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Dom Pates

@dompates.bsky.social

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Educational Technologist, in HE. Father/husband. Writer. Brightonian/ex-Tokyoite. DJ/podcaster. European. Transitionist. (Occasional) Musician. Not necessarily in that order?

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · May 20

If #NetZero is the simple but complex slogan to define the story of where we want to get to with #ClimateChange - where the carbon cycle is brought back into balance - what’s the equivalent story slogan for sustainability? #CircularEconomy? #NaturePositive? Or is it too complex to reduce like that?

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s a thing that’s pretty staggering from this deck:

‘The sun supplies more energy to Earth every 5 days than all fossil fuel reserves’

I mean…wow!

herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 1d

Hi everyone, and for more optimism (about some things), here's the 112 pp ember slide deck on the renewable revolution @70sbachchan.bsky.social
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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 1d

Ahead of the game, as ever, Snigdha!

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😂😂😂

The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 4d

Old enough to remember a Murdoch purchase being the death of MySpace…

Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 4d

Delighted to hear it - so it should. Same with solar roof tiles. Why on Earth shouldn’t our houses capture all the energy that they need to run rather than pipe it in from halfway around the world?

Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 4d

Havel spins in his grave, etc, etc

Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 4d

This time, we’re not going to let the outside world hand us over to a mass murdering, imperialist dictator. This time, we’re going to hand ourselves over to a mass murdering, imperialist dictator! DIY appeasement.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš wins Czech parliamentary election

With Babiš’s victory the Czech Republic looks set to join Hungary and Slovakia in refusing support for Ukraine

www.theguardian.com

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 4d

Even looking into the potential of concrete for energy storage is a fascinating idea. I always think that regular glass windows must be possible to be doubled up as solar panels somehow (provided, of course, they remain transparent).

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 4d

Great to hear. And thanks - my own little one’s a wonder in her own way. Amidst all the sh*t in the world, if our kids don’t give us hope, what will?!

Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely phenomenal - go her!

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 5d

Came across a fascinating reframing of a common phrase in the Jane Goodall memorials on the podcast feeds last night.

Instead of the more common ‘Think global, act local’, she flipped it to be ‘Think local, act global’.

What would that mean to you?

Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 6d

Hopefully, exactly at the point that I’m toying with having a PhD in the bag (if I dare be so bold as to assume I’d be able to get it over the line at all)…

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 6d

The politics of drawing a moral line: When we need to call out racism for what it is open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

The politics of drawing a moral line

The politics of drawing a moral line.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 6d

Those damned ‘shoe-wearing elites’ - they’re everywhere!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 6d

This is a brilliant demolition of Kemi Badenoch's nonsense about the Climate Change Act by @fionaharvey.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As Tories vow to scrap ‘failed targets’, how do their climate claims stack up?

We fact check Kemi Badenoch and her party after she promised to repeal Climate Change Act if they win power

www.theguardian.com

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 6d

An hour of music radio all about #RenewableEnergies, you say? Of course you want to tune in!

D1 Radio Hour tonight, live on ttns.uk at 23:00 (UK time) with a set entirely dedicated to solar, wind, waves (oh yes, and batteries).

Join us in the chatroom if you can.

#transitionism

Poster for a D1 Radio Hour set on The Thursday Night show, titled ‘Musical Renewables’ (live on air Oct 2nd 23:00 UK time). Shows a wind turbine by the sea with a sunset sky.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 6d

And then the formation of Apple Corps. Or even Rolling Stones Records…

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gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 7d

"Tomelilla is the first local government to attempt to deliver infrastructure and education using doughnut economics" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘It feels cool to be a cog in change’: how doughnut economics is reshaping a Swedish town

A casual mention of Kate Raworth’s theory has grown into the basis for decision making in Tomelilla

www.theguardian.com

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 7d

My goodness. Seems *some* in the US media see what’s really on the end of the fork.

Gerd Leonhard @futuristgerd.com · 7d

youtube.com/watch?v=gPpU... wow hard hitting

Lawrence: Trump was 'on the verge of outright insanity' in deranged speech to military commanders

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 7d

And why call it 'golden ticket'?

Disgraceful language. These people have lost everything. Should they also lose their spouses and children?

A reminder that last year 4,671 family reunion visas were granted.

4,671.

Does anyone think this number is a major problem for the UK economy and society?

Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 7d

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.

This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 7d

Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete

Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act

Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate

www.theguardian.com

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Kate Raworth @kateraworth.bsky.social · 7d

(1) I've written a short paper, 'The Evolving Doughnut', which concisely sets out the ideas that inspired the framework I created in 2012, & describes how & why it has changed over its three iterations. Plus download the latest Doughnut diagrams (CC-BY) 5/

doughnuteconomics.org/tools/the-ev...

The Evolving Doughnut | DEAL

A report by Kate Raworth on the Doughnut's evolution since 2012, with the latest Doughnut diagrams available to download

doughnuteconomics.org

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Kate Raworth @kateraworth.bsky.social · 7d

Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 7d

And there was me thinking that beards were supposed to be out… 🤷🏻‍♂️

Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 7d

Is this the political equivalent of that Simpsons rake gif?