Helga Vanthournout
@wealthofflows.bsky.social
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Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has was sentenced to 20 years in jail on Monday following his conviction on foreign collusion and sedition charges. Full story: buff.ly/6MkP1zn
February 9, 2026 at 4:03 AM
Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has was sentenced to 20 years in jail on Monday following his conviction on foreign collusion and sedition charges. Full story: buff.ly/6MkP1zn
Much needed
🌊I have a new gig. 🌊
Introducing: OCEAN EMPIRE, my new column about U.S ocean policy and foreign affairs for @sciencepolitics.bsky.social.
We are a brand new online magazine housed at Georgetown University. I'm thrilled to bring in-depth news analysis about what's happening to 70% of our planet.
Introducing: OCEAN EMPIRE, my new column about U.S ocean policy and foreign affairs for @sciencepolitics.bsky.social.
We are a brand new online magazine housed at Georgetown University. I'm thrilled to bring in-depth news analysis about what's happening to 70% of our planet.
Ocean Empire - Science Politics
Introducing a new column breaking down seismic shifts in ocean policy and explaining why they matter.
sciencepolitics.org
February 5, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Much needed
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"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 3:32 PM
"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
On #InternationalHolocaustRememberanceDay, such an important read. It is key that we illustrate and protect human values and principles, and the threats they face. This does not need to diminish the specifically Jewish experience nor tarnish the remembrance it deserves.
For @forward.com, I wrote about Anne Frank, ICE, and what we risk in making - and in refusing to ever make - comparisons
forward.com/opinion/8009...
forward.com/opinion/8009...
What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank hiding from ICE
Is it ok to invoke Anne Frank in discussing kids hiding from ICE? Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum disagree.
forward.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:42 PM
On #InternationalHolocaustRememberanceDay, such an important read. It is key that we illustrate and protect human values and principles, and the threats they face. This does not need to diminish the specifically Jewish experience nor tarnish the remembrance it deserves.
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January 27, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Clear language on why the US Senate should ratify this landmark #HighSeasTreaty (hint: it serves US interests well).
But then again, maybe they will just go in and grab what they want, come hell or high water (see what I did there)
#BBNJ
But then again, maybe they will just go in and grab what they want, come hell or high water (see what I did there)
#BBNJ
thehill.com
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Clear language on why the US Senate should ratify this landmark #HighSeasTreaty (hint: it serves US interests well).
But then again, maybe they will just go in and grab what they want, come hell or high water (see what I did there)
#BBNJ
But then again, maybe they will just go in and grab what they want, come hell or high water (see what I did there)
#BBNJ
"We need to ask ourselves, on both sides of the Atlantic, if we want to live in a world where democracy is recast as weakness, truth as opinion and justice as an option." — Alain Berset, secretary general of the Council of Europe (NYT 19 January 2026)
Opinion | I’m the Secretary General of the Council of Europe. This Is Something I Thought I’d Never Have to Write.
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:54 PM
"We need to ask ourselves, on both sides of the Atlantic, if we want to live in a world where democracy is recast as weakness, truth as opinion and justice as an option." — Alain Berset, secretary general of the Council of Europe (NYT 19 January 2026)
Scandalous situation* cleverly captured by @kjoules.org
*the persistent poor safety record in the construction industry, not SCMP’s growing insignificance
*the persistent poor safety record in the construction industry, not SCMP’s growing insignificance
January 18, 2026 at 7:08 AM
Scandalous situation* cleverly captured by @kjoules.org
*the persistent poor safety record in the construction industry, not SCMP’s growing insignificance
*the persistent poor safety record in the construction industry, not SCMP’s growing insignificance
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Looking through their publications, it's a shame they're ignored. Seems like a goldmine for city planners.
November 12, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Looking through their publications, it's a shame they're ignored. Seems like a goldmine for city planners.
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I still remember Nikos Tsafos’ comments on a webinar 5 years ago that oil, for all its useful physical attributes, isn’t inherently reliable but rather that we put enormous resources into creating a system that creates the reliability.
Trump just said what it is all about.
The sooner the world sheds its addiction to fossil fuels, the better. The alternatives are available, plentiful and cheaper.
The sooner the world sheds its addiction to fossil fuels, the better. The alternatives are available, plentiful and cheaper.
January 3, 2026 at 8:04 PM
I still remember Nikos Tsafos’ comments on a webinar 5 years ago that oil, for all its useful physical attributes, isn’t inherently reliable but rather that we put enormous resources into creating a system that creates the reliability.
Opportunity for young environmental engineers in #Lethbridge careers.lethbridge.ca/en/annonce/4...
Sustainability Engineer
Opportunity for Sustainability Engineer at City of Lethbridge in T1J 0P6 Lethbridge!
careers.lethbridge.ca
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Opportunity for young environmental engineers in #Lethbridge careers.lethbridge.ca/en/annonce/4...
“Even exceptionally old trees can rot in the middle, which is one of their features that makes them so important for wildlife, but could mean the tree is called defective by the logging industry. This could mean the tree is dismissed as waste wood. But a tree standing up in a forest is not waste.”
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
“Even exceptionally old trees can rot in the middle, which is one of their features that makes them so important for wildlife, but could mean the tree is called defective by the logging industry. This could mean the tree is dismissed as waste wood. But a tree standing up in a forest is not waste.”
Well then. Everything hunky-dory! The #Alberta government must feel encouraged.
HK authorities have confirmed the eligibility of all 161 election candidates who will vie for 90 seats in the second "patriots only" Legislative Council (LegCo) next month. In full: buff.ly/Gk7AxRq
All 161 candidates pass nat. sec vetting to enter HK's 'all patriots' legislative race
HK authorities have confirmed the eligibility of all 161 election candidates who will vie for 90 seats in the second "patriots only" Legislative Council (LegCo) next month.
buff.ly
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Well then. Everything hunky-dory! The #Alberta government must feel encouraged.
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📢 Do you wish to know more about how a fully-fledged #EU circular economy model can foster resilience, competitiveness and innovation in the #European economy?
✅Join @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu's hybrid event on Dec 9!
👉Info & Registration: tinyurl.com/4arbjdy2
#CircularEconomy
✅Join @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu's hybrid event on Dec 9!
👉Info & Registration: tinyurl.com/4arbjdy2
#CircularEconomy
Can a fully-fledged EU circular economy model foster resilience, competitiveness and innovation in the European economy? (December 9) - PubAffairs Bruxelles
We are delighted to invite you to a hybrid event which will be held on Tuesday, 9th of December at 17.00. The event will consist of an afternoon of discussion on circular economy. This event will also...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
📢 Do you wish to know more about how a fully-fledged #EU circular economy model can foster resilience, competitiveness and innovation in the #European economy?
✅Join @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu's hybrid event on Dec 9!
👉Info & Registration: tinyurl.com/4arbjdy2
#CircularEconomy
✅Join @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu's hybrid event on Dec 9!
👉Info & Registration: tinyurl.com/4arbjdy2
#CircularEconomy
If you could use some tales of resilience and hope among continued political mayhem, please read this beautiful thread. And I’m all for @crowshair.bsky.social suggestion for a collab with @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
November 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
If you could use some tales of resilience and hope among continued political mayhem, please read this beautiful thread. And I’m all for @crowshair.bsky.social suggestion for a collab with @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
"with the oil & gas industry alone setting up over 1100 documented meetings here in Ottawa (an average of 5 meetings every working day of the year)" 😳
But also: "If we didn’t have power to make change,these industries wouldn’t spend millions of dollars a year lobbying to try and suppress our voices"
But also: "If we didn’t have power to make change,these industries wouldn’t spend millions of dollars a year lobbying to try and suppress our voices"
Lobbying for Change
We're made to feel small, but together we can make good things happen!
open.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:10 AM
"with the oil & gas industry alone setting up over 1100 documented meetings here in Ottawa (an average of 5 meetings every working day of the year)" 😳
But also: "If we didn’t have power to make change,these industries wouldn’t spend millions of dollars a year lobbying to try and suppress our voices"
But also: "If we didn’t have power to make change,these industries wouldn’t spend millions of dollars a year lobbying to try and suppress our voices"
November 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Critical #wildfire research in the pipeline for @jedokaplan.bsky.social @ucalgary.bsky.social
“The project will support the acquisition of state-of-the-art infrastructure to develop a completely new way of characterizing wildfire fuels in Canadian forests, shrublands and grasslands.” #AI
“The project will support the acquisition of state-of-the-art infrastructure to develop a completely new way of characterizing wildfire fuels in Canadian forests, shrublands and grasslands.” #AI
UCalgary receives more than $4.7 million in funding for innovative research
Federal government announces winners of the John R. Evans Leaders Fund
www.ucalgary.ca
November 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Critical #wildfire research in the pipeline for @jedokaplan.bsky.social @ucalgary.bsky.social
“The project will support the acquisition of state-of-the-art infrastructure to develop a completely new way of characterizing wildfire fuels in Canadian forests, shrublands and grasslands.” #AI
“The project will support the acquisition of state-of-the-art infrastructure to develop a completely new way of characterizing wildfire fuels in Canadian forests, shrublands and grasslands.” #AI
Now we need one to respond to “eVs in condo buildings will make the building blow up and/or the parkade collapse under the excess weight.” Please?
November 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Now we need one to respond to “eVs in condo buildings will make the building blow up and/or the parkade collapse under the excess weight.” Please?
Compelling @envdefensefund.bsky.social analysis of a #BuyCanadian opportunity for climate, wallets, and socio-econ. resilience.
The @mark-carney.bsky.social govt must complete its #methane regulation: it is viable, private sector-financed, and hugely beneficial, incl. for the O&G industry itself.
The @mark-carney.bsky.social govt must complete its #methane regulation: it is viable, private sector-financed, and hugely beneficial, incl. for the O&G industry itself.
Canada’s 34,000-Job Opportunity: Finalizing Canada's Methane Regulations - Market Forces
This post by Environmental Defense Fund economist Luis Fernández Intriago; Senior Campaign Manager, Canada, Ari Pottens; Senior Manager of Economics and Policy Analysis, Maureen Lackner; and former ED...
blogs.edf.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Compelling @envdefensefund.bsky.social analysis of a #BuyCanadian opportunity for climate, wallets, and socio-econ. resilience.
The @mark-carney.bsky.social govt must complete its #methane regulation: it is viable, private sector-financed, and hugely beneficial, incl. for the O&G industry itself.
The @mark-carney.bsky.social govt must complete its #methane regulation: it is viable, private sector-financed, and hugely beneficial, incl. for the O&G industry itself.
This sad example from Germany illustrates why #CircularEconomy requires systems thinking, not only product redesign. The building’s design and execution were top notch but an ownership change resulted in demolition without capitalizing on any of its many reuse and vaporization features.
Investor from Texas, US demolishes; brainlessly, recently constructed, pioneering timber building designed for circular economy in Germany.
www.db-bauzeitung.de/diskurs/komm...
www.db-bauzeitung.de/diskurs/komm...
Zertrümmerte Nachhaltigkeit
Die ophelis-Halle in Bad Schönborn zeigt, wie nachhaltige Baukunst im Rausch globaler Investoren, auf der Strecke bleibt.
www.db-bauzeitung.de
November 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This sad example from Germany illustrates why #CircularEconomy requires systems thinking, not only product redesign. The building’s design and execution were top notch but an ownership change resulted in demolition without capitalizing on any of its many reuse and vaporization features.
I hope Mark Carney is following this closely. Bessent’s comments re Canada gave off similar vibes (not the childish Blue Jays jab).
1/When @himself.bsky.social and I wrote about the future of US economic coercion we hoped that the tools could be used for global collective goods like climate. Now US “evaluating sanctions on officials sponsoring activist-driven climate policies”’
on.ft.com/4qJF3Ko
on.ft.com/4qJF3Ko
US accused of ‘bully-boy’ tactics to sink climate deal
Officials say ‘threats’ used to derail net zero deal for shipping industry ripped up rules of global diplomacy
on.ft.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I hope Mark Carney is following this closely. Bessent’s comments re Canada gave off similar vibes (not the childish Blue Jays jab).
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European negotiators were personally targeted by their American counterparts during a brutal negotiation over green shipping rules, European Commission officials told POLITICO.
This highly unusual gambit left diplomats shaken after the meeting.
This highly unusual gambit left diplomats shaken after the meeting.
US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules
Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S.
www.politico.eu
November 3, 2025 at 8:11 AM
European negotiators were personally targeted by their American counterparts during a brutal negotiation over green shipping rules, European Commission officials told POLITICO.
This highly unusual gambit left diplomats shaken after the meeting.
This highly unusual gambit left diplomats shaken after the meeting.
Looks like the previous #Calgary #CityCouncil took many if not most of the right steps towards more #housing for Calgarians. Given that many newly elected councilors used big words around housing in their campaigns, may we trust them to continue the good work?
Image from @strongtowns.org toolkit
Image from @strongtowns.org toolkit
October 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Looks like the previous #Calgary #CityCouncil took many if not most of the right steps towards more #housing for Calgarians. Given that many newly elected councilors used big words around housing in their campaigns, may we trust them to continue the good work?
Image from @strongtowns.org toolkit
Image from @strongtowns.org toolkit