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James Piers Taylor
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Chair of Dengie Climate Action Partnership, Founder member of eMpower Maldon. Former Chair of Permaculture Association UK. Opinions my own. Centre for Human Ecology alumnus.
Born@ 323.57ppm, Pop. 3.82bn Fiat d58. Ω ✈ 30/8/06 #DengieBioregion
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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · Nov 24
I’m descended from from Huguenot refugees via the Debuse / Debues / De Bues (etc) family that fled Picardie, northern France in the 1600s and settled in Spitalfields, East London.

I’d love to connect with any cousins here sharing that heritage. Get in touch!
Section of a family tree diagram on Ancestry.com showing members of the Debuse family
yourmindfire.bsky.social
I’m trying to track down the book "Medieval Roads of Essex" (2014) by Helen Walker

I understand that it was only released as an e-book through Amazon’s Kindle store - but it doesn’t currently appear there & appears to be a victim of the digital dark ages (1/2)
January 2, 2026 at 8:34 AM
yourmindfire.bsky.social
Do you want to learn more about the wildlife of the Dengie Peninsula?

Dengie Climate Action Partnership wants to run a series of free, friendly, local talks about Dengie’s wildlife, habitats & ecology — from farmland & hedgerows to saltmarsh & coastline — & how climate change is affecting our area
A poster. Background image is a photograph of seagulls in flight, against an overcast sky. The photograph taken from below and shows the underside of the birds. Overlaid are: the logo of the Dengie Climate Action Partnership with the slogan 'our home, our future' (top left corner), text in red reading 'Discovering Nature on the Dengie' (centre), smaller text in black reading "Do you want to learn more about the wildlife of the Dengie Peninsula" (below the red text)
December 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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The automobile was the Johnny-come-lately joining road users which had enjoyed these paths for hundreds of years. Bridleways, byways & footpaths were additional to these — not substitutes for them, routes to be retired to when the motor-car demanded the road
Poop-Poop
Barely a week goes by now without a collision on the Dengie roads. A couple of months ago this sadly included two fatalities. There’s clearly a problem with drunk and drug driving, but this a…
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December 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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We won’t be able to defend some areas against the sea in the long term. We need to consider where to retreat from the current coastline. For Hamburg we need a plan to move the city 30 or 50 kilometers inland to the northeast by 2200 #ManagedRetreat
Screen grab of text from linked article. Reads: Among your 10 specific demands to policymakers is one that calls for “debating a withdrawal from low-lying coastal regions of the North and Baltic Seas.” Until now, this has been taboo. KR: In the very long run, over many decades to a century or more, sea levels could rise sharply. That is why we must start discussing it now. If we act early, we will have the time for careful adjustments. FB: We won’t be able to defend some areas against the sea in the long term. We also need to consider where to retreat from the current coastline. For Hamburg, for instance, we need a plan to move the city 30 or 50 kilometers inland to the northeast by 2200. To be clear, no one is suggesting mass relocation tomorrow. But we can already ask whether it makes sense to build a new technology park or major production site right by the shore.
December 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM
yourmindfire.bsky.social
T-minus 89 hours until the launch of Witbrictesherna-IV at Southminster Spaceport.

Local residents are requested to secure animals until Mission Control confirms successful interstage separation.

#HereComesEverybody
Aerial photograph of fields outside Southminster, Essex. tow-thirds of teh image is the cloudy sky above the fields. The image has been manipulated using AI to include a photo-realistic render of a terrestrial spaceport with a rocket ready to launch. The words 'SOUTHMINSTER SPACEPORT' are overlaid in the NSA typeface in a black colour. In addition: overlaid on the middle left of the image is a circular mission badge with the words 'Dengie Space Programme' and a graphical representation of a space shuttle launching against a background of stars and the full moon.
December 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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The Power of Permaculture Principles, my new book available to pre order now at Permanent Publications

shop.permaculture.co.uk/products/the...

Written over three years with 40 collaborators. Officially out March 1st 2026

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December 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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'Governments with resources will be forced to engage in long, nightmarish episodes of triage: deciding what and who can be salvaged from engulfment by a disordered environment. The choice will need to be made primarily among the poorest, not just abroad but at home' #ManagedRetreat
Screengrab of text: 'Governments with resources will be forced to engage in long, nightmarish episodes of triage: deciding what and who can be salvaged from engulfment by a disordered environment. The choice will need to be made primarily among the poorest, not just abroad but at home. We have already previewed the images, in the course of the organisational and spiritual unravelling that was Hurricane Katrina.At progressively more extreme levels, the decisions will be increasingly harsh: morally agonising to those who must make and execute them - but in the end, morally deadening' - Leon Furth in Gwynne Dyer's 'Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats' (2010) An aerial photograph of the Brooklands area of Jaywick, Essex under water following the 1953 coastal flood
December 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Fair chance these never happen now and we get the centralisation of LGR without the devolution of powers to the county #ShitShow

