Kimberley Crofts 🍉
@ktcita.bsky.social
Just transitions, decarbonisation, and community-led planning researcher. Strategic and service designer, design activist, native plant gardener, sea swimmer, music lover. She/her Ph.D.
https://www.kimberleycrofts.com/
https://www.kimberleycrofts.com/
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BREAKING 🚨: The government has just announced that they are ending new oil and gas exploration in the UK and have started a plan for workers and communities to transition away from fossil fuels.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
BREAKING 🚨: The government has just announced that they are ending new oil and gas exploration in the UK and have started a plan for workers and communities to transition away from fossil fuels.
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Huge news from the UK today: after UN climate talks in which there was a massive fight over language on fossil fuels, the UK government today announced that it will in fact be keeping many millions of barrels of oil & gas in the ground. Deeds rather than just words for a change! 🧵
November 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM
A piece from a voice in the environment movement that I greatly admire: “There is no abundance without reciprocity and we will learn this, to our sorrow, in the years to come if we continue treating the natural world as a magic pudding that can be cut and cut and cut and will come again.”
The rewriting of Australia’s nature laws come as a relief, yet I can’t help feel a sense of foreboding | Georgina Woods
The rewriting of Australia’s nature laws come as a relief, yet I can’t help feel a sense of foreboding | Georgina Woods
The minister says quick approvals can happen while protecting the environment, but my experience tells me that haste brings unintended consequences
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I got a text from a biodiversity advocate around midday on Thursday asking me: are you glad, or sad?
I wasn’t sure how to reply. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:16 AM
A piece from a voice in the environment movement that I greatly admire: “There is no abundance without reciprocity and we will learn this, to our sorrow, in the years to come if we continue treating the natural world as a magic pudding that can be cut and cut and cut and will come again.”
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The “debate”.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
November 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The “debate”.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
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I loved this episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social with @triofrancos.bsky.social so much! Incredibly insightful and intellectually courageous discussion of the geopolitics of the green transition and the tough trade-offs it involves - and an excellent reminder that technology *is* material.
Extraction w/ Thea Riofrancos
Featuring Thea Riofrancos on Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. The green energy transition requires a vast array of inputs: copper, cobalt, rare earth elements, and the focus of this disc...
thedigradio.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I loved this episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social with @triofrancos.bsky.social so much! Incredibly insightful and intellectually courageous discussion of the geopolitics of the green transition and the tough trade-offs it involves - and an excellent reminder that technology *is* material.
Tariq Ali will be delivering the annual @cssgj.bsky.social lecture on Gaza and the demise of international law and order. It’s a terrible time for Australia (5am start) but worth it. December 12. #FreePalestine
Eventbrite link:
Eventbrite link:
Gaza and the Demise of International Law and Order
Tariq Ali delivers the CSSGJ Annual Lecture 2025: Gaza and the demise of international law and global order
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November 26, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Tariq Ali will be delivering the annual @cssgj.bsky.social lecture on Gaza and the demise of international law and order. It’s a terrible time for Australia (5am start) but worth it. December 12. #FreePalestine
Eventbrite link:
Eventbrite link:
OMG this is awful.
The images are apocalyptic
Dozens killed in Hong Kong high-rise residential fire
www.npr.org/2025/11/26/n...
Dozens killed in Hong Kong high-rise residential fire
www.npr.org/2025/11/26/n...
Death toll in Hong Kong high-rise fire rises to 36, with 279 reported missing
Hong Kong leader John Lee has said 36 people were reported killed in the fire that spread through a dense high-rise residential housing complex Wednesday. He said another 279 people were reported miss...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
OMG this is awful.
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“A recent study published in The Journal of Pediatrics adds yet another data point…finding that suicidality scores dropped significantly an average of two years and up to five years after patients received gender-affirming treatment.”
Gender affirming care helps save young trans lives. It’s simple.
Gender affirming care helps save young trans lives. It’s simple.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
“A recent study published in The Journal of Pediatrics adds yet another data point…finding that suicidality scores dropped significantly an average of two years and up to five years after patients received gender-affirming treatment.”
Gender affirming care helps save young trans lives. It’s simple.
Gender affirming care helps save young trans lives. It’s simple.
Elizabeth Farrelly is (as usual) a fairly lone media voice in critique of the NSW Government planning reforms that were quietly approved this month.
Prohibiting the public interest
The new New South Wales Environmental Planning and Assessment (Planning System Reforms) Bill 2025, which slid through parliament in November with bipartisan support and little press coverage, is “trus...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Elizabeth Farrelly is (as usual) a fairly lone media voice in critique of the NSW Government planning reforms that were quietly approved this month.
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Australia’s new Guarantee of Origin scheme gives Traditional Owners and First Nations groups a new set of tools to hold clean energy developers accountable and to leverage an emerging policy framework for lasting value.
Our fact sheet assets.nationbuilder.com/fncen/pages/... #auspol #cleanenergy
Our fact sheet assets.nationbuilder.com/fncen/pages/... #auspol #cleanenergy
November 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Australia’s new Guarantee of Origin scheme gives Traditional Owners and First Nations groups a new set of tools to hold clean energy developers accountable and to leverage an emerging policy framework for lasting value.
Our fact sheet assets.nationbuilder.com/fncen/pages/... #auspol #cleanenergy
Our fact sheet assets.nationbuilder.com/fncen/pages/... #auspol #cleanenergy
Highly recommend this book for you or anyone you know with interests spanning climate change, ecological protection, industrialization, and modern art. You know, the usual stuff.
Taking a cue from @onceatrophic.bsky.social to let you know this would be a great time to purchase my Van Gogh book, now 30% off. Beautiful full-color reproductions of Van Gogh's art & a completely new view of this iconic modern artist. Use code GIFT30 thru Dec. 5: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
November 25, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Highly recommend this book for you or anyone you know with interests spanning climate change, ecological protection, industrialization, and modern art. You know, the usual stuff.
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‘A landmark report, The Right to Power — Keeping First Nations' communities connected on prepayment, found nearly 9,000 households were impacted by frequent disconnections that are "undermining health, wellbeing and economic participation".’
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Constant power denied to 65,000 customers forced to pay upfront or disconnect
Communities on prepaid power meters face regular disconnections amid 40 degree-plus heat, meaning no aircon, food rotting in the fridge and long, hot walks to get reconnected.
www.abc.net.au
November 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
‘A landmark report, The Right to Power — Keeping First Nations' communities connected on prepayment, found nearly 9,000 households were impacted by frequent disconnections that are "undermining health, wellbeing and economic participation".’
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Three actions you can take – you choose. knittingnannas.org/2025/11/24/a...
Action of the Week 24th Nov 2025
Welcome to a momentous week in the Australian Senate – and that’s no exaggeration. The Albanese government is hoping to do a deal to rush the Environmental Protection Reform Bill through the Senate…
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November 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Three actions you can take – you choose. knittingnannas.org/2025/11/24/a...
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Read @roycerk2.bsky.social to find out how #cop30 ended
One of Australia’s best journalists, covering an issue that is still not getting enough attention #climate
One of Australia’s best journalists, covering an issue that is still not getting enough attention #climate
The #COP30 text commits to following the science and embracing information integrity while stripping away all mention of fossil fuel phaseout @roycerk2.bsky.social reports.
drilled.media/news/COP30-w...
drilled.media/news/COP30-w...
COP-tastrophe: How the COP of Implementation, Truth, Forests, and Indigenous Peoples Failed on All Counts
COP30 began full of promise but ended as yet another reminder that the mechanism for global climate governance is broken.
drilled.media
November 23, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Read @roycerk2.bsky.social to find out how #cop30 ended
One of Australia’s best journalists, covering an issue that is still not getting enough attention #climate
One of Australia’s best journalists, covering an issue that is still not getting enough attention #climate
While Labor meets with mining companies and housing developers… “Senator David Pocock held a series of roundtables, attended by nearly thirty representatives from NGOs, industry groups, scientific bodies and legal organisations.”
