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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 · Nov 21
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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Evelyne de Leeuw @evdle.bsky.social · 16h
A few years ago we wrote about infrastructures for wellbeing (doi.org/10.1093/ooih...) and found that we were way ahead of our time - @academic.oup.com regrettably pulled our new journal.

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 23h
The 'public health' professionals, practitioners and associated fraternity have been captured in the web of short term targets.
Whilst the core parameters of a planet habitable for humanity ebb away.

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 23h
The 'public health' professionals, practitioners and associated fraternity have been captured in the web of short term targets.
Whilst the core parameters of a planet habitable for humanity ebb away.

Reposted by Marcus Grant

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garethcarson.bsky.social @garethcarson.bsky.social · 1d
Why is nobody telling us how we are to adapt to biosphere breakdown, acidification of oceans and the deoxygenation of water? Why are these 3 consequences of rapid increase of CO2 ignored when the result, historically, has been mass extinctions. Genuine question?
www.geolsoc.org.uk/~/media/shar...
www.geolsoc.org.uk

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 1d
Do what ?!
#climate
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Daunting but doable’: Europe urged to prepare for 3C of global heating
Advisory board member says adapting is ‘not rocket science’ but Europe already paying price for lack of preparation
www.theguardian.com

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Way T🌎☄️ H☀️t @notexxonsbitch.bsky.social · 1d
Am I reading this headline correctly?
3C is "daunting but doable?"

Anyone?
🔥🌎💥☄️
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Daunting but doable’: Europe urged to prepare for 3C of global heating
Advisory board member says adapting is ‘not rocket science’ but Europe already paying price for lack of preparation
www.theguardian.com

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 1d
When we need activism to protect human health what does that say about society's priorities?
jamesgdyke.info James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 1d
🗞️A jury has unanimously found all defendants NOT GUILTY in the JP Morgan medics trial! In 2022 6 medics broke 8 windows of the bank's London HQ in protest of fossil fuel funding. Jury unable to come to a decision in 2024 trial. Now a new jury found not guilty 😍🙏
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti....
Jury fails to reach verdict over medics accused of JP Morgan climate protest
Doctors and nurses who damaged windows pleaded not guilty because of bank’s ‘leading role’ in funding fossil fuels
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by James M. Bullock, Marcus Grant, Dana R. Fisher

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Health for XR @healthxr.bsky.social · 1d
🚨BREAKING NEWS!

Medics that broke windows at JP Morgan HQ to expose fossil fuel financing links to climate devastation found NOT GUILTY today by jurors.

The climate crisis is a health crisis and health professionals have a duty to act when lives are at risk.

Read more here:
healthforxr.com

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 1d
🗞️A jury has unanimously found all defendants NOT GUILTY in the JP Morgan medics trial! In 2022 6 medics broke 8 windows of the bank's London HQ in protest of fossil fuel funding. Jury unable to come to a decision in 2024 trial. Now a new jury found not guilty 😍🙏
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti....
Jury fails to reach verdict over medics accused of JP Morgan climate protest
Doctors and nurses who damaged windows pleaded not guilty because of bank’s ‘leading role’ in funding fossil fuels
www.theguardian.com

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 2d
Yeah!!

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Croakey Health Media @croakeynews.bsky.social · 2d
From the Cradle Coast, a call for rail to be recognised as public health infrastructure for regional communities www.croakey.org/from-the-cra...
From the Cradle Coast, a call for rail to be recognised as public health infrastructure for regional communities
www.croakey.org

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 2d
I wish people understood how much unseen labor goes into every visible ounce of activism

and how much labor by so many people towards change is deliberately invisible and never meant to be known

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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 4d
The climate crisis is a choice. A powerful cabal, or corporate interests, oligarchs, and the very rich, have secretly decided, that the public will just have to put up with the impacts of climate change and are attempting to gaslight the public, using the corporate and oligarch controlled media.
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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 4d
Damage to the public realm.
Profits to the private realm.
Accelerating till crisis.
Homo sapiens is dead.
Long live Homo kamikaze.

Reposted by Marcus Grant, Margot C. Finn

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 4d
So-called AI - not up in "the cloud", but very much down to earth and causing massive damage to #PublicHealth and environmental damage

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A different set of rules’: thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations
Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship datacenters
www.theguardian.com

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Extinction Rebellion Global @xrglobal.bsky.social · 4d
No matter what our individual journeys towards the future look like, we must start now, and our pace must be steady and unyielding.
Read #XRGlobal Newsletter #103 ➡️ bit.ly/xrnews103

There is plenty of room for you to walk beside us.
No matter what our individual journeys towards the future look like, we must start now, and our pace must be steady and unyielding. Read #XRGlobal Newsletter #103 ➡️ http://bit.ly/xrnews103 There is plenty of room for you to walk beside us.

