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Barry Cusack
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Desperate to leave the world in a better state than I found it... #ThereIsNoPlanetB #SocialJustice #Equality #Peace
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Barry Cusack @barrycusack.bsky.social · Apr 22
This is #Bradford city centre post pedestrianisation... and it's beautiful 🥰

#BeMoreBradford

#PlacesForPeople & #Nature 🐝 🦋 🐦
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · Sep 10
Andy Burnham tears into Reform UK for suggesting that they would scrap Northern Powerhouse Rail, focusing on a London-centric approach
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Barry Cusack @barrycusack.bsky.social · 12d
Want to reduce the negative impact of how you #travel... 🤔?

Find out more here ⤵️

ourworldindata.org/travel-carbo...

Spoiler 🤫... Walking, Wheeling and Cycling are the 'winners' 🏅 but even #CarSharing helps 👍🏻

🚶🏾‍♀️👨‍🦽 🚲 🚆🚊 🚌 ✅️

Source: @ourworldindata.org

#ClimateChange
Chart showing transport mode emissions per km. Eurostar is the winner, with Domestic Flights being the biggest loser/villain. Walking, Wheeling and Cycling are dealt with elsewhere on the web page, and are the lowest emissions ways of getting around.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17d
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”

Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life.

Common sense.

Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Barry Cusack @barrycusack.bsky.social · 18d
#CarCulture, Bradford, UK
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18d
Recognition of Palestine from Canada, Australia comes in coordination with UK, ahead of UN General Assembly meeting.
Canada, Australia join UK in recognising Palestinian statehood
Recognition of Palestine from Canada, Australia comes in coordination with UK, ahead of UN General Assembly meeting.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18d
UK recognises Palestine as an independent state
UK recognises Palestine as an independent state
Deeply symbolic move comes seven decades after end of UK mandate in Palestine and formation of state of Israel The UK has formally recognised Palestine as an independent state, Keir Starmer has announced. The deeply symbolic move comes seven decades after the end of the UK mandate in Palestine and the formation of the state of Israel. It comes in concert with Canada and Australia, who also made their own formal declarations on Sunday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
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Barry Cusack @barrycusack.bsky.social · 18d
#CarFreeDay What streets should look like 👇🏻
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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 18d
This is Oxford Street
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18d
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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 21d
🚨 BREAKING: Europe’s summer of extreme heat, drought and floods caused €43 billion in damages.

Scientists warn costs could hit €126bn by 2029.

The crisis is real, but we still have time to act together for a safer, more resilient future.
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The Green Runners @thegreenrunners.bsky.social · 21d
1/2 Stuck in traffic or out in the fresh air?

This World Car Free Day (22 Sept) we’re choosing the 2nd option.

Run, ride, walk or bus it. Every km not driven helps.

You don’t need to go car free all day. Try the last km on foot, cycle to the shops or swap the jam for a tram. Small swaps matter.
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Feljin Jose @feljin.ie · 19d
25 Dublin streets will turn into play streets tomorrow afternoon to mark the 25th annual World Car-Free Day.

Unlike other European cities, Dublin rarely does anything big for Car-Free Day but tomorrow will be the biggest ever Car-Free Day Dublin has ever done.
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Barry Cusack @barrycusack.bsky.social · 20d
Don't you just love #McDonald's Drive Thrus...?

#Litter #SingleUsePackaging #Obesity #AirPollution #Congestion #NoisePollution #DriveThrus
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · Sep 9
SIGN OUR LETTER: amn.st/6180fIeA8

Hundreds arrested in Parliament Square on Saturday for peaceful protest against ban of Palestine Action. When UK Govt is arresting people under terrorism laws for sitting peacefully in protest, something is going very wrong.

Peaceful protest is a fundamental right
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · Sep 9
The UK gov should be past assessing a ‘risk’ of genocide in Gaza. Israel is committing genocide - top legal experts agree. In 2024, the ICJ ordered “immediate & effective measures” to protect Palestinians. This ‘finding’ & refusal to end arms exports to Israel breach the duty to prevent genocide.
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 28d
Don’t whitewash genocide.

Collective punishment is a war crime and a key tactic in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

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Photo of Keir Starmer and Israeli President Isaac Herzog shaking hands outside Number 10 Downing Street on 10th September with a quote from Herzog from 12th October 2023 which says: “The entire [Palestinian] nation out there … is responsible. It is not true this rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved.”
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Ciarán Cuffe @ciarancuffe.bsky.social · 27d
A jaw-dropping move from a corrupt US Administration
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/c...
E.P.A. To Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters
www.nytimes.com
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Barry Cusack @barrycusack.bsky.social · 27d
Great to hear that we won't be having a #McDonald's Drive Thru in Bingley 🥳

Tired of seeing the consequences of these places littering our towns & countryside - and that's just one of many reasons why we must reduce the number of drive thrus everywhere.

#Pollution #Health #Noise #Congestion #ASB
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · Sep 2
Draw the line. Join the Green Party today ⤵️

join.greenparty.org.uk?utm_source=s...
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · Sep 2
Congratulations to the newly elected Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales, @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Leadership elections results New Leader Zack Polanski Photo of Zack Polanski REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · Sep 2
Bold Politics starts on the number 38 bus!

Thank you everyone. What a day!

(Few more interviews to do!)

Join.greenparty.org.uk
Crew on a bus all smiling!
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · Sep 2
Yikes! Less than 48 hours to go to the launch this Thursday evening of THE LIE OF THE LAND, my book on Ireland and the #climate emergency.

Via @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
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Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · Aug 27
How your car’s paint job worsens the urban heat island effect

Study finds that black cars increased heat by almost 4°C on hot summer days

www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...
Why the colour of your car might be heating up your city
The study found that black cars increased heat by almost 4°C on hot summer days.
www.euronews.com
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Barry Cusack @barrycusack.bsky.social · Aug 26
So sad to see human-induced #ClimateChange impacting so obviously and potentially devastating on our trees and all of the life that depends on them...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/science...

#ActOnClimate #DivestFromFossilFuels!
UK drought: Why do the trees think it's autumn already?
Experts say the unusual weather has triggered a 'false autumn' as trees struggle to cope with drought.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · Aug 24
EU wildfires worst on record as burning season continues.
Data shows more than 1m hectares torched so far this year, with records also broken for CO2 and other air pollutants.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
EU wildfires worst on record as burning season continues
Data shows more than 1m hectares torched so far this year, with records also broken for CO2 and other air pollutants
www.theguardian.com
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Barry Cusack @barrycusack.bsky.social · Aug 21
Junk food, car obsession, air and noise pollution, litering, obesity, anti social behaviour....

What's not to like about #DriveThrus!?
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