A proposal to the gov’t that would improve Labor's changes to our environment laws so they actually protect nature, with 15 changes including removing native forest logging exemption & removing fossil fuels from national interest test
You can read more below: www.davidpocock.com.au/proposal_to_...
You can read more below: www.davidpocock.com.au/proposal_to_...
PROPOSAL TO PASS ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REFORMS THAT ACTUALLY PROTECT NATURE
TRUST. INTEGRITY. LEADERSHIP.
www.davidpocock.com.au
November 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
While Labor meets with mining companies and housing developers… “Senator David Pocock held a series of roundtables, attended by nearly thirty representatives from NGOs, industry groups, scientific bodies and legal organisations.”
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"The text is not great, but at least we have an outcome," Ralph Regenvanu is climate change minister of Vanuatu - the outcome “leadership by announcing they will co-host the First International Conference on the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels” fossilfueltreaty.org/first-intern...
Colombia and The Netherlands Announce First International Conference for Fossil Fuel Phase Out — The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative
fossilfueltreaty.org
November 23, 2025 at 4:16 AM
"The text is not great, but at least we have an outcome," Ralph Regenvanu is climate change minister of Vanuatu - the outcome “leadership by announcing they will co-host the First International Conference on the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels” fossilfueltreaty.org/first-intern...
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Countries meeting in Brazil for two weeks could manage ONLY a VOLUNTARY agreement to BEGIN discussions on a roadmap to an EVENTUAL phase-out of fossil fuels, and they achieved this INCREMENTAL progress only in the teeth of IMPLACABLE OPPOSITION from OIL-PRODUCING countries.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
Petrostates, such as Saudi Arabia, Russia--and the U.S. under Republican rule--are a threat to us and the planet, and must be treated as such.
#ScienceUnderSiege
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#ScienceUnderSiege
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff
Wealthy countries agree to triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Countries meeting in Brazil for two weeks could manage ONLY a VOLUNTARY agreement to BEGIN discussions on a roadmap to an EVENTUAL phase-out of fossil fuels, and they achieved this INCREMENTAL progress only in the teeth of IMPLACABLE OPPOSITION from OIL-PRODUCING countries.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
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🇨🇴 Colombia showed real leadership.
They refused to be pressured by COP officials who ignored the concerns of vulnerable countries, #IndigenousPeoples, and civil society—while underestimating opposition to meaningful climate action.
They refused to be pressured by COP officials who ignored the concerns of vulnerable countries, #IndigenousPeoples, and civil society—while underestimating opposition to meaningful climate action.
November 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
🇨🇴 Colombia showed real leadership.
They refused to be pressured by COP officials who ignored the concerns of vulnerable countries, #IndigenousPeoples, and civil society—while underestimating opposition to meaningful climate action.
They refused to be pressured by COP officials who ignored the concerns of vulnerable countries, #IndigenousPeoples, and civil society—while underestimating opposition to meaningful climate action.
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🚨 At #COP30’s closing plenary, Colombia refused to approve the decision on the mitigation work programme unless fossil fuel language was included.
Several climate-vulnerable states demanded more ambition & public finance for climate adaptation.
🔔This is a wake-up call🔔
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Several climate-vulnerable states demanded more ambition & public finance for climate adaptation.
🔔This is a wake-up call🔔
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November 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
🚨 At #COP30’s closing plenary, Colombia refused to approve the decision on the mitigation work programme unless fossil fuel language was included.
Several climate-vulnerable states demanded more ambition & public finance for climate adaptation.
🔔This is a wake-up call🔔
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Several climate-vulnerable states demanded more ambition & public finance for climate adaptation.
🔔This is a wake-up call🔔
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Stoked to see that a statue of surfing great Pauline Menczer has been erected at Bondi. Someone I looked up to as a young grom but didn’t ever get the respect they deserved. Watch the doco Girls Can’t Surf to hear their story.
