Chris Brown
@climatisechris.bsky.social
Rewilding, Renewables, Retrofit - Climatise.uk
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We would like to thank Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg for this poignant piece in the @observeruk.bsky.social
about the National Emergency Briefing.
"We need more faith in our power to confront the climate crisis"
#NationalEmergencyBriefing #neb2025
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
about the National Emergency Briefing.
"We need more faith in our power to confront the climate crisis"
#NationalEmergencyBriefing #neb2025
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
We need more faith in our power to confront the climate crisis | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We would like to thank Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg for this poignant piece in the @observeruk.bsky.social
about the National Emergency Briefing.
"We need more faith in our power to confront the climate crisis"
#NationalEmergencyBriefing #neb2025
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
about the National Emergency Briefing.
"We need more faith in our power to confront the climate crisis"
#NationalEmergencyBriefing #neb2025
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
@luketryl.bsky.social - We are the country that CAN on decarbonisation. Emissions have halved. The world didn't end. We can do this and it's great.
For our third panel, we're looking at how we communicate the 'Big Ideas' to maintain consensus for this govt's ambitions.
Joining us for this: @chriscurtis94.bsky.social, @luketryl.bsky.social, @christabelcoops.bsky.social, @sophievipond.bsky.social, chaired by @prafulnargund.bsky.social
#GGSummit
Joining us for this: @chriscurtis94.bsky.social, @luketryl.bsky.social, @christabelcoops.bsky.social, @sophievipond.bsky.social, chaired by @prafulnargund.bsky.social
#GGSummit
September 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
@luketryl.bsky.social - We are the country that CAN on decarbonisation. Emissions have halved. The world didn't end. We can do this and it's great.
@pollybillington.bsky.social 'bats and newts are not the enemy'. The planning system isn't working for nature or affordable decent housing supply.
We will shortly be kicking off our Green Growth Summit in partnership with @labourgrowth.bsky.social !
Our first panel focuses on nature and planning - with @rachelblakemp.bsky.social, @pollybillington.bsky.social,Natasha Hyde and Ali Plummer, chaired by @jessicaelgot.bsky.social
#GGSummit
Our first panel focuses on nature and planning - with @rachelblakemp.bsky.social, @pollybillington.bsky.social,Natasha Hyde and Ali Plummer, chaired by @jessicaelgot.bsky.social
#GGSummit
September 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
@pollybillington.bsky.social 'bats and newts are not the enemy'. The planning system isn't working for nature or affordable decent housing supply.
@elpinchbeck.bsky.social sums it up. The most important things you can do are, when you replace your boiler or your car, go electric. It's cheaper and better. @octopus.energy @nigelbanksoeg.bsky.social
June 23, 2025 at 9:46 AM
@elpinchbeck.bsky.social sums it up. The most important things you can do are, when you replace your boiler or your car, go electric. It's cheaper and better. @octopus.energy @nigelbanksoeg.bsky.social
@nigelbanksoeg.bsky.social Now doing gigs in front of 3000 people. Following warm up act @michaelshanksmp.co.uk and @octopus.energy CEO Greg Jackson. 😊
June 23, 2025 at 9:21 AM
@nigelbanksoeg.bsky.social Now doing gigs in front of 3000 people. Following warm up act @michaelshanksmp.co.uk and @octopus.energy CEO Greg Jackson. 😊
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We want to make sure Rachel Reeves MP sees some important % and ££s:
🇬🇧 80% of UK millionaires support a 2% tax on wealth over £10m
🇬🇧 81% think it’s patriotic to pay their fair share
We’re proud to pay and here to stay
#taxthesuperrich #taxwealthnotwork
🇬🇧 80% of UK millionaires support a 2% tax on wealth over £10m
🇬🇧 81% think it’s patriotic to pay their fair share
We’re proud to pay and here to stay
#taxthesuperrich #taxwealthnotwork
June 5, 2025 at 6:08 AM
We want to make sure Rachel Reeves MP sees some important % and ££s:
🇬🇧 80% of UK millionaires support a 2% tax on wealth over £10m
🇬🇧 81% think it’s patriotic to pay their fair share
We’re proud to pay and here to stay
#taxthesuperrich #taxwealthnotwork
🇬🇧 80% of UK millionaires support a 2% tax on wealth over £10m
🇬🇧 81% think it’s patriotic to pay their fair share
We’re proud to pay and here to stay
#taxthesuperrich #taxwealthnotwork
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The UK govt softened tax reforms on the superrich because of a widely reported “exodus” of millionaires fleeing the UK.
Our new study w/ @patmillsuk.bsky.social & @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social shows that the "exodus" was a complete fiction.
#BogusExodus #TaxTheSuperRich
taxjustice.net/press/millio...
Our new study w/ @patmillsuk.bsky.social & @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social shows that the "exodus" was a complete fiction.
#BogusExodus #TaxTheSuperRich
taxjustice.net/press/millio...
Millionaire exodus did not occur, study reveals - Tax Justice Network
The number of millionaires widely reported in the news to be leaving countries in "exodus" represented near-0% of all millionaires.
taxjustice.net
June 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
The UK govt softened tax reforms on the superrich because of a widely reported “exodus” of millionaires fleeing the UK.
Our new study w/ @patmillsuk.bsky.social & @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social shows that the "exodus" was a complete fiction.
#BogusExodus #TaxTheSuperRich
taxjustice.net/press/millio...
Our new study w/ @patmillsuk.bsky.social & @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social shows that the "exodus" was a complete fiction.
#BogusExodus #TaxTheSuperRich
taxjustice.net/press/millio...
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New comment piece for OnLondon by Chris Brown. Despite having the ear of local #Labour politicians, a group of long-established residents in Bermondsey feel their voices go unheard amid rapid local development activity: www.onlondon.co.uk/chris-brown-.... #London #bermondsey #planning
Chris Brown: Nobody's listening - OnLondon
Despite having the ear of local politicians, members of a community in Bermondsey undergoing rapid change feel that their voices go unheard
www.onlondon.co.uk
May 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
New comment piece for OnLondon by Chris Brown. Despite having the ear of local #Labour politicians, a group of long-established residents in Bermondsey feel their voices go unheard amid rapid local development activity: www.onlondon.co.uk/chris-brown-.... #London #bermondsey #planning
One of my local heroes (and his dad!). 😊
Getting the word out regarding the highly disruptive and deeply flawed proposed scheme.
May 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
One of my local heroes (and his dad!). 😊
What happens when landowners and developers don't listen.
May 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
What happens when landowners and developers don't listen.
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This is important. @southwarkls.bsky.social (Cycleway 14 closure) @treesforbermondsey.bsky.social (chopping down one of Ada Salter's trees of heaven & more), @snsprimary.bsky.social (thousands of polluting HGVs going past the school), @gstt-nhs.bsky.social (demolition of hospital patient car park)
May 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
This is important. @southwarkls.bsky.social (Cycleway 14 closure) @treesforbermondsey.bsky.social (chopping down one of Ada Salter's trees of heaven & more), @snsprimary.bsky.social (thousands of polluting HGVs going past the school), @gstt-nhs.bsky.social (demolition of hospital patient car park)
I know the feeling! 😔🤔
Frustratingly bad planning application for the #SnowsfieldsQuarter has landed. It's been rushed, contains errors, omissions and misleading statements. Described as 'All about Profit, not People'.
@se1.news
Harsh impact on elderly residents & vulnerable patients.
www.linkedin.com/posts/welove...
@se1.news
Harsh impact on elderly residents & vulnerable patients.
www.linkedin.com/posts/welove...
April 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I know the feeling! 😔🤔
@treesforbermondsey.bsky.social Can you help save this beautiful healthy historic mature TPO protected Snowsfields SE1 Plane tree from the Guinness Partnership axe? @snsprimary.bsky.social planning.southwark.gov.uk/online-appli...
April 8, 2025 at 10:38 AM
@treesforbermondsey.bsky.social Can you help save this beautiful healthy historic mature TPO protected Snowsfields SE1 Plane tree from the Guinness Partnership axe? @snsprimary.bsky.social planning.southwark.gov.uk/online-appli...
March 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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There is an alternative to Government welfare cuts - a 2% tax on wealth. There is no shortage of money here, we just need a fairer approach to tax - take more from the few not the many.
March 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM
There is an alternative to Government welfare cuts - a 2% tax on wealth. There is no shortage of money here, we just need a fairer approach to tax - take more from the few not the many.
Lots of love to Great Yarmouth! 😊
The #TaxOurWealth tour continues today starting with Great Yarmouth. Clacton, we’ll see you this afternoon.
No more cuts. For a better Britain, we want MPs to listen and tax the richest people like us. It’s the patriotic thing to do 🇬🇧
No more cuts. For a better Britain, we want MPs to listen and tax the richest people like us. It’s the patriotic thing to do 🇬🇧
March 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Lots of love to Great Yarmouth! 😊
Great thread...
Extreme wealth is extreme control. Never has this been so clear. Well we don’t have to settle for it. In our letter to Davos leaders, 370+ millionaires & billionaires say we must draw the line. Protect ppl, planet, & democracy: rein in extreme wealth & tax us, the super rich.
Influence of super rich on Donald Trump threatens democracy, say Patriotic Millionaires
January 22, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Great thread...
Billionaire wealth has risen 3 times faster in 2024 than 2023 according to @oxfamgb.bsky.social with 60% coming from either inheritance, cronyism and corruption or monopoly power.
This gross level of wealth hoarding is unjust and unsustainable.
Now is the time to tax the super-rich properly.
This gross level of wealth hoarding is unjust and unsustainable.
Now is the time to tax the super-rich properly.
January 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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The Times/Sunday Times often do vg data journalism. This front-page story is an example of just deciding not to do that, so lots of voices, but so little attention to what the number in the headline means
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Labour’s tax plans trigger exodus of millionaires from UK
Since the general election was called one dollar millionaire has left Britain every 45 minutes
www.thetimes.com
January 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The Times/Sunday Times often do vg data journalism. This front-page story is an example of just deciding not to do that, so lots of voices, but so little attention to what the number in the headline means
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
I'd forgotten the lyrics of this 1969 environmental song.
It all feels so relevant apart from the dates. They should be starting at 2025 and finishing 'one hundred years' from now to align with what's happened in the last 55 years.
In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus) g.co/kgs/Gc2WVjA
It all feels so relevant apart from the dates. They should be starting at 2025 and finishing 'one hundred years' from now to align with what's happened in the last 55 years.
In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus) g.co/kgs/Gc2WVjA
Solar Matching Explorer
openenergymonitor.org
January 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I'd forgotten the lyrics of this 1969 environmental song.
It all feels so relevant apart from the dates. They should be starting at 2025 and finishing 'one hundred years' from now to align with what's happened in the last 55 years.
In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus) g.co/kgs/Gc2WVjA
It all feels so relevant apart from the dates. They should be starting at 2025 and finishing 'one hundred years' from now to align with what's happened in the last 55 years.
In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus) g.co/kgs/Gc2WVjA
Great thread. Solutions do exist for London's terraced homes. If local authorities choose to take them. Office for Zero Emission Vehicles advice to local authorities on cross pavement charging can't come quick enough. And needs to be effective. Radical Modernisation
www.linkedin.com/pulse/radica...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/radica...
January 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Great thread. Solutions do exist for London's terraced homes. If local authorities choose to take them. Office for Zero Emission Vehicles advice to local authorities on cross pavement charging can't come quick enough. And needs to be effective. Radical Modernisation
www.linkedin.com/pulse/radica...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/radica...
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@richardjmurphy.bsky.social finishes this article with "The other is a wholly new approach to economics. I see very little in between these two positions.
The old narratives are dead. We are waiting for the new to be born."
The new narrative is already here. doughnuteconomics.org/about-doughn...
The old narratives are dead. We are waiting for the new to be born."
The new narrative is already here. doughnuteconomics.org/about-doughn...
December 23, 2024 at 8:57 AM
@richardjmurphy.bsky.social finishes this article with "The other is a wholly new approach to economics. I see very little in between these two positions.
The old narratives are dead. We are waiting for the new to be born."
The new narrative is already here. doughnuteconomics.org/about-doughn...
The old narratives are dead. We are waiting for the new to be born."
The new narrative is already here. doughnuteconomics.org/about-doughn...
This will be particularly interesting to spatial planners.
Doughnut Economics - providing society's needs within the planet's limits - should b the purpose of the English National Planning Policy Framework.
It isn't. Successive UK Governments have promoted GDP growth that fails on both objectives.
Doughnut Economics - providing society's needs within the planet's limits - should b the purpose of the English National Planning Policy Framework.
It isn't. Successive UK Governments have promoted GDP growth that fails on both objectives.
A thought provoking article that links #DoughnutEconomics to Strategic Spatial Planning and explores how this is done in Amsterdam.
Possibly best read from the end first (the practical description of Amsterdam) for spatial planners.
Doughnut Economics is 'growth agnostic'. Degrowth is one option.
Possibly best read from the end first (the practical description of Amsterdam) for spatial planners.
Doughnut Economics is 'growth agnostic'. Degrowth is one option.
A very interesting article that talks #degrowth, wellbeing, donut economics, strategy:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Achieving "satiation" is the key. It applies to lifestyles, business, narratives.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Achieving "satiation" is the key. It applies to lifestyles, business, narratives.
December 22, 2024 at 12:04 PM
This will be particularly interesting to spatial planners.
Doughnut Economics - providing society's needs within the planet's limits - should b the purpose of the English National Planning Policy Framework.
It isn't. Successive UK Governments have promoted GDP growth that fails on both objectives.
Doughnut Economics - providing society's needs within the planet's limits - should b the purpose of the English National Planning Policy Framework.
It isn't. Successive UK Governments have promoted GDP growth that fails on both objectives.