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Alice Griffiths

@geogriffi.bsky.social

Teacher, author, geographer. Fairtrade fanatic, landscapes nerd & place junkie. Editing, reviewing and writing #geoged. FRGS. Conservation volunteer. Mum of girls. Views my own.

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Alice Griffiths@geogriffi.bsky.social · last wk.

Saw the People's Briefing film this evening. It is so important that the public receive a live emergency briefing to demonstrate the need for climate action and the possible ways ahead. I wonder what Greg Smith MP thinks?

National Emergency Briefing@nebriefing.bsky.social · last wk.

Thank you to the MPs who recently joined the call for Gov to hold a live emergency briefing on the climate & nature crisis. Sir @eddavey.libdems.org.uk becomes the first Westminster party leader to call for trusting the public with the facts. www.nebriefing.org/parliamentar... It's #TimeToStepUp

Alice Griffiths@geogriffi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Hard-hitting story from Afghanistan, in From Our Own Correspondent this morning: 'Three quarters of Afghans are struggling to find food, work and access to healthcare'. Impact of drought, Taliban policy and IGOs withdrawing aid #bbcradio4 #Afghanistan #dontlookaway www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, Afghanistan: Shaiqa's story

A father makes an unenviable decision in order to fund his daughter's medical treatment.

bbc.co.uk

Helen Czerski@helenczerski.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A single line in this piece just made my day: “The electricity system operator is understood to be preparing to run the grid without any gas for short periods as soon as this summer, in a first for the UK energy system.” Renewables *work*. And progress matters🎉 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Britain breaks solar energy record twice as UK’s biggest solar farm gets approval

Record high set on Monday and raised on Tuesday, with 14.4GW of electricity generated in sunny spring weather

theguardian.com

Helen Czerski@helenczerski.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Maybe these need to be put on a few menus/supermarket walls. These are from the UK National Food Strategy, showing the proportion of UK land used for different things (huge for beef/lamb, tiny for crops), & where we get our calories and protein (68% & 52% from plants). The difference is staggering.

Map of the UK, showing the huge proportion of land used for beef, dairy and lamb production and the tiny proportion used for crops, next to a plot showing that 68% of UK calories and 52% of our protein come from the plants.
Our World in Data@ourworldindata.org · 7mo ago

📊 Data update: Where are people being forced from their homes because of conflict or disaster? A record 83 million people globally were living in internal displacement at the end of 2024 — forced from their homes by conflict, violence, or natural disasters, but remaining within their own country.

Choropleth world map of country-level counts of internally displaced people in 2024 where shading shows the number of people currently displaced within each country. The map highlights very large displaced populations in parts of eastern and central Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia (including Afghanistan and Pakistan), with notable levels in Colombia and parts of Southeast Asia. Much of Europe, North America, Australia and several countries in South America show low or no reported displacement. The data source is the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (2026). The chart is licensed CC BY to Our World in Data.
Helen Czerski@helenczerski.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Sadly, this is absolutely necessary and I welcome it for at least 2 reasons: Books are personal, about sharing experience & exploring ideas - if you’ve read my books, you’ve met me. And a human author is *accountable* for what they/we write: we take responsibility & influences/money are traceable.

UK Society of Authors launches logo to identify books written by humans not AI

Tracy Chevalier announces registration scheme at the London Book Fair as AI works flood market

theguardian.com