The Green Shopper
@greenshopper.bsky.social
Trying my best to live an ethical life. Happy to share my findings 💚
The largest cause of deforestation is, and has been, the expansion of farmland. But the production of which products, in particular, has been driving this in recent decades? A recent study, published in Nature Food by Chandrakant Singh and Martin Persson, answered this question.
1/4 If you earned US $13,250 every single day from the day Jesus was born until today, you still wouldn’t have made as much money as Shell made in profit in the last three months alone. IN THREE MONTHS!!! #MakePollutersPay #Renewables #EndFossilFuels
Getting more people to understand that cars are killing you and your community is the only way to help some folks drive less.
Greg Annandale@gregannandale.com · 3w agoI made an animation which shows the effects of air pollution on pedestrians waiting to cross the road, along with what can be done to reduce its harmful effects: stepback.gregdev.com Thank you to @ianwalker.bsky.social for the inspiration for doing so during a conversation a couple of weeks' back!
Right to Remain@right-to-remain.bsky.social · 2mo ago📣 Tonight!📣 Place-based campaigns to close down immigration detention centres: Campsfield and Derwentside – 4 June 2026, 6-7:30pm Meet local groups campaigning to shut down immigration detention centres, and find out how you can lend them your support! righttoremain.org.uk/place-based-...
Protecting forests = protecting public health. Every tree felled raises your risk of respiratory disease, stress, and chronic illness. So yes, reforestation is healthcare. 💚 Retweet if you believe forests save lives.
🚨If you do one thing this Sunday, sign this petition to STOP BLACKROCK IN OUR NHS. If we don’t fight back against corporate takeover of our NHS from US corporations like Palantir and BlackRock, we will lose it. Take action now before it’s too late. #NoToBlackRockInOurNHS vist.ly/4y6jh
The Oxford Climate Choir repurposed K-Pop demon hunters hit 'Golden' into the alternative “We’re Gonna Switch Our Bank” outside Oxford city centre bank branches today. The performance aimed to encourage bank customers to switch to banks with more environmentally friendly policies. (Sound on).
"One should not give a poisoner medicine, A conjurer fine apparatus, nor A rifle to a melancholic bore." WH Auden Not to mention the biggest arsenal in the world to a narcissistic attention-seeker.
We’ve done as much as we can at Warleigh Nature Reserve with almost zero budget, and charity coffers wiped perilously close to zero once the land purchase went through. Help me and the team at @protect.earth fight for nature in Bath by chucking in a few quid. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/warleigh-n...
Warleigh Nature Reserve, Bath
Bath's largest rewilding project has begun: Warleigh Nature Reserve. Right on the River Avon, and already full of beavers.
crowdfunder.co.uk
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
"These women in Calais are in crisis, but they are not a crisis. Each is a person. And how we treat them tells us everything about the kind of country we are choosing to be." Read the rest here 👇 bylinetimes.com/2025/12/18/i... @bylinetimes.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk @care4calais.org
Although Campsfield detention centre had closed in 2018 after hunger strikes and suicides, the government is reopening it in the face of opposition from local councils. Keep Campsfield Closed is renaming itself the Coalition to Close Campsfield. keepcampsfieldclosed.uk
Campaigners against the immigration removal centre at Campsfield House, which reopened today, protested in Kidlington and Oxford. Fifty people gathered at Carfax in what organisers described as “a sombre event, a kind of vigil”.
3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇 1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK 2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves 3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
Keir Starmer tries to look tough - and exposes himself as a coward
The government's immigration policy is in desperate need of a bold change in direction.
metro.co.uk
🔴The Sheer Scale of Conservative Mismanagement of the Asylum System Revealed Billions of pounds were wasted by successive Conservative Home Secretaries on a chaotic and costly system that left vulnerable people at risk, according to a new Parliamentary report bylinetimes.com/2025/10/27/t...
The Sheer Scale of Conservative Mismanagement of the Asylum System Revealed
Billions of pounds were wasted by successive Conservative Home Secretaries on a chaotic and costly system that left vulnerable people at risk, according to a new Parliamentary report
bylinetimes.com
🚨 ALL EYES on the Sumud Flotilla 🚨 As the Sumud Flotilla nears Israel’s illegally designated and enforced yellow zone demarking a maritime siege of Gaza, we repeat our call upon the international community to ensure the safety and success of the peaceful people’s aid mission.
I’ll sponsor one tree planted in the Lake District for the next 15 followers to get me to 4,000. I’ll send you a link to your certificate with your bluesky name/handle so you can see where it is. Please boost for reach. 🫡
My new workshop:small museums for mental health, is now live. I'll teach you how creating small museums alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health & we'll make small museums together 24 May,zoom, recording available afterwards Open to anyone,anywhere workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...
UPDATE: future of the Forest Garden looking more hopeful! @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @guyshrubsole.bsky.social @carolinevoadenmp.bsky.social westcountryvoices.co.uk/reject-corpo...
UPDATE on the Forest Garden! Hopeful, but keep signing that petition!
UPDATE: I am so glad to be able to report more encouraging news regarding the fate of this important project. I went to chat to Martin on Friday 14 March, and felt outraged on his behalf at the Trust’...
westcountryvoices.co.uk
Roses are red, violets are blue, Data centres must be powered by #renewables, Nothing less will do. 🌹 beyondfossilfuels.org/2025/02/10/s...
SYSTEM OVERLOAD: How new data centres could throw Europe’s energy transition off course
How new data centres could throw Europe’s energy transition off course
beyondfossilfuels.org