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New mayoral elections to be delayed in four areas of England
The new mayoralties in Greater Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk, Hampshire and the Solent, and Sussex and Brighton will now be contested in 2028.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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'Farage tells donors he expects Reform UK will do an election deal with Tories' #VoteGreen

www.ft.com/content/ecf5...
Photograph of Kemi Badenoch looking down. A Tiny Nigel Farage is appearing from her neckline. White background. Text in grey in top right corner reads: 'Vote Green'
December 3, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Recent reads
A photograph of 5 books on a rag showing their front covers: Thirty-two Words for Field by Manchán Magan; The Break-Down issue 1; My Techno- Optimism by Vitalik Buterin; The Trading Game by Gary Stevenson; and Radical Abundance by Kai Hero, Keir Milburn & Bertie Russell
November 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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A photograph of Russian asset Nigel Farage with Red Square behind him and red sun rays. The word Reform in white is overlaid. It looks very liek theBBC fixup of Jeremy Corbyn
November 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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#COP30 is on fire
Grab from video of a fire at the COP30 summit. The cartoon dog from the'Thsi is Fine' meme is sat in the middle gropund
November 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Online and on the streets, some people are stepping on a platform marked ‘concern about irregular migration’ and flying the Union Jack or the Bratach na hÉireann. When the platform slowly moves to ‘against all migration’ and ‘pride in our national flags’ most are happy to go with it (1/2)
November 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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@danravenellison.bsky.social Hi Dan, the stat in this quote would be useful for local campaigning. Could you point me towards the DfT source? Is it in a report I can reference? Thanks
November 18, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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The next Maldon District Green Party social is this Saturday 22nd - meet Greens by the riverside

Saturday 22 Nov 2025 - 2-3pm
Ye Old White Hart
The Quay
Burnham on Crouch
CM0 8AS

Nearest bus stop/service: Burnham Clock Tower (esxjdgwm & esxawtmt) D7 31 331

@rgl25.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk
Sgreengrab of a Facebook post. Identical text from this Bluesky post above a photograph of the quayside exterior of the White Harte Hotel in Burnham-on-Crouch. Above the text there is the logo of the Green Party of England and Wales accompanied by the words 'Maldon District Green party'
November 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Reeves should risk it all on one last roll of the dice.

Raise income tax, break the triple lock, slay the deficit, spend the money on the things she believes in.

It may not work - but better than waiting for doom to overtake her.

open.substack.com/pub/edrith/p...
Reeves in Zugzwang
Incremental politics no longer works
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November 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
yourmindfire.bsky.social
“At some point, some hard decisions have to be made – that certain communities will have to be relocated. Protection becomes so expensive that it’s not worth it, so you have to move communities to safer, higher ground” #ManagedRetreat

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Flooded and forgotten: the UK’s waters are rising and we’re being kept in the dark | John Harris
Rescue operations in Wales, submerged railway lines in Cornwall – these events are ever more common. So why have we utterly failed to prepare, asks Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Single figure polling after this surely
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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The Mad Max backstory
November 14, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Water companies must belong to the public #ReNationalise www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Southern Water apologises for catastrophic spill of plastic biobeads in Sussex
Resulting pollution on Camber Sands beach poses threat to wildlife including dolphins and seals
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Reform UK too frit to field a candidate for #Essex Mayor yet (major parties & independents have already put their cards on the table)

Reform obviously want to limit the time the public have to find out about their candidate & their policies for Essex

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Who wants to be the first elected mayor of Essex?
Meet the candidates hoping to be elected the Mayor of Essex next year
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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I’ve reviewed the 4 competing proposals submitted by existing councils as to how Local Government Reorganisation in #Essex should take shape

It's barefoot textual analysis to see what they have to say about the climate and nature emergencies

dengiebioregion.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/t...
The Lost Words
By national government edict the 15 councils in ‘Greater Essex’ must reorganise to form new unitary authorities through a process of Local Government Reorganisation. This will change the current tw…
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November 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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“There isn’t a magic money tree that we can shake that suddenly provides for everything that people want”
Photorealistic generative AI image of a wine glass shaped tree in a parkland environment. The image is overlaid with text from the 'Champagne glass distribution of wealth' diagram showing that the richest 20% of the world's population hold about 80% of the global wealth, while the poorest 20% are at the thin stem with almost nothing. [That image originated from the 1992 UN Human Development Report highlighting the "champagne glass of world poverty"]
November 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Reform UK are cancelling Christmas www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Beyond ironic’: Reform-led council says flags must come down so Christmas lights can go up
Kent county council says union flags and flags of St George must come off street lights because of safety concerns
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Reform UK's bold new political offer: AUSTERITY 3.0
November 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM