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Marcus Grant
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Just starting out in this place.
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?

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...
What can sociology offer urban public health?
Published in Critical Public Health (Vol. 29, No. 5, 2019)
doi.org

Reposted by Gavin L. Foster, Marcus Grant

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 4h
🔥 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.
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

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 18h
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...
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

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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 22h
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

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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 23h
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

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Garry Stone @garrystone.bsky.social · 1d
"If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear,"

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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 1d
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...

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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 1d
"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 👇
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

Reposted by Marcus Grant, David Murakami Wood

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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 1d
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.

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Gil Penalosa @penalosag.bsky.social · 1d
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.

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Joerg Lau @joerglau.bsky.social · 2d
„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.

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Veteran Fighting Fascist @vetsfighfascist.bsky.social · 2d
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...
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

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 2d
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
drpauldorfman.bsky.social Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 4d
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/
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

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 2d
This is good...

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Cities & Health @citiesxhealth.bsky.social · 3d
📰 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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Cities & Health @citiesxhealth.bsky.social · 3d
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
Developing a socio-environmental deprivation index for monitoring intra-urban health inequalities – City Know-how
City Know-hows
www.cityknow-how.com

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Evelyne de Leeuw @evdle.bsky.social · 3d
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...
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

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Evelyne de Leeuw @evdle.bsky.social · 3d
Buy my novels here:
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

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Richard Corbett @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 3d
“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...
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

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 4d
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/
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

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 4d
'Shaping Neighbourhoods is unique in combining all aspects of spatial planning of neighbourhoods and towns whilst emphasising positive outcomes for people’s health and global sustainability. New edition retains combination of radicalism, advice and pragmatism that made earlier editions so popular.'

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 4d
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...
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

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Tim Thomas @timofnewbury.bsky.social · 6d
Views from the European Sleeper train between Berlin Hbf & Ostbahnhof.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 6d
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 Peter Thorne, David Johnson, Marcus Grant

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 6d
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
A bar chart showing how climate-related extremes spiked the costs of cocoa, vegetables, coffee, and more. An infographic showing how heat, flood and drought affect all aspects of the food supply chain.

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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 7d
"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
Celia Imrie’s Travel Secrets | Why I NEVER Travel By Plane
YouTube video by Travel Secrets The Podcast
youtu.be

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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 7d
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...

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 8d
Healthy Planet anyone?

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 8d
Interview on #R4Today with Sundar Pichai,
CEO of Alphabet and Google,~ 'we can't let energy constraints hold back the economy'. Also ~ 'AI facts need checking'.

There we have it.
Homo sapiens is now Homo kamikaze - from an AI boss.
@scientistsforxr.earth @xrglobal.bsky.social
sarahviktoria.bsky.social Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 8d
Brute forcing "intelligence" by expanding the data and the speeding the data processing still won't provide anything that could be called intelligence and is in itself unintelligent.

This is the opposite of what we should be doing. We should be using human intelligence to reduce energy use #r4today