town' planning and population health and well-being.
Viva #HealthyUrbanPlanning #Cities4Health
doi.org/10.1080/0958...
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“Approving a £49 billion runway while hoping to meet environmental goals is pure wishful thinking. Particularly hypocritical for this to come just days after UK ministers talked about phasing out fossil fuels at COP30.”
www.greenpeace.org.uk/press-centre/
www.greenpeace.org.uk/press-centre/
Greenpeace UK Press Centre
For journalists and media professionals: breaking news, comments, pictures, resources and the Greenpeace press team contact details.
www.greenpeace.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
“Approving a £49 billion runway while hoping to meet environmental goals is pure wishful thinking. Particularly hypocritical for this to come just days after UK ministers talked about phasing out fossil fuels at COP30.”
www.greenpeace.org.uk/press-centre/
www.greenpeace.org.uk/press-centre/
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🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 6:49 AM
🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
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"If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear,"
November 25, 2025 at 9:51 AM
"If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear,"
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It's nearly time for our end-of-year party! Join us online on Monday 15th December to celebrate #FlightFree2025 with our fave travel stories from the year, and test your flight-free knowledge with our legendary quiz.
Register now: www.tickettailor.com/events/fligh...
Register now: www.tickettailor.com/events/fligh...
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
It's nearly time for our end-of-year party! Join us online on Monday 15th December to celebrate #FlightFree2025 with our fave travel stories from the year, and test your flight-free knowledge with our legendary quiz.
Register now: www.tickettailor.com/events/fligh...
Register now: www.tickettailor.com/events/fligh...
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Apple is anti-union.
Tesla is anti-union.
Amazon is anti-union.
McDonald's is anti-union.
Starbucks is anti-union.
Google is anti-union.
Walmart is anti-union.
These mega-corporations aren’t on workers’ side and their actions make it painfully clear.
Tesla is anti-union.
Amazon is anti-union.
McDonald's is anti-union.
Starbucks is anti-union.
Google is anti-union.
Walmart is anti-union.
These mega-corporations aren’t on workers’ side and their actions make it painfully clear.
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Apple is anti-union.
Tesla is anti-union.
Amazon is anti-union.
McDonald's is anti-union.
Starbucks is anti-union.
Google is anti-union.
Walmart is anti-union.
These mega-corporations aren’t on workers’ side and their actions make it painfully clear.
Tesla is anti-union.
Amazon is anti-union.
McDonald's is anti-union.
Starbucks is anti-union.
Google is anti-union.
Walmart is anti-union.
These mega-corporations aren’t on workers’ side and their actions make it painfully clear.
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Climate breakdown is a global health problem
Mashhad, a city of 3.5 million, is nearing Day Zero with reservoir levels below 3%. Iran’s president warns that Tehran and other cities may soon face evacuation.
This is climate collapse in real time. When water fails, society follows. We must rise to stop it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
This is climate collapse in real time. When water fails, society follows. We must rise to stop it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Water levels below 3% in dam reservoirs for Iran’s second city, say reports
Storage dwindles in Mashhad, home to 4 million people, as country struggles with drought
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Climate breakdown is a global health problem
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It’s honestly disheartening to see a third runway at Heathrow pushed forward when we desperately need less aviation. Communities, climate scientists, and campaigners keep raising the alarm, and decisions like this show just how much work there’s still to do. #Climate www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Heathrow's plan for longer third runway chosen by government
Under the selected plan, the runway would be up to 3.5km long and require a new road tunnel under the airport.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
It’s honestly disheartening to see a third runway at Heathrow pushed forward when we desperately need less aviation. Communities, climate scientists, and campaigners keep raising the alarm, and decisions like this show just how much work there’s still to do. #Climate www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Just another day with Ben-Gvir's police force, whose goal is to humiliate and oppress Palestinians across the land. This time, the police decided to break into a children's play in East Jerusalem and disperse everyone with threats...
