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Really looking forward to this next week - Thursday 9th May at
@Bushhallmusic
🎟️
Join us on May 9 to hear more from
@HughFW
and Dr Federica Amati on the science behind nutrition and plant-first living 🥕🥦
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Anyone else been spending time this weekend desperately hoping for breaking news, or some gaffe, tweet or meme that unambiguously reveals to all just what a disaster it would be to hand Boris Johnson a majority on Thursday?
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I’m voting in the Honiton and Tiverton by-election today. And I’m afraid I’m going to break a pledge I made a year ago, when I joined the Green Party. I said I was fed up of voting tactically and made a commitment to vote Green at every opportunity. ⬇️
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So
@Tesco
say that they could remove plastic packaging tomorrow if it was the right thing to do. I think it’s the right thing to do. I reckon
@itsanitarani
thinks it’s the right thing to do. What do YOU think?
#WarOnPlastic
#OurPlasticFeedback
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And so, with apologies to my friends in the Green Party, of which I remain proud to be a member, today I will be voting for the Lib Dems. I will not feel as good or as honest as I would voting green. But in a contest that could well go to the wire