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Martin Wright
@MartinFutures
Writer, editor, speaker, enthusiast - stories of a hopeful future. Director,
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@MartinFutures
I spent some of last summer and autumn cycling round the UK, meeting some of the extraordinary people making #rewilding happen Here's one result! Do let me know what you think... #meettherewilders
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Rewilding Britain
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#MeetTheRewilders behind the @WildHaweswater project, where upland farming and nature recovery in the Lake District go hand-in-hand. 🌳🦅 Hear about the challenges they faced and their successes from @leeinthelakes. Words/images by @MartinFutures rewildingbritain.org.uk/explore-rewild
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Should be a great debate, with a few agricultural sparks flying, I hope! See you there?
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futerra
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Join @1GarethWynJones, @mark_lynas,@MartinFutures and @greensolitaire this month at @hayfestival - to discuss whether a rewilded Britain is a feasible vision, or the worst kind of ‘techtopian’ fantasy Sign up now bit.ly/3LtYkeN
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@MartinFutures
One can but hope... While T20 takes over the known universe (for good or ill), England's attempt to launch a new, muddled version is looking increasingly silly and isolated - particularly as we invented T20 in the first place!
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Lawrence Booth
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Lots of chat behind the scenes right now about English domestic cricket, but one scenario - outlined here - is that the men’s Hundred becomes a T20 tournament, with possible involvement from the National (formerly Minor) Counties dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/
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Martin Konečný
@MartinKonecny
With Israel ruled by an extreme right government advancing annexation, Von der Leyen delivers an uncritically flattering message, ignoring Palestinian rights and employing the trope that "Israel made the desert bloom", erasing Palestinian history. 1/2
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EU in Israel 🇪🇺🇮🇱
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Today we celebrate 75 years of Israel's independence and friendship with Europe. A special message from President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen:
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Robert Macfarlane
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Look, I know it’s a little thing in the grand scheme, but — ⁦every
@superdrug
⁩ pharmacy now offers recycling points for medicine blister packs, which otherwise end up in landfill in their millions. Bag them up, take them in every month or two. Easy. Pls RT/spread the word.
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Excellent and timely initiative - can't wait to experience it in action!
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Hay Festival
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Time is running out. This #EarthDay, join Planet Assembly, a bold new Hay Festival project convening experts and citizens to develop practical solutions to our climate and nature crisis. Sign up now hayfestival.com/planet-assembly
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That's what we do
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Peter Jukes
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The Collapse of BuzzFeed News Shows Why For-Profit Journalism is a Disaster ❧ Current Affairs “We need independent media institutions that are not dependent on advertisers or investors.” How about subscribers? ⁦@BylineTimes⁩ currentaffairs.org/2023/04/the-co
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@MartinFutures
Dry cleaning? Just how posh is your office?
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🌹 Stephanie Nadi Olson
@StephanieNOlson
After 3 years of WFH, all these people being forced back into the office are calculating the cost of going to an office- something we never thought about before. Dry cleaning, dog walking, paying for parking at work, etc. The literal cost of going to work.
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Seán Wood
@SeanDaganWood
While we know news avoidance is on the rise, I have an unscientific hypothesis that it's also becoming more socially acceptable to not watch/read/listen to the news. (Whether that's good or bad is another thing). Thoughts?
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Jon Burke 🌎
@jonburkeUK
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I’m afraid you’ve misread my tweet. I’m highly critical of investment in *new* nuclear and have consistently been. However, shutting down *existing* nuclear plants in a way that leads to increases in ghgs is no cause for celebration.
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Jon Burke 🌎
@jonburkeUK
I see the global warming deniers, fossil fuel fanatics, and nuclear bros are out in force lying about why we need more of the energy that got us into this mess. Let's be clear, fossil fuels and nuclear are being squeezed out because they're dangerous, unreliable, and expensive.
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Chris Packham
@ChrisGPackham
This is the reality of factory farming . And it’s not just in Texas it’s here in the UK too . We just don’t see it because most of us don’t see farming face to face - just packaged food in supermarkets . It’s time to wake up - farming has to change
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Stewart Abbott
@birdman1066
18,000 cows killed in Texas dairy farm explosion. 18,000, in one barn? What kind of hell is that? bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-
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Little Green Space 🐝
@LGSpace
How many people out there are giving wildflowers a chance by leaving areas of their gardens uncut this year? Please RT if you are offering a lifeline to pollinators like bees, butterflies, moths, hoverflies and bats by mowing less 🐝
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James Murray
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What’s particularly weird about it is it is actually a more effective attack if you don’t try and ascribe a malign intent that simply isn’t there on the government’s part. The attack works better as just another example where the government has simply failed on its own terms.
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James Murray
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One of the many disappointing things about that Labour ad is that the criminal justice system (along with the NHS, the trains, the rivers, the schools, etc, etc) is absolutely broken and yet the Opposition still can’t find a truly effective way to land that message.
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