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Roger Hallam @rogerhallam.com · 4d
The real division for our future is between violence and non‑violence—not between left and right.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 4d
Delighted to see the TrumpActionTracker feature in this @timeshighered.bsky.social profile by @patrickjack.bsky.social today :-)

was great to chat to him about it!

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/mathema...
The mathematician lifting the lid on Trump’s ‘attacks’
Scientist behind Trump Action Tracker uses skills in data collection to look for patterns in president’s seemingly scattergun approach
www.timeshighereducation.com

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 5d
The American Geophysical Union says. "The Trump Administration’s decision to repeal this landmark scientific & legal determination — despite the overwhelming evidence — is a rejection of established science, a denial of the struggles we are facing today; a direct threat to our collective future."
glendunlap.bsky.social Glen Dunlap @glendunlap.bsky.social · 5d
There are so many fucked up things with the current administration that it's hard to focus on one but this recent move is basically a death sentence for the planet. I've been involved with more boots on the ground actions over the years than I can count and this really bums me out.
EPA reverses long-standing climate change finding, stripping its own ability to regulate emissions
The agency announced it is repealing its 2009 conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the Earth and endanger human health and well-being.
www.nbcnews.com

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 5d
Anti-Zionism does not necessarily equate to antisemitism.
However a proposed policy for Green Party conference to vote on blurs those lines.
The Jewish members group have set out their reasons to be concerned.
I am concerned.

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Glen Dunlap @glendunlap.bsky.social · 5d
There are so many fucked up things with the current administration that it's hard to focus on one but this recent move is basically a death sentence for the planet. I've been involved with more boots on the ground actions over the years than I can count and this really bums me out.
EPA reverses long-standing climate change finding, stripping its own ability to regulate emissions
The agency announced it is repealing its 2009 conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the Earth and endanger human health and well-being.
www.nbcnews.com

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Evelyne de Leeuw @evdle.bsky.social · 5d
Confirmation that science is only an opinion and that the Trump regime more than ever intends to destroy a planet habitable by humans:

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health
The White House calls it the largest deregulation in US history, but environmentalists say it will prove costly for Americans.
www.bbc.com

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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 5d
London, hear Standing Together’s National Co-Director Alon-Lee Green speak next Wednesday, February 18!

Learn where we go from here and why a grassroots Jewish-Palestinian struggle is the only path toward real justice and peace on this land. Register bit.ly/alonleelondon

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 5d
This is what sane infrastructure looks like.

Colorado just built the world’s largest wildlife crossing — cutting animal deaths by up to 90% and saving human lives too.

In a collapsing biosphere, reconnecting habitats isn’t “nice”. It’s survival. Build more. Everywhere.

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 5d
So true!
Every trip I see this and slow down, even though I am on a main road, just in case.
The risk of hitting a car bonnet is such a huge factor.
tinydbass.bsky.social Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 6d
Drivers: If you're waiting for a cyclist to pass so you can come out of a side road, edging forward is a great way to slow the cyclist down since it signals to them that you're not in full control of your car and that they need to be extra careful.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 6d
Drivers: If you're waiting for a cyclist to pass so you can come out of a side road, edging forward is a great way to slow the cyclist down since it signals to them that you're not in full control of your car and that they need to be extra careful.

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International Society for Urban Health (ISUH) @is4urbanhealth.bsky.social · 7d
We’re excited to highlight @citiesxhealth.bsky.social's latest climate-focused Special Issue, developed in close collaboration with our team!

The issue explores how #planning #design & #governance can protect #health amid #climate change while advancing #equity: tandfonline.com/toc/rcah20/9/5
Cities & Health
Special Issue: Urban environments at the frontline of climate breakdown and health: Planning, design, and management. Volume 9, Issue 5 of Cities & Health
tandfonline.com

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Marcus Grant @marcusxgrant.bsky.social · 10d
This is the important next step for healthy cities.

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saidibe.bsky.social @saidibe.bsky.social · 10d
Perhaps because to decision makers public health= healthcare.
Seemingly concrete financial savings fit the accounting way of thinking better than nebulous benefits to health and wellbeing. Sounds more technocratic and gives sense of control. Intangibles harder to sell - a perpetual challenge.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11d
Yes!
'London should retime traffic lights for cyclist safety ' - Lime bikes boss
'London should follow Copengahen and Amsterdam by retiming traffic lights to reward safe cyclists'
www.mylondon.news