Police raid Palestinian children's play in East Jerusalem theater on Ben-Gvir's orders
The Far-right National Security Minister Ordered Police to Raid the El-Hakawati Theater in East Jerusalem, With Authorities Saying a Musical Show Held in It Was Linked to the Palestinian Authority and...
www.haaretz.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Just another day with Ben-Gvir's police force, whose goal is to humiliate and oppress Palestinians across the land. This time, the police decided to break into a children's play in East Jerusalem and disperse everyone with threats...
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"It’s ludicrous that aviation doesn’t pay fuel tax, especially now that Rachel Reeves is making noises about a tax on electric vehicles. If we’re looking for easy wins for revenue, just look to the skies."
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
End the tax break that makes flying cheaper than trains | Letters
Letters: Airlines benefit from a tax system that helps them keep fares low, writes Anna Hughes
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
"It’s ludicrous that aviation doesn’t pay fuel tax, especially now that Rachel Reeves is making noises about a tax on electric vehicles. If we’re looking for easy wins for revenue, just look to the skies."
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
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20 years ago I created the Toronto based non-profit org, Walk & Bike for Life, and spoke about 8 80 Cities.
We changed the name to 8 80 Cities, talk & do about walking and cycling FOR LIFE, equity.
Amazing ride. I've worked in over 350 cities. I hope to have contributed, I've done my very best.
We changed the name to 8 80 Cities, talk & do about walking and cycling FOR LIFE, equity.
Amazing ride. I've worked in over 350 cities. I hope to have contributed, I've done my very best.
November 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
20 years ago I created the Toronto based non-profit org, Walk & Bike for Life, and spoke about 8 80 Cities.
We changed the name to 8 80 Cities, talk & do about walking and cycling FOR LIFE, equity.
Amazing ride. I've worked in over 350 cities. I hope to have contributed, I've done my very best.
We changed the name to 8 80 Cities, talk & do about walking and cycling FOR LIFE, equity.
Amazing ride. I've worked in over 350 cities. I hope to have contributed, I've done my very best.
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The media needs to stop calling it a peace plan. It's a Republican surrender plan for Europe. Why? Because Republicans have embraced fascist plutocracy and Europe isn't.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/23/e...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/23/e...
Trump’s signals to Zelensky and Europe: Accept this plan or you’re on your own | CNN
The 28-point plan hammered out by US and Russian envoys and put to Ukraine this week came with a deadline and an implicit threat: Sign up or face the risk of being abandoned.
www.cnn.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The media needs to stop calling it a peace plan. It's a Republican surrender plan for Europe. Why? Because Republicans have embraced fascist plutocracy and Europe isn't.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/23/e...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/23/e...
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„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
Is this our future.
Our health and that of the planet blighted in perpituity, while so many fail to act?
We all have some agencyi n this, #ActNow.
#Publichealth
Our health and that of the planet blighted in perpituity, while so many fail to act?
We all have some agencyi n this, #ActNow.
#Publichealth
Shell forced to reveal true scale of Jackdaw’s climate impacts. Gas field would emit as much as 20 million UK cars driven for a year. 36 million tonnes CO2 equivalent over project’s lifetime.
www.greenpeace.org.uk/press-centre/
www.greenpeace.org.uk/press-centre/
Greenpeace UK Press Centre
For journalists and media professionals: breaking news, comments, pictures, resources and the Greenpeace press team contact details.
www.greenpeace.org.uk
November 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Is this our future.
Our health and that of the planet blighted in perpituity, while so many fail to act?
We all have some agencyi n this, #ActNow.
#Publichealth
Our health and that of the planet blighted in perpituity, while so many fail to act?
We all have some agencyi n this, #ActNow.
#Publichealth
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Buy my novels here:
www.bravenewbooks.nl/site/userweb...
(and good news: AAP will soon appear in English, and the Rimutaka Singularity in Dutch!)
www.bravenewbooks.nl/site/userweb...
