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We voted for a Green council in Bristol, but their draft Local Plan would allow developers to build on almost any green space. 🌱🏗️ There is still time to persuade them to change it. ✊🕰️
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Some people, not all looking down-and-out, make money going around collecting these empties. To save rummaging in rubbish bins one sees bottles left beside bins ready for collection. Even a waiter at an outdoor café was keeping empties, thus helping poor people
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One proven way to reduce plastic litter/pollution is for supermarkets to take back empty containers.
On the European continent it's common to charge a small deposit on plastic bottles & cans. Empties are fed back into machines that issue money vouchers to reduce the next shopping bill.
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Bristol's is England’s largest harbour-based water source heat pump supplying heat & hot water into the Bristol Heat Network, serving thousands of homes, schools & offices in the city.
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Bristol has its very own large heat pump called "Castle Park Energy Centre (Water Source Heat Pump)"
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Although at 3 MW it is 27 times smaller than the Rhine one it is nothing to be sneezed at. 🤧
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New solar tech keeps improving — but the climate crisis isn’t waiting.
We already have mature renewables that could slash emissions now.
Clean energy technology is advancing; the real barrier to climate action is political and economic will, not lack of innovation.
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Tandem solar panels are not yet widely sold: they are still experimental, with durability and mass production unresolved.
By contrast, modern commercial panels already achieve ~20–23% efficiency, are cheap, reliable, and proven to last 25+ years.
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Today, researchers using tandem solar cells — where perovskite captures higher-energy light and silicon captures lower-energy light — have pushed efficiency to around 31% in laboratories.
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Protecting forests while improving existing farmland and reducing waste would strengthen food security far more effectively.
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Clearing forests increases flood risk, intensifies droughts, and degrades soils, making harvests more fragile, not more secure.
Short-term gains in production can be wiped out by long-term losses from climate damage triggered by deforestation itself.
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The government sells the mega-farm as “food security”, saying it will cut dependence on imports like rice and soy and protect against climate shocks.
But true food security isn’t just about volume — it’s about stability, soils, water, and ecosystems that keep farming viable long term.
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The project is set to grow to five times the size of London, locking in permanent ecological damage and higher greenhouse gas emissions.
It also threatens to undo a decade of hard-won progress in slowing forest loss from palm oil expansion.
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