Helen K Jeffrey
@imhelenj.bsky.social
Creative, crossing the streams. Former Associate Publisher @londonreview.bsky.social Supports @goodchancecal Has a #heatpump. #communityenergy. Gloucestershire mostly. Chairperson of Forest Community Energy ⚡
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Helen K Jeffrey
@imhelenj.bsky.social
· Nov 6
A Forest Community's Battle for Affordable, Clean Energy
YouTube video by Climate Centre
youtu.be
Here is a lovely short film about Forest Community Energy made by @climatecentreuk.bsky.social when Octopus Energy came to visit the Forest of Dean.. youtu.be/KliF6Abpee8?...
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🌿 Do your bit for just £1! 🌿
For less than a chocolate bar, you can become a member of MaidEnergy!
We want to make our membership accessible for all to contribute to clean energy locally.
For more information email us at [email protected]
#sustainableinvesting #communityenergy
For less than a chocolate bar, you can become a member of MaidEnergy!
We want to make our membership accessible for all to contribute to clean energy locally.
For more information email us at [email protected]
#sustainableinvesting #communityenergy
December 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
🌿 Do your bit for just £1! 🌿
For less than a chocolate bar, you can become a member of MaidEnergy!
We want to make our membership accessible for all to contribute to clean energy locally.
For more information email us at [email protected]
#sustainableinvesting #communityenergy
For less than a chocolate bar, you can become a member of MaidEnergy!
We want to make our membership accessible for all to contribute to clean energy locally.
For more information email us at [email protected]
#sustainableinvesting #communityenergy
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Hero!❤️
Bryan Reisberg spends one day a week taking shelter dogs out of their kennels, slipping them in a “adopt me” backpack and carrying them around New York.
His goal is to help people see shelter dogs the way he does: curious, sweet and full of potential.
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
Bryan Reisberg spends one day a week taking shelter dogs out of their kennels, slipping them in a “adopt me” backpack and carrying them around New York.
His goal is to help people see shelter dogs the way he does: curious, sweet and full of potential.
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
He carries shelter dogs around the city in a backpack to help get them adopted
Bryan Reisberg has taken out 11 dogs on city adventures. Ten of them were adopted after his videos published.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Hero!❤️
Bryan Reisberg spends one day a week taking shelter dogs out of their kennels, slipping them in a “adopt me” backpack and carrying them around New York.
His goal is to help people see shelter dogs the way he does: curious, sweet and full of potential.
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
Bryan Reisberg spends one day a week taking shelter dogs out of their kennels, slipping them in a “adopt me” backpack and carrying them around New York.
His goal is to help people see shelter dogs the way he does: curious, sweet and full of potential.
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
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Celebrating our first Christmas season as a CBS!
Why not gift yourself a membership for just £1.00 and help speed us on our way?
www.forestcommunityenergy.org.uk/membership/
#communityenergy
Why not gift yourself a membership for just £1.00 and help speed us on our way?
www.forestcommunityenergy.org.uk/membership/
#communityenergy
December 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Celebrating our first Christmas season as a CBS!
Why not gift yourself a membership for just £1.00 and help speed us on our way?
www.forestcommunityenergy.org.uk/membership/
#communityenergy
Why not gift yourself a membership for just £1.00 and help speed us on our way?
www.forestcommunityenergy.org.uk/membership/
#communityenergy
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Environment Agency bosses have been accused of "failing" to tell a cross-party committee of peers about three large-scale illegal waste sites - including one that was recently exposed by Sky News.
news.sky.com/story/offici...
news.sky.com/story/offici...
Officials accused of 'failing' to tell Lords about three large-scale illegal waste sites
Sky News has been investigating the scourge of waste crime all year, exposing how criminal gangs involved in drugs, weapons and people trafficking can make "millions" from illegally dumping waste.
news.sky.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Environment Agency bosses have been accused of "failing" to tell a cross-party committee of peers about three large-scale illegal waste sites - including one that was recently exposed by Sky News.
news.sky.com/story/offici...
news.sky.com/story/offici...
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Cook County, where I grew up, has just made guaranteed basic income a permanent social safety net. Some very much needed good news.
December 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Cook County, where I grew up, has just made guaranteed basic income a permanent social safety net. Some very much needed good news.
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GB Energy’s new plan puts community energy front and centre, backing 1,000+ local projects so communities can generate power and keep the benefits.
With £15bn private finance unlocked and 15GW of clean power by 2030, this is how a fair energy transition starts⚡🌱
With £15bn private finance unlocked and 15GW of clean power by 2030, this is how a fair energy transition starts⚡🌱
GB Energy to target oil and gas-dependent areas in 10,000-job drive
Great British Energy is aiming to create a .minimum of 10,000 jobs in the next five years - with a focus on areas historically dependent on oil and gas such as Aberdeen and the North-east.
www.agcc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 9:21 AM
GB Energy’s new plan puts community energy front and centre, backing 1,000+ local projects so communities can generate power and keep the benefits.
