@richsulley.bsky.social
Snr Research Fellow in Sustainability Policy.
The Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures.
https://substack.com/@richsulley
Sustainability, bikes, birds, grumpiness
The Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures.
https://substack.com/@richsulley
Sustainability, bikes, birds, grumpiness
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A sad day for climate action. Heathrow’s third runway getting government backing sends the message that airport expansion matters more than safeguarding our future. We need leadership that prioritises people and planet. #Climate
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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
November 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
A sad day for climate action. Heathrow’s third runway getting government backing sends the message that airport expansion matters more than safeguarding our future. We need leadership that prioritises people and planet. #Climate
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Last call for tickets
We're back for a another selection of the entertaining, esoteric and engaging films, and the bar will be open!
November 27th 6:30pm at Regather, Club Garden Road , Sheffield
Book tickets via this link www.eventbrite.com/e/cycling-ci...
Follow on Instagram www.instagram.com/cyclingcinem...
November 27th 6:30pm at Regather, Club Garden Road , Sheffield
Book tickets via this link www.eventbrite.com/e/cycling-ci...
Follow on Instagram www.instagram.com/cyclingcinem...
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Last call for tickets
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Open letter from over 1,000 UK scientists urging all MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing. A huge list full of highly respected names.
"Without much more urgent and decisive action, we risk seeing these impacts overwhelm our capacity to respond."
Please share with your MP #NEB2025
"Without much more urgent and decisive action, we risk seeing these impacts overwhelm our capacity to respond."
Please share with your MP #NEB2025
National Emergency Briefing
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...
www.nebriefing.org
November 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Open letter from over 1,000 UK scientists urging all MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing. A huge list full of highly respected names.
"Without much more urgent and decisive action, we risk seeing these impacts overwhelm our capacity to respond."
Please share with your MP #NEB2025
"Without much more urgent and decisive action, we risk seeing these impacts overwhelm our capacity to respond."
Please share with your MP #NEB2025
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Compare and contrast the Government language.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Compare and contrast the Government language.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
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Drowning in denial: one in five homes in Reform UK heartlands faces flooding in 25 years
Even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks
By Nafeez Ahmed
Even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks
By Nafeez Ahmed
Drowning in denial: one in five homes in Reform UK heartlands faces flooding in 25 years
Even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Drowning in denial: one in five homes in Reform UK heartlands faces flooding in 25 years
Even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks
By Nafeez Ahmed
Even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks
By Nafeez Ahmed
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"My work with AI is exponentially accelerating the destruction of the 🌎, but once a month, I go camping to reconnect w my own humanity thru nature. I also bike to & from the office, which definitely offsets all the other environmental destruction I work tirelessly to enact from sunup to sundown.."
I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person
I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the office. And even though my j...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM
"My work with AI is exponentially accelerating the destruction of the 🌎, but once a month, I go camping to reconnect w my own humanity thru nature. I also bike to & from the office, which definitely offsets all the other environmental destruction I work tirelessly to enact from sunup to sundown.."
We're back for a another selection of the entertaining, esoteric and engaging films, and the bar will be open!
November 27th 6:30pm at Regather, Club Garden Road , Sheffield
Book tickets via this link www.eventbrite.com/e/cycling-ci...
Follow on Instagram www.instagram.com/cyclingcinem...
November 27th 6:30pm at Regather, Club Garden Road , Sheffield
Book tickets via this link www.eventbrite.com/e/cycling-ci...
Follow on Instagram www.instagram.com/cyclingcinem...
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Colder today, but the sun is out! @sheffielducu.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Colder today, but the sun is out! @sheffielducu.bsky.social
On the picket today (until it starts raining at least) cc @sheffielducu.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
On the picket today (until it starts raining at least) cc @sheffielducu.bsky.social
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Always remember that a parliamentary majority can (purport to) render a country "safe" by an Act. The Conservatives sought to do that with Rwanda, regardless of the facts.
Another chilling aspect... The Tories simply passed a law declaring Rwanda "safe".
Do we really trust that this govt or the next won't resort to similar tactics if this finds them politically convenient?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Do we really trust that this govt or the next won't resort to similar tactics if this finds them politically convenient?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Always remember that a parliamentary majority can (purport to) render a country "safe" by an Act. The Conservatives sought to do that with Rwanda, regardless of the facts.
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“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Unexpected chippy tea.
A phrase to bring joy to the soul like a cold pillow on a hot, hungover morning. Each one of its nineteen glorious letters like a featherlight kiss on the forehead from an angel.
A phrase to bring joy to the soul like a cold pillow on a hot, hungover morning. Each one of its nineteen glorious letters like a featherlight kiss on the forehead from an angel.
November 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Unexpected chippy tea.
A phrase to bring joy to the soul like a cold pillow on a hot, hungover morning. Each one of its nineteen glorious letters like a featherlight kiss on the forehead from an angel.
A phrase to bring joy to the soul like a cold pillow on a hot, hungover morning. Each one of its nineteen glorious letters like a featherlight kiss on the forehead from an angel.
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![Advertising poster promoting cycling for transport featuring four people in a row on bikes. At the top the text says, "You'd be better on a bicycle", and then in a bubble it says "Still [emphasized with big, red, italicized letters] the cheapest, handiest, healthiest way of getting about."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7vpdxcialxa6j5s7yh5g5jhf/bafkreihcp247ahol26isqxpjmh54kczqp6ieyycvhakzjug6ysgeqndpb4@jpeg)
We're back for a another selection of the entertaining, esoteric and engaging films, and the bar will be open!
November 27th 6:30pm at Regather, Club Garden Road , Sheffield
Book tickets via this link www.eventbrite.com/e/cycling-ci...
Follow on Instagram www.instagram.com/cyclingcinem...
November 27th 6:30pm at Regather, Club Garden Road , Sheffield
Book tickets via this link www.eventbrite.com/e/cycling-ci...
Follow on Instagram www.instagram.com/cyclingcinem...
November 15, 2025 at 8:10 AM
We're back for a another selection of the entertaining, esoteric and engaging films, and the bar will be open!
November 27th 6:30pm at Regather, Club Garden Road , Sheffield
Book tickets via this link www.eventbrite.com/e/cycling-ci...
Follow on Instagram www.instagram.com/cyclingcinem...
November 27th 6:30pm at Regather, Club Garden Road , Sheffield
Book tickets via this link www.eventbrite.com/e/cycling-ci...
Follow on Instagram www.instagram.com/cyclingcinem...
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"These cuts have probably already taken about 3,000 jobs out of the local economy"
We report from the frontline as @ucuhallam.bsky.social members begin a fresh wave of strike action against @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social 🪧
✍️ @rose-mason.bsky.social
#Sheffield @ucu.org.uk @drjogrady.bsky.social
We report from the frontline as @ucuhallam.bsky.social members begin a fresh wave of strike action against @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social 🪧
✍️ @rose-mason.bsky.social
#Sheffield @ucu.org.uk @drjogrady.bsky.social
Sheffield Hallam staff are going on strike – but will the university listen?
This week marks the first of strike action at Sheffield Hallam. Now Then headed down to the picket line to find out why staff are choosing to swap their lanyards for placards over the next few weeks.
nowthenmagazine.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
"These cuts have probably already taken about 3,000 jobs out of the local economy"
We report from the frontline as @ucuhallam.bsky.social members begin a fresh wave of strike action against @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social 🪧
✍️ @rose-mason.bsky.social
#Sheffield @ucu.org.uk @drjogrady.bsky.social
We report from the frontline as @ucuhallam.bsky.social members begin a fresh wave of strike action against @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social 🪧
✍️ @rose-mason.bsky.social
#Sheffield @ucu.org.uk @drjogrady.bsky.social
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I’ve just announced I’ll be leading a National Emergency Briefing on 27 November . At a time when climate is in free fall on the political agenda , it’s vital our leaders realise what is at stake if we do not accelerate a just , green transition for all .
@nebriefing.bsky.social 🇬🇧
@nebriefing.bsky.social 🇬🇧
November 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I’ve just announced I’ll be leading a National Emergency Briefing on 27 November . At a time when climate is in free fall on the political agenda , it’s vital our leaders realise what is at stake if we do not accelerate a just , green transition for all .
@nebriefing.bsky.social 🇬🇧
@nebriefing.bsky.social 🇬🇧
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frustrating to see climate communicators pivot to talking about tech solutions immediately after calling out people in power for letting climate deniers get away with it.
people know the solutions are there. they don't need that kind of reassurance.
they need moral courage and pride in the fight.
people know the solutions are there. they don't need that kind of reassurance.
they need moral courage and pride in the fight.
November 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
frustrating to see climate communicators pivot to talking about tech solutions immediately after calling out people in power for letting climate deniers get away with it.
people know the solutions are there. they don't need that kind of reassurance.
they need moral courage and pride in the fight.
people know the solutions are there. they don't need that kind of reassurance.
they need moral courage and pride in the fight.
Slightly too long and slightly too self indulgent perhaps, but what do you do when someone says something about you that isn't true?
www.linkedin.com/pulse/doing-...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/doing-...
Doing Politics Honestly
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I don't think the investment in Doncaster Sheffield Airport is the right thing to do, I’ve been open about my reasoning behind that. There are many Linkedin posts ...
www.linkedin.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Slightly too long and slightly too self indulgent perhaps, but what do you do when someone says something about you that isn't true?
www.linkedin.com/pulse/doing-...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/doing-...
