Greg Annandale

@gregannandale.com

Software engineering at @raspberrypiorg.bsky.social Photography at https://gregannandale.com Volunteer at @protect.earth

I 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!

'Step back' - air pollution at pedestrian crossings

Every busy road produces a cloud of pollution you can't see. Where you stand in it matters more than most people might realise.

stepback.gregdev.com

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

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Lower Thames Crossing will destroy 0.32 hectares of ancient woodland per km, which is 3x the 0.09 hectares of ancient woodland directly impacted per km for HS2. Then there’s the emissions for construction and usage. Both wildly different. Can we please get mad about the right projects.

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🚨 BATH: Lidl are once again trying to trash a wildflower meadow in Bath. There’s beavers living there, and this land should be protected and enhanced not tarmaced (which will obviously make the flooding worse.) Please object asap and donate to legal transitionlarkhall.wordpress.com/save-baths-w...

Save Bath’s Wildlife Haven

Help Keep the Lambridge’s Green Meadow Safe from Development into a LIDL Supermarket Please OBJECT by 7th June 2025 at B&NES Planning Portal using Planning Application Reference Number 25…

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Pet owners accidentally poisoning garden birds. Our latest research finds pet flea treatments (fipronil and imidacloprid) in 100% of blue tit and great tit nests, with nestling mortality higher in the more contaminated nest. @SongBirdSBS @SussexUni @CannelleTassin

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Still battling through completion of the Warleigh / Bath land acquisition, and some more land has come up for sale nearby that 1) needs restoration, 2) would solve a lot of logistical issues with the first. Gonna need ~£100k. Who’s up for a challenge? www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/reforestat...

Create a community woodland on the River Avon

Help secure 70 acres of disused farmland on the River Avon near Bath, to create woodland, wetlands, and grasslands for climate and nature.

crowdfunder.co.uk