With £15bn private finance unlocked and 15GW of clean power by 2030, this is how a fair energy transition starts⚡🌱
With £15bn private finance unlocked and 15GW of clean power by 2030, this is how a fair energy transition starts⚡🌱
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Want to turn your community’s climate ambition into action? 🌱
Our FREE Community Energy Roadmap is the toolkit you’ve been waiting for.
Step-by-step support. Practical advice. Real impact.
👉 Explore it today younity.coop/interactive-...
Our FREE Community Energy Roadmap is the toolkit you’ve been waiting for.
Step-by-step support. Practical advice. Real impact.
👉 Explore it today younity.coop/interactive-...
December 4, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Want to turn your community’s climate ambition into action? 🌱
Our FREE Community Energy Roadmap is the toolkit you’ve been waiting for.
Step-by-step support. Practical advice. Real impact.
👉 Explore it today younity.coop/interactive-...
Our FREE Community Energy Roadmap is the toolkit you’ve been waiting for.
Step-by-step support. Practical advice. Real impact.
👉 Explore it today younity.coop/interactive-...
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(1/2) Last week I hosted a productive roundtable on community energy at @thealbanyse8.bsky.social
It was great to learn from experts, including @seloncommenergy.bsky.social @repoweringlondon.bsky.social @ceiclub.bsky.social and many more.
It was great to learn from experts, including @seloncommenergy.bsky.social @repoweringlondon.bsky.social @ceiclub.bsky.social and many more.
December 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
(1/2) Last week I hosted a productive roundtable on community energy at @thealbanyse8.bsky.social
It was great to learn from experts, including @seloncommenergy.bsky.social @repoweringlondon.bsky.social @ceiclub.bsky.social and many more.
It was great to learn from experts, including @seloncommenergy.bsky.social @repoweringlondon.bsky.social @ceiclub.bsky.social and many more.
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My write up on the @nebriefing.bsky.social here, please consider signing the letter calling on Kier Starmer and media heads to televise a briefing to the country:
theconversation.com/what-we-told...
theconversation.com/what-we-told...
What we told UK leaders about climate and nature at a national emergency briefing
With so many influential people in the room, the hope was to see a tipping point in the engagement of political, faith, business and cultural leaders.
theconversation.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
My write up on the @nebriefing.bsky.social here, please consider signing the letter calling on Kier Starmer and media heads to televise a briefing to the country:
theconversation.com/what-we-told...
theconversation.com/what-we-told...
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Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
December 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
Someone is playing the piano and it is lovely to hear. Honkytonk.
December 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Someone is playing the piano and it is lovely to hear. Honkytonk.
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Yes, the dressing of the Hookland Christmas tree starts today. Yes, there will be our first Bluesky #HookWatch at Christmas. This can be a season of bruises and many of us need our little apotropaic rituals.
December 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Yes, the dressing of the Hookland Christmas tree starts today. Yes, there will be our first Bluesky #HookWatch at Christmas. This can be a season of bruises and many of us need our little apotropaic rituals.
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Never forget: Art matters.
‘Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia’
December 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Never forget: Art matters.
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For folk magic is often a serious of fragile truces with the land, a series of appeasements made to nature’s legion of spirits. The cunning folk are diplomats to enfolding otherworlds. Few in the Foreign Office could match their skill. - Dr. M. Benn, 1981 lecture at Woden College, Weychester
December 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
For folk magic is often a serious of fragile truces with the land, a series of appeasements made to nature’s legion of spirits. The cunning folk are diplomats to enfolding otherworlds. Few in the Foreign Office could match their skill. - Dr. M. Benn, 1981 lecture at Woden College, Weychester
And a big 'thank you' to @josef.is for pointing us towards @ghost.org when we were looking for a platform to build our new website and newsletter on.
Our November Newsletter is published! 🙂
It's the first time we have sent a newsletter using the Ghost platform. Do take a look...
#communityenergy
www.forestcommunityenergy.org.uk/november-new...
It's the first time we have sent a newsletter using the Ghost platform. Do take a look...
#communityenergy
www.forestcommunityenergy.org.uk/november-new...
November Newsletter
Our new website is live!
A big step forward. Explore, read the latest news, and let us know what you think....
If you have any news, ideas or suggestions for the website do let us know.
Celebratin...
www.forestcommunityenergy.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
And a big 'thank you' to @josef.is for pointing us towards @ghost.org when we were looking for a platform to build our new website and newsletter on.
Reposted by Helen K Jeffrey
Reposted by Helen K Jeffrey
A small town installed solar panels on the school roof.
Now, the school saves money, teaches children about sustainability, AND powers nearby homes.
That’s the magic of community energy...everyone wins 🏆🌟
Interested in learning what your community could do?
www.younity.coop/what-is-comm...
Now, the school saves money, teaches children about sustainability, AND powers nearby homes.
That’s the magic of community energy...everyone wins 🏆🌟
Interested in learning what your community could do?
www.younity.coop/what-is-comm...