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Access the slides from Our Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference: A vital resource for anyone working on climate transitions, #ClimatePolicy and equity.
Find them here: tyndall.ac.uk/conference-s...
#AcademicSky #CriticalDecade #ClimateAction #ClimateResearch
Find them here: tyndall.ac.uk/conference-s...
#AcademicSky #CriticalDecade #ClimateAction #ClimateResearch
Conference Slides: Our Critical Decade for Climate Action
Access all the conference slides from the plenaries, sessions, keynotes and masterclasses at our Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference in September
tyndall.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Access the slides from Our Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference: A vital resource for anyone working on climate transitions, #ClimatePolicy and equity.
Find them here: tyndall.ac.uk/conference-s...
#AcademicSky #CriticalDecade #ClimateAction #ClimateResearch
Find them here: tyndall.ac.uk/conference-s...
#AcademicSky #CriticalDecade #ClimateAction #ClimateResearch
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I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
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𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀! Want to join @chrisgpackham.bsky.social in supporting the National Emergency Briefing on Climate & Nature?
🖋️ 𝙋𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙣 𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 urging MPs to attend: lnkd.in/ecGDM3Ry
🖋️ 𝙋𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙣 𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 urging MPs to attend: lnkd.in/ecGDM3Ry
We're delighted that tireless advocate for the natural world, @chrisgpackham.bsky.social CBE, will be opening the National Emergency Briefing in Westminster Central Hall on 27th November.
Chris speaking with @bbclaurak.bsky.social earlier👇
Please make sure your MP is attending: nebriefing.org
#NEB
Chris speaking with @bbclaurak.bsky.social earlier👇
Please make sure your MP is attending: nebriefing.org
#NEB
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀! Want to join @chrisgpackham.bsky.social in supporting the National Emergency Briefing on Climate & Nature?
🖋️ 𝙋𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙣 𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 urging MPs to attend: lnkd.in/ecGDM3Ry
🖋️ 𝙋𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙣 𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 urging MPs to attend: lnkd.in/ecGDM3Ry
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All eyes on #Belém 👀 #COP30Brazil starts today!
World leaders, scientists, activists, & policymakers are in Brazil to try and negotiate further efforts to tackle the #ClimateCrisis and we are sending 3 delegates from @sheffielduni.bsky.social to join them!
Find out more ⬇️
tinyurl.com/yna4pxc8
World leaders, scientists, activists, & policymakers are in Brazil to try and negotiate further efforts to tackle the #ClimateCrisis and we are sending 3 delegates from @sheffielduni.bsky.social to join them!
Find out more ⬇️
tinyurl.com/yna4pxc8
The University of Sheffield delegates heading to COP30 in Brazil
We are very excited to be sending delegates to COP30 in Belém, Brazil. The University of Sheffield is one of only a small number of UK universities invited to send official observers to take part in t...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
All eyes on #Belém 👀 #COP30Brazil starts today!
World leaders, scientists, activists, & policymakers are in Brazil to try and negotiate further efforts to tackle the #ClimateCrisis and we are sending 3 delegates from @sheffielduni.bsky.social to join them!
Find out more ⬇️
tinyurl.com/yna4pxc8
World leaders, scientists, activists, & policymakers are in Brazil to try and negotiate further efforts to tackle the #ClimateCrisis and we are sending 3 delegates from @sheffielduni.bsky.social to join them!
Find out more ⬇️
tinyurl.com/yna4pxc8
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
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“If the constellations had been named in the twentieth century, I suppose we would see bicycles.”
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
"Why should our experience at 10 kilometers an hour constrain the laws of nature at 300,000 kilometers a second?"
-Carl Sagan, astronomer, planetary scientist, and science communicator
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Carl Sagan!
November 9 (1934-1996)
-Carl Sagan, astronomer, planetary scientist, and science communicator
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Carl Sagan!
November 9 (1934-1996)
November 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“If the constellations had been named in the twentieth century, I suppose we would see bicycles.”
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
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www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/sometimes-it... I wrote last week about two villains and one hero in the battle between truth and lies. Well here’s another hero - the Sheffield Tribune, one of the Mill stable of independent news sites, had the courage to publish an important story despite legal threats..
Sometimes it’s worth the risk
“We will definitely bring proceedings for Defamation and Malicious Falsehood if you publish such complete and malicious lies.”
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/sometimes-it... I wrote last week about two villains and one hero in the battle between truth and lies. Well here’s another hero - the Sheffield Tribune, one of the Mill stable of independent news sites, had the courage to publish an important story despite legal threats..