Calderdale GND
@calderdalegnd.bsky.social
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LAG registered with FOE - focused on green issues specific to Calderdale; engaging in local concerns as an objective, critical friend to our political representatives. Members work with the local council's CAP, facilitate assemblies, hustings and demos.
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Come and join our 'Love our Rivers' action in Sowerby Bridge, Calderdale next Saturday, 14 June 2025. The River Calder and its tributaries are highly polluted, not least by illegal sewage overflow.
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Thanks to @wildcard.land for hosting our #Ghostwoods walk through #HardcastleCrags last Sunday; raising awareness about our #AncientWoodlands and how they might be restored in line with the gradual harvesting of non-native pinewood plantations, to restore the balance of indigenous flora and fauna
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Thanks to all our Calderdale #GreenNewDeal activists for showing up in #SowerbyBridge today, collecting signatures demanding Calderdale Council uses its powers to enforce the ecological quality of the #RiverCalder and its tributaries @vimtosocialist.bsky.social @calderdale.bsky.social
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We're setting-up our LoveOurRivers Event in #SowerbyBridge #Calderdale come and join our action and 'net a nasty' game, promoting greater local government interest in the #EcologicalHealth of the River Calder. #LoveOurRivers
#RiverAction
calderdalegnd.bsky.social
Come and join our 'Love our Rivers' action in Sowerby Bridge, Calderdale next Saturday, 14 June 2025. The River Calder and its tributaries are highly polluted, not least by illegal sewage overflow.
calderdalegnd.bsky.social
Just to remind you, the Scientists for Survival book launch is happening at The Corner bookshop in the Halifax Piece Hall this coming Thursday (24 April) from 7 pm...
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🚨The Green Deal is under attack! Polluters’ lobbyists and right-wing forces want to gut Europe’s most ambitious climate plan. We need a stronger Green Deal—one that protects our planet and promotes a sustainable economy! Sign NOW to defend our future! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-02...
Defend the Green Deal from the polluters' lobby!
The Green Deal is under attack! 🚨 Polluters’ lobbyists and right-wing forces want to gut Europe’s most ambitious climate plan. We need a stronger Green Deal—one that protects our planet and promotes a...
action.wemove.eu
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Calderdale GND activists delivering 250 locally-signed cards to @katedeardenmp.bsky.social's office at the Elsie White Centre - expressing the interests of 50 Halifax and 200 Calder Valley constituents (@joshfg.bsky.social), demanding a bolder, fairer #ClimatePlan now.
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scientistsforxr.earth
‘I firmly believe that bad things occur when good people remain silent. I hope this collection of essays will serve as a catalyst for widespread, vocal and informed action from scientists of all disciplines and backgrounds’
Kevin Anderson
#ScientistsOnSurvival

Buy your copy now 🔗 xrb.link/q0XP4C
@kevinclimate.bsky.social
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Book launch and discussion - Scientists on Survival, Stories of Journeys from Despair to Activism - at The Piece Hall, Halifax, 7 pm, 24 April 2025
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scientists...
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CGND with XR Calderdale on 'the wavy steps' in Hebden Bridge today, demanding the Government impliment the 2008 Climate Change Act with a new Climate Budget this coming May.
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The money to fund a better future exists but it is being hoarded by the super-rich.

The government needs to tax extreme wealth and use it to fund renewable energy and better public services for all.

Agree? Sign the petition now: act.350.org/sign/tax-the... #TaxTheirBillions
Tax their billions to fund renewable energy for all!
The green economy in the UK is booming. Yet, the government is approving new runways and oil giants like BP are going all-in on new oil and gas. Billionaires are richer than ever. We should be taxing ...
act.350.org
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axedrax.bsky.social
BREAKING: UK's single biggest carbon emitter makes record breaking profits 🤑

Once again, Drax has made BILLIONS in earnings at the expense of our bills, forests, the health of communities and our planet. 

➡️ Join our call tomorrow: actionnetwork.org/events/axe-d...

#OurBillsOurFuture #AxeDrax
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BREAKING: We’ve WON a historic case against the Rosebank & Jackdaw oil & gas fields. 🎉

👏 NO NEW OIL AND GAS! 📣

This is GAME-CHANGING.

And it’s ONLY been possible thanks to YEARS of fighting by THOUSANDS of climate campaigners! Power to the people. ✊
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GND with local Green activists in Hebden Bridge this Saturday demanding local MPs @joshfg.bsky.social and @katedeardenmp.bsky.social support the Climate and Nature Bill.
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Calderdale GND out collecting over 250 Xmas card signatures with XR Calderdale friends to send to our Mps Josh Fenton-Glynn @joshfg.bsky.social and Kate Dearden this afternoon @calderdale.bsky.social seeking their support for the Climate and Nature Bill.
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Adani Green is the supposedly sustainable arm of the Adani Group, but the reality is that finance is being redirected to Adani entities involved in coal mining. Tell Lombard Odier to divest: actions.eko.org/a/lombard-od...
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CGND delivering an FOE report to the offices of Halifax MP Kate Dearden at the Elsie Whitely Centre in Halifax and to Calder Valley MP Josh Fenton-Glyn MP highlighting what government needs highlighting what government needs to do to meet their international commitments to stay within 1.5 degrees.
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⚡️ CAN BILL Constituency Week of Action! ⚡️

💚 A big thank you to everyone who took part across the UK last week! It’s inspiring to see so many campaigners urging their MPs to back the Climate and Nature Bill.

🐝 Is your MP backing the #CANBill? zerohour.uk
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bylinesnetwork.co.uk
'Environmental campaigners, Fossil Free North Yorkshire are calling on Ed Miliband, secretary of state for energy security and net zero, not to agree any extension of subsidies for tree burning power stations at Drax in Selby and Lynemouth in Northumberland.'
No more subsidies for tree burning power stations say environmental campaigners
Yorkshire campaigners call on the government to fund sustainable alternatives to wasteful wood-burning power stations
yorkshirebylines.co.uk