Annie Leymarie
@annieleymarie
Nature / Climate / More-than-humans / Degrowth / Social justice / Food, Farming and Land Use / Energy / Retrofits / Transport... with typos London
"Meet together as campaigners and take a photo together with the banner in your constituency and send a message to your MP and the Government that you want them to reject the Rosebank oil field." Everything you need to order your FREE banner to take action is here: tinyurl.com/bddp5wc4
Tell your MP that the Rosebank oil/gas field must be stopped. You can order a banner, get together with some people and send them a pic + clear message. In Lewisham, I've joined with Green Party councillors & members, and within a 'People Planet Pint' gathering. How to get a banner in the next post
Fair enough, 🙏 but I had yet more conversations yesterday with people not understanding that air cons *are* heat pumps & thus, for instance, the issue of refrigerants applies essentially to all. We still need better info on types of heat pumps/air cons, passive measures for both heat and cold, etc
Good to see Dave Goulson confirming solid evidence on various aspects of food systems, available for a long time now. (But in his longer review, @jpjoughin.bsky.social mentions a book by Joanna Blythman: she's been shown to belong to a nexus of disinformants on food systems: shorturl.at/noBoj
Another example of confusing info on one site: heat pumps for cooling are demonised for their energy use, potential refrigerant leaks & risk to distract from systemic solutions whilst the same tech for heating is only shown as beneficial (tho admittedly *portable* A/C/heat pumps are inefficient)
Exactly! The vagueness means that some of the most polluting big food corporations have run with the concept - and even in Europe: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
There's no official definition of 'regenerative' criteria. I would personally prefer not to think that maybe I'm getting milked... wildfarmed.com/pages/farming
At Tesco UK, you pay £1.65 for a litre of organic oat mylk & £1.80 for 1 of 'regenerative' mylk from the same brand. What's regenerative? On the farms' webiste: "We found that being too prescriptive risked becoming dogmatic, limiting farmers’ ability to adapt to the specific contexts of their land."
A quick search would have shown you various studies stating much higher contributions - e.g. below (However, I am yet to see similar studies on the contribution of heat pumps to cold urban micro-climates in winter) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Perhaps visualised even more effectively below... but the data is outdated. Wild terrestrial mammals are now just 2% of the whole (or even less, the downward trend has continued since that latest study)
Yes, and for the UK, including land used overseas for meat/dairy production: www.nationalfoodstrategy.org
Worth remembering that, of the terrestrial mammals on Earth, by mass only 2% are wild; 98% are our domestic animals and us. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
*predators and competing wild herbivores are kept away or eliminated... With wild herbivores, there is far more scope to give a free(er) hand to nature, a key condition for genuine rewilding www.ecos.org.uk/ecos-35-34-m...
Among many factors potentially differentiating wild & domestic herbivores: livestock tend to be mostly juveniles, extracted and replaced when still young; they're mostly methane-emitting ruminants - mostly a few species; predators tend to be kept away or eliminated; carcasses are removed, etc.
The meat and dairy industry uses the same misleading tactics and lobbying power as the fossil fuel industry, but arguably gets away with even more. Besides scientific consensus, the EU Commission is ignoring the opinion from these:
Prof Tim Lang about the UK's 'uplands' (our mountains!), in 2016: www.vice.com/en/article/w...
The Birtish public supports climate action But ➡️More & more fly shorturl.at/S5YtU ➡️More & more buy SUVs shorturl.at/LNeuj ➡️Red meat production is not going ⬇️; consumption is, but far less than recommended shorturl.at/6a2Dc ➡️Fewer Brits electrify their home than European neighbours shorturl.at/IgTSZ
Current temperature difference from "normal" in the UK istheukhotrightnow.com
Yet another frustrating article on air con in the UK (below) that fails to mention that A/C that "uses lots of electricity" is also the type of heat pump that will save you the most energy and money for heating in winter. The same air con tech described here: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-hea...
But if you are physically able, why not have a covered e-bike? For instance
Choose a plant-based ice cream. About a quarter of the current warming is due to the meat and dairy industry
(PS One of my bills last winter was in credit by many hundreds of £, purely because I hadn't got round to claiming the money back for a long time!). Now I do it regularly.
Below: a short talk aimed at fellow aficionados but providing good info on the Passive House standards and the fast-growing movement. Two slides from it - on the climate benefits (but Michael Ingui argues that the comfort benefits wil convince more people), and a map of current certified projects
The most widespread advice I read, at least for south and west-facing facades (which heat up most) is to choose light colours. It's the same principle as painting buildings white, etc E.g. www.teptext.com/blog/solar-h...?
almost certainly use a better tariff, that takes advantage of price fluctuations (and keep meaning to look into it). We should soon be able to buy plug-in solar and plug-in batteries in the UK and I may consider that, if only to test them. Might change tariff then. But at least I keep being paid!