Australia's forgotten surfing champ now immortalised on Bondi Beach
The girl from Bondi battled rheumatoid arthritis, sexism and homophobia on her way to the top of the world. But it would be decades before she saw any money for it.
www.abc.net.au
November 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Stoked to see that a statue of surfing great Pauline Menczer has been erected at Bondi. Someone I looked up to as a young grom but didn’t ever get the respect they deserved. Watch the doco Girls Can’t Surf to hear their story.
I’m sending this out to every library and archives person I know in Sydney with the hope they steal (with credit) the idea. Always such incredible initiatives from Shannon Mattern.
[1/5] We're launching a new thing @ the Metro NY Library Council: The Cross-Reference Coalition is an experimental school tracing exuberantly🤗 interdisciplinary links btw NYC's libraries + archives; connecting its knwldg workers, grad students, artists + designers. We'll also make a rad book...
METROCrossReferenceCoalition_Students
The Cross-Reference Coalition An Experimental School
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November 21, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I’m sending this out to every library and archives person I know in Sydney with the hope they steal (with credit) the idea. Always such incredible initiatives from Shannon Mattern.
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With the realisation that @albomp.bsky.social would rather cuddle up with the Libs than listen to the science on reforming Australia’s environmental laws 🧶👵’s have
HIT ROCK BOTTOM!
#EPBCAct #EPBCActreform #EnvironmentalProtection #Biodiversity
HIT ROCK BOTTOM!
#EPBCAct #EPBCActreform #EnvironmentalProtection #Biodiversity
November 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
With the realisation that @albomp.bsky.social would rather cuddle up with the Libs than listen to the science on reforming Australia’s environmental laws 🧶👵’s have
HIT ROCK BOTTOM!
#EPBCAct #EPBCActreform #EnvironmentalProtection #Biodiversity
HIT ROCK BOTTOM!
#EPBCAct #EPBCActreform #EnvironmentalProtection #Biodiversity
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I hope some intrepid Aussie artist reproduces this somewhere in Oz. We are way more creative than the Lib/Lab duopoly. The #Independents are showing us that every day, as we move towards the inevitable multi-party system. #Auspol
"We are more creative than a two party system"
Seen in Downtown LA
Seen in Downtown LA
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I hope some intrepid Aussie artist reproduces this somewhere in Oz. We are way more creative than the Lib/Lab duopoly. The #Independents are showing us that every day, as we move towards the inevitable multi-party system. #Auspol
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Conservation Council SA's new campaign is Dump Santos. They are calling for the SA govt to end Santos's sponsorship of the Tour Down Under.
The Santos branded race will ride past areas affected by the algal bloom. Makes me mad.
Join and take action to Dump Santos
dump-santos.conservationsa.org.au
The Santos branded race will ride past areas affected by the algal bloom. Makes me mad.
Join and take action to Dump Santos
dump-santos.conservationsa.org.au
Dump Santos from Tour Down Under
Tell Premier Malinauskas to end Santos' sponsorship of SA's iconic cycling race.
dump-santos.conservationsa.org.au
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Conservation Council SA's new campaign is Dump Santos. They are calling for the SA govt to end Santos's sponsorship of the Tour Down Under.
The Santos branded race will ride past areas affected by the algal bloom. Makes me mad.
Join and take action to Dump Santos
dump-santos.conservationsa.org.au
The Santos branded race will ride past areas affected by the algal bloom. Makes me mad.
Join and take action to Dump Santos
dump-santos.conservationsa.org.au
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The same public servants who created the rules for the ‘market’ for aged care, child care, disability care and water in the Murray River are now pretending they will do a good job of making a ‘market’ for biodiversity…what could go wrong
Australia Institute co-CEO Dr Richard Denniss breaks down the problem with offsets at a Senate Inquiry into proposed changes to the Environment Protection Reform Bill.
Sign the petition calling on the government to fix our broken environment laws nb.australiainstitute.org.au/strong_envir...
Sign the petition calling on the government to fix our broken environment laws nb.australiainstitute.org.au/strong_envir...
November 21, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The same public servants who created the rules for the ‘market’ for aged care, child care, disability care and water in the Murray River are now pretending they will do a good job of making a ‘market’ for biodiversity…what could go wrong