This is a very wealthy country. We can invest in a public run railways to both improve them and cut fares so that those who aren't well off can afford to use them, and we can also invest in our decimated bus services. The money is there; what's missing is political willpower.

The latest stats are out on the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions. They show: ❌Agriculture - emissions rising ❌Industry - emissions rising ❌Waste management - emissions rising ❌Transport - emissions higher than in 2010 Not good enough! We must do more to tackle climate change

Brilliant! the UK has been depressingly slow with it's uptake for wind farms, particularly offshore, and this may help to encourage the transition to clean energy. newscientist.com/article/221723…

If we can’t call racism by its name, diversity will remain a meaningless buzzword | Priyamvada Gopal theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

feels great to be done, a wonderful day finishing my MSc from UoM!!

I have a sense of grim foreboding about this. The government's releasing us from lockdown before it has the pandemic under control. If reopening schools etc proves disastrous, people won't accept a 2nd lockdown, as the govt has torched its credibility. Then we're completely stuck

the only thing better than this would be if the council owned and ran all local transport but this is definitely a great step! Buses in Manchester need a lot of improvement to be responsive to demand and to actually work for the people so hopefully this will help

fab paper, very interesting discussion of crises during covid and climate change

we love community mapping and disco balls Kirsty Watkinson

What are the issues with data on sewage dumping? Prof Jamie Woodward (Manchester Geography) outlines the problems with current sewage pollution data and explains why water companies are not doing enough to address these issues via new @geogdirections blog 👇 orlo.uk/f69ED

Had an absolute wonderful weekend with Hannah Charles volunteering at the bluedot for #CommunityMapping (peep Jodrell Bank’s Lovell telescope!)

had a really interesting couple of days at Unlock Net Zero live, listening to practitioners and experts in the social housing decarbonisation field discuss issues around retrofit and energy governance. #UnlockNetZeroLive

What we need now is financial investment to make sure Awaabs Law is funded and enforced as well as commitment to fund the construction of quality Social Housing across the country. Without that we’ll be back to square one and the lives of those living in poor housing will

Join FPRN on 🗓️ 17th and 18th June in📍Salford for the latest on everything fuel and energy poverty. Tours of Energy House. Brand new research. Policy and activism. #energy #poverty #netzero #greatermanchester fuelpovertyresearch.net/events/event/i…