December 2, 2025 at 10:34 AM
A small town installed solar panels on the school roof.
Now, the school saves money, teaches children about sustainability, AND powers nearby homes.
That’s the magic of community energy...everyone wins 🏆🌟
Interested in learning what your community could do?
www.younity.coop/what-is-comm...
Now, the school saves money, teaches children about sustainability, AND powers nearby homes.
That’s the magic of community energy...everyone wins 🏆🌟
Interested in learning what your community could do?
www.younity.coop/what-is-comm...
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'Tis the season after all!
Celebrating our first Christmas season as a CBS!
Why not gift yourself a membership for just £1.00 and help speed us on our way?
www.forestcommunityenergy.org.uk/membership/
#communityenergy
Why not gift yourself a membership for just £1.00 and help speed us on our way?
www.forestcommunityenergy.org.uk/membership/
#communityenergy
December 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
'Tis the season after all!
'Tis the season after all!
Celebrating our first Christmas season as a CBS!
Why not gift yourself a membership for just £1.00 and help speed us on our way?
www.forestcommunityenergy.org.uk/membership/
#communityenergy
Why not gift yourself a membership for just £1.00 and help speed us on our way?
www.forestcommunityenergy.org.uk/membership/
#communityenergy
December 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
'Tis the season after all!
Happy 10th birthday to the wonderful @goodchancetheatre.bsky.social x
Hello BlueSky! We're so happy to be joining this platform. New to Good Chance's work with displaced artists? Did you catch our internationally-acclaimed productions #TheJungle, #TheWalkWithLittleAmal or even the brand new #KyotoPlay? Find out more about us here: www.goodchance.org.uk/about 🧡
Our Story — Good Chance
www.goodchance.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Happy 10th birthday to the wonderful @goodchancetheatre.bsky.social x
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‘There was rage and pain and iron in him’: Patrick Marber on the great hits – and fond smokes – he had with Tom #Stoppard - www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/d... lovely piece about a great human being
‘There was rage and pain and iron in him’: Patrick Marber on the great hits – and fond smokes – he had with Tom Stoppard
The director worked with theatre colossus Tom Stoppard on two smash hits. Here, he remembers their heated rehearsals, the night they stayed up watching Jaws – and the last four cigarettes they smoked ...
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:54 AM
‘There was rage and pain and iron in him’: Patrick Marber on the great hits – and fond smokes – he had with Tom #Stoppard - www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/d... lovely piece about a great human being
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Check out our new #UpTheEnergy campaign, which calls on Government to support #CommunityEnergy with some simple, easy to introduce policies.
uptheenergy.co.uk
@ashden-org.bsky.social @ifnotnowagency.bsky.social @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social @regeninsight.bsky.social @cse.org.uk
uptheenergy.co.uk
@ashden-org.bsky.social @ifnotnowagency.bsky.social @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social @regeninsight.bsky.social @cse.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Check out our new #UpTheEnergy campaign, which calls on Government to support #CommunityEnergy with some simple, easy to introduce policies.
uptheenergy.co.uk
@ashden-org.bsky.social @ifnotnowagency.bsky.social @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social @regeninsight.bsky.social @cse.org.uk
uptheenergy.co.uk
@ashden-org.bsky.social @ifnotnowagency.bsky.social @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social @regeninsight.bsky.social @cse.org.uk
A lovely owl from the lantern parade yesterday made from willow and paper.
November 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A lovely owl from the lantern parade yesterday made from willow and paper.
So many 'firsts' recently! Great work team!
Our November Newsletter is published! 🙂
It's the first time we have sent a newsletter using the Ghost platform. Do take a look...
#communityenergy
www.forestcommunityenergy.org.uk/november-new...
It's the first time we have sent a newsletter using the Ghost platform. Do take a look...
#communityenergy
www.forestcommunityenergy.org.uk/november-new...
November Newsletter
Our new website is live!
A big step forward. Explore, read the latest news, and let us know what you think....
If you have any news, ideas or suggestions for the website do let us know.
Celebratin...
www.forestcommunityenergy.org.uk
November 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
So many 'firsts' recently! Great work team!
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25yrs ago the Countryside Rights of Way Act opened up landscapes for public access – but left many without a right to enjoy inland waters💧
Today we remember that milestone – and renew the call for fair access to inland waters.
Read more by Ben Seal, @PaddleUK: www.wcl.org.uk/the-crow-act...
Today we remember that milestone – and renew the call for fair access to inland waters.
Read more by Ben Seal, @PaddleUK: www.wcl.org.uk/the-crow-act...
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
25yrs ago the Countryside Rights of Way Act opened up landscapes for public access – but left many without a right to enjoy inland waters💧
Today we remember that milestone – and renew the call for fair access to inland waters.
Read more by Ben Seal, @PaddleUK: www.wcl.org.uk/the-crow-act...
Today we remember that milestone – and renew the call for fair access to inland waters.
Read more by Ben Seal, @PaddleUK: www.wcl.org.uk/the-crow-act...