Emily Williams
@Flutterbyknits
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Inverness Bicycle Mayor #pedalprovost and co-founder of Every Body Outdoors. Talking about the outdoor gear, cycling, body positivity, cycle infrastructure .
Inverness
Joined October 2012
On the radio again - setting the world to rights with the lovely @HelenNeedham and @steph_wetherell - chatting about Every Body Outdoors, plus size outdoor gear and how we started out campaign. https://t.co/hIzb2jDwgN
bbc.co.uk
Helen Needham chats with Emily and Steph co founders of Every Body Outdoors
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Repeat after me - cycle lanes are not parking spaces. This chap is doing some work on the railings, and it's "too far" to carry his tools from the car park 50m down the road, so is blocking the cycle lane and footpath @HighlandParking @kidicalmassINV @HighlandCouncil @CMInverness
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So urgent that the Nature Restoration fund was defunded earlier this year?
We need to take urgent action to halt the loss of biodiversity. Our new Strategic Biodiversity Framework sets out our ambition to: 🔵halt the loss of nature by 2030 🔵make significant progress in restoring nature by 2045 Watch for more and visit https://t.co/wdV2Wv3C2K
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I'm going on tour with Capsized! Join us for an evening of talking about canoeing, portaging and talking about the work that I do with Every Body Outdoors - celebrating joy and adventure.
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Reminder: Repeated fuel-duty freezes since 2011 have cost the govt at least £80bn and raised UK CO2 emissions by as much as 7% https://t.co/2oICuq9Ax9
carbonbrief.org
The cuts and freezes in fuel duty since 2010 means the UK’s CO2 emissions are as much as 7% higher than they would have been.
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Attention: will the owner of a small blue planet with tectonic plates please attend to your vehicle. It is overheating.
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😂😂 I wonder if they come in a size 20!
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Coincidentally, on the morning that this Times article/puff piece appeared advocating paid-for wild camping as a ‘solution’ to the Right to Roam, I woke up in a tent next on Dartmoor: the only place in England that free wild camping is still (just about) legal. Here are some of
Pay to camp wild: could this solve the right to roam debate? https://t.co/jWF8Fclhy9
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Being "able bodied" is temporary, you will age, you will get injured, you will get sick and you will wish you fought more for the system to protect the vulnerable.
Tell me your most radical position that cannot be placed on the left-right political spectrum
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One of the many benefits of 20mph limits is that your car insurance is likely to be cheaper - because there are fewer accidents and less damage and fewer injuries.
20mph news! Insurance company @askesure has said that introducing 20mph could reduce policy costs for drivers by £50 per year. Esure reduced premiums for people in Wales by 10% at the end of 2023 because of 20mph limit introduction. esure’s Peter Martin-Simon, chief customer
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Finance Secretary @ShonaRobison has just announced cuts to resource spend on sustainable and active travel. Yet despite acknowledging that @scotgov “cannot afford all of our capital commitments”, it has decided to make *no* cuts to its multi-billion pound road-building
BREAKING: Finance secretary Shona Robison has set out "urgent action" to make £500m of "savings" including cuts totalling £188m across all government portfolios.
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Trying new things - learning new skills. I could quickly become addicted to the feeling of sinking into the depths. It’s the most intimate I’ve felt with the sea in a long time (and also the most lions mane jellyfish 🪼)
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Being a woman is kind of like being a cyclist in a city where all the cars represent men. You're supposed to be able to share the road equally with cars, but that's not how it works. The roads are built for cars and you spend a great deal of physical and mental energy being
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@playingout Holding on to the memory of that day, of seeing the benefits, hearing the chatter, meeting new neighbours, making connections.....
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@playingout (Almost) everyone that I have spoken to has been really supportive, but somehow that hasn't quite translated into actually holding an event yet.
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The layers of inertia involved in trying to change the system for something that should be SO SIMPLE (residents choosing to use their street for play one morning a month). All respect to those who have campaigned before me and shared their knowledge and experience @playingout
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Holding a playstreet is one of the most rewarding things I have ever done. Feedback from everyone involved was so positive, and the day was beautiful. But after 4 years of campaigning we have still not got permission to hold a regular event. @DB_AKODS
https://t.co/KT74lpZAZk
theatlantic.com
In many ways, a world built for cars has made life so much harder for grown-ups.
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The rapid growth of SUV sales poses a significant threat to public safety. With SUVs now accounting for *over half * of all new car registrations, we must tackle the trend towards bigger and heavier (& more dangerous and more polluting) car use.
New study: Vehicles are more likely to kill pedestrians if they have tall and blunt front ends and/or flat hoods. That's a major indictment of American SUV and truck design -- at a time when US pedestrian deaths recently hit a 40-year high. https://t.co/cAiAlfrZh0
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The word ‘lifestyle’ has no place in public health comms IMO. Our behavioural choices from food to exercise are shaped by necessity, affordability, commitments, social conditioning, environment & health itself. Style hardly comes into the equation except for the super-privileged.
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