Art Gelling
@artgelling.bsky.social
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Landscape Architect, Environmentalist, Musician.
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greenparty.org.uk
As the world moves forwards and embraces renewable energy,

At Conference, the Tories plot to drag us back — abolishing the Climate Change Act and ‘maximising extraction’ of North Sea oil and gas.
Graphic featuring a close-up wind turbine over farmland under a cloudy sky. Headline reads: “THE WORLD MOVES FORWARD WITH RENEWABLES AS TORIES LOOK BACK.” Below is a quote from Green MP Carla Denyer: “The news that renewable energy overtook coal as the world’s leading source of electricity shows our world is moving in a cleaner, greener, healthier direction, but the Tories are plotting how they can block both people and the planet from benefitting from this transition.” Bottom shows Carla Denyer’s headsh
artgelling.bsky.social
In my personal experience, Candy's values include failing to pay consultants for their design work.

Tice's include attempting to circumvent planning law, and planning conditions requiring affordable homes, preventing "poor doors" and providing play space for children.

Tice's own team hated it.
artgelling.bsky.social
Does it actually need to be said that volunteering, by definition, cannot be compulsory?
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reformexposed.bsky.social
Nigel Farage & Alex Phillips have been awfully quiet about Nathan Gill pleading guilty to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in European parliament and articles.

Just wanted to refresh their memories about how they were all a team through that period.
artgelling.bsky.social
Remember the march for Palestine (I was there!) with around 100,000 others, closing off large parts of central London? Wasn't even mentioned on local London News.

@lisanandymp.bsky.social is the rabbit in the headlights, unable to move to rid the BBC of Gibb, Davie and the rest of the Tuftonites.
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dorianlynskey.bsky.social
It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity
artgelling.bsky.social
@lisanandymp.bsky.social
How long is this Farage sycophancy from the BBC board going to poison OUR #BBCnews?

Gibb, Davie and the rest of the cabal have to go.

I despair. I have no idea what Labour are for any more 😡

Right now, it's @greenparty.org.uk or goodbye tolerant, civil democratic society
bestforbritain.org
For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.

This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
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carlafrancome.bsky.social
I’m not sure guys, I think maybe Oxford Street was better when it was full of motor traffic, I think people liked it better that way

😂
Totally busy streets Such busy streets with people!
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nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social
Defying everything you were ever taught about genetics and biology.

How little we understand about the #biodiversity we are fast trashing. And reminding us that we shouldn't muck around with genetic systems we don't understand

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
These Ant Queens Seem to Defy Biology: They Lay Eggs That Hatch Into Another Species
Iberian harvester ant queens produce offspring of their own species and of the builder harvester ant, seemingly by cloning males
www.smithsonianmag.com
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hamptonheath.bsky.social
Great to meet @davegoulson.bsky.social and hear him speak at a really well attended event at the wonderful Hanworth Air Parks Biodiversity Project yesterday.

The work of HABP and @cambeauty.bsky.social is clearly hugely valued in the community, and I look forward to reading Silent Earth.
Prof. Dave Goulson's book, Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse. Wool Carder Bee feeds from Birds Foot Trefoil at Hampton Heath.
artgelling.bsky.social
Lawson and a plethora of Tufton Street alumni.
It sadly took years before the scientific community bit back with a very public refusal to appear on Today because science was being pitched as a debate against lobbyists.
They knew they were being played, but felt they needed to explain the science.
artgelling.bsky.social
Radio 4's news + current affairs has been unlistenable for many years. I gave up shouting at the Radio over the relentless platforming of climate change deniers and "both-sidesing" clear-cut science way back.
John Humphreys was truly appalling, but others have taken a similar line before and since.
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kevinjkircher.com
"In Denmark, well-established heat planning mandates that gas and district heating networks do not overlap. The country has a decommissioning fund to cover the costs of removing gas supplies from homes and offers a scheme for free disconnections for private residences."

medium.com/@jan.rosenow...
Managed decline: Regulating gas grids when gas ends
The transition to a climate-neutral future is happening, and with it, the era of fossil gas consumption is coming to an end. This is a…
medium.com
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roadcc.bsky.social
Latest on the live blog: Transport for London has launched a new poster campaign to raise awareness of Highway Code rules on its road network. Some of the comments about it on social media are as informed as ever... road.cc/315919
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@lisanandymp.bsky.social
How much longer is Labour going to be under the thumb of a news agenda driven by the rightward drift of the BBC.
Get the political appointees OUT!
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
This is thinly disguised homophobia by Farage.

The same far-right figures who have spent years coming for my trans friends & colleagues are emboldened again against anything different from their "normal."

Today and everyday I stand with the whole LGBTQIA+ community.

Your struggle is my struggle.
adamjschwarz.bsky.social
Nigel Farage:

"Children who have two stable parents have a better chance in life... The most stable relationships, the ones that last the longest, tend to be between men & women... There's an awful lot of kids in the country not getting the kind of start... they deserve."

Farage has two ex-wives.
artgelling.bsky.social
Good luck with that. It would be overwhelmingly popular and worthwhile (with safeguards for farming and nature).

Sadly, I fear this govt will ignore it, bin it, or "consult it" to death in deference to the landowning huntin' shootin' fraternity...
@greenparty.org.uk ??
@zackpolanski.bsky.social ??
artgelling.bsky.social
If anyone is interested in a small waxcap grassland site in Hampton, SW London (CHEGD species count so far 16, so potentially of regional importance), please get in touch with @hamptonheath.bsky.social who would love some proper mycological advice and verification of identifications this autumn.
artgelling.bsky.social
Embarrassing... squirming over the ruling of genocide, and forgetting "sixth form politics" is a slur against the cohort of young first-time voters his own party has only just introduced to elections.
Sadiq Khan has done some good things... but this is not his greatest hour.