(and good news: AAP will soon appear in English, and the Rimutaka Singularity in Dutch!)
The Rimutaka Singularity - Evelyne de Leeuw - Brave New Books
Evelyne de Leeuw is professor of Urban Health and Policy. She is a prolific author of scientific work with hundreds of peer reviewed articles and half a dozen books. Her fiction and faction enterprise...
www.bravenewbooks.nl
November 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Buy my novels here:
www.bravenewbooks.nl/site/userweb...
(and good news: AAP will soon appear in English, and the Rimutaka Singularity in Dutch!)
www.bravenewbooks.nl/site/userweb...
(and good news: AAP will soon appear in English, and the Rimutaka Singularity in Dutch!)
This is good...
“Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof”, says Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof | Jonathan Freedland
The autumn budget will mop up some damage, but the true source of the economic crisis is clear. The government should now fix it – tragically, it won’t, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
This is good...
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📰 Monitoring slum health through ecological deprivation indexes is a useful strategy to understand health inequalities within a city. The authors developed a socioenvironmental index capable of explaining health outcomes and differentiating areas with varying slum typologies and non-slum spaces.
November 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
📰 Monitoring slum health through ecological deprivation indexes is a useful strategy to understand health inequalities within a city. The authors developed a socioenvironmental index capable of explaining health outcomes and differentiating areas with varying slum typologies and non-slum spaces.
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Health inequality quantification research by Mirela Barros Serafim et al.
🔍#CityKnowHows
🔍Developing a socio-environmental deprivation index for monitoring intra-urban health inequalities
www.cityknow-how.com/developing-a...
#Cities4Health
🔍#CityKnowHows
🔍Developing a socio-environmental deprivation index for monitoring intra-urban health inequalities
www.cityknow-how.com/developing-a...
#Cities4Health
Developing a socio-environmental deprivation index for monitoring intra-urban health inequalities – City Know-how
City Know-hows
www.cityknow-how.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Health inequality quantification research by Mirela Barros Serafim et al.
🔍#CityKnowHows
🔍Developing a socio-environmental deprivation index for monitoring intra-urban health inequalities
www.cityknow-how.com/developing-a...
#Cities4Health
🔍#CityKnowHows
🔍Developing a socio-environmental deprivation index for monitoring intra-urban health inequalities
www.cityknow-how.com/developing-a...
#Cities4Health
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I don’t mind anymore if the Americans under Trump ever more try to kill themselves. They seem to deserve it.
But these new PFASs don’t stick to the USA…
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
But these new PFASs don’t stick to the USA…
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
Trump EPA Approves Its Second ‘Forever Chemical’ Pesticide in Two Weeks
The Environmental Protection Agency today approved the highly persistent pesticide isocycloseram for golf courses, lawns and food crops such as oranges, tomatoes, almonds, peas, and oats. The pesticid...
biologicaldiversity.org
November 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I don’t mind anymore if the Americans under Trump ever more try to kill themselves. They seem to deserve it.
But these new PFASs don’t stick to the USA…
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
But these new PFASs don’t stick to the USA…
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
Heads up, folk!
I have just noticed that my publication 'Shaping Neighbourhoods: For Local Health and Global Sustainability' has 25% discount for Xmas sale thingy [so-called Black Friday]
Very practical, with evidence-base, conceptual tools and **case studies**
www.routledge.com/Shaping-Neig...
I have just noticed that my publication 'Shaping Neighbourhoods: For Local Health and Global Sustainability' has 25% discount for Xmas sale thingy [so-called Black Friday]
Very practical, with evidence-base, conceptual tools and **case studies**
www.routledge.com/Shaping-Neig...
Shaping Neighbourhoods: For Local Health and Global Sustainability
Shaping Neighbourhoods is unique in combining all aspects of the spatial planning of neighbourhoods and towns whilst emphasising positive outcomes for people’s health and global sustainability. This n...
www.routledge.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Heads up, folk!
I have just noticed that my publication 'Shaping Neighbourhoods: For Local Health and Global Sustainability' has 25% discount for Xmas sale thingy [so-called Black Friday]
Very practical, with evidence-base, conceptual tools and **case studies**
www.routledge.com/Shaping-Neig...
I have just noticed that my publication 'Shaping Neighbourhoods: For Local Health and Global Sustainability' has 25% discount for Xmas sale thingy [so-called Black Friday]
Very practical, with evidence-base, conceptual tools and **case studies**
www.routledge.com/Shaping-Neig...
Reposted by Marcus Grant
Imagine if tech companies had made a wild capex bet on chasing clean energy, instead of inventing a plagiarism machine powered by **checks notes** extending the life of coal plants
November 20, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Imagine if tech companies had made a wild capex bet on chasing clean energy, instead of inventing a plagiarism machine powered by **checks notes** extending the life of coal plants
Reposted by Marcus Grant
Views from the European Sleeper train between Berlin Hbf & Ostbahnhof.
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Views from the European Sleeper train between Berlin Hbf & Ostbahnhof.
Reposted by Marcus Grant
Many people don't realise how climate change is already - not in the future - affecting our lives. And it's doing so in ways that, once our eyes are opened, we can notice!
For example, food. h/t @climatecentral.org
For example, food. h/t @climatecentral.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Many people don't realise how climate change is already - not in the future - affecting our lives. And it's doing so in ways that, once our eyes are opened, we can notice!
For example, food. h/t @climatecentral.org
For example, food. h/t @climatecentral.org
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Biking around SF daily, I just don't see the ambition from SFMTA or City Hall on our bike lane network. So few new projects, so few new protected bike lanes. The contrast to Paris, which is rolling out massive new protected lanes constantly, is so brutal.
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Biking around SF daily, I just don't see the ambition from SFMTA or City Hall on our bike lane network. So few new projects, so few new protected bike lanes. The contrast to Paris, which is rolling out massive new protected lanes constantly, is so brutal.
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Come and celebrate #FlightFree2025 with us at our end-of-year party!
"More fun than I thought it would be" ~ last year's rave review.
📆 Monday 15th December
⏰ 7.30pm
📍 Your Armchair (online)
www.tickettailor.com/events/fligh...
"More fun than I thought it would be" ~ last year's rave review.
📆 Monday 15th December
⏰ 7.30pm
📍 Your Armchair (online)
www.tickettailor.com/events/fligh...
November 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Come and celebrate #FlightFree2025 with us at our end-of-year party!
"More fun than I thought it would be" ~ last year's rave review.
📆 Monday 15th December
⏰ 7.30pm
📍 Your Armchair (online)
www.tickettailor.com/events/fligh...
"More fun than I thought it would be" ~ last year's rave review.
📆 Monday 15th December
⏰ 7.30pm
📍 Your Armchair (online)
www.tickettailor.com/events/fligh...
Reposted by Marcus Grant
"I don't fly. I travel by boat and train instead. It means I can't go everywhere, but it's a magnificent way to see the world." - Celia Imrie
youtu.be/s0AkpfHHF0M?...
#TravelByTrain #GreenTravel #EcoTourism
youtu.be/s0AkpfHHF0M?...
#TravelByTrain #GreenTravel #EcoTourism
Celia Imrie’s Travel Secrets | Why I NEVER Travel By Plane
YouTube video by Travel Secrets The Podcast
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"I don't fly. I travel by boat and train instead. It means I can't go everywhere, but it's a magnificent way to see the world." - Celia Imrie
youtu.be/s0AkpfHHF0M?...
#TravelByTrain #GreenTravel #EcoTourism
youtu.be/s0AkpfHHF0M?...
#TravelByTrain #GreenTravel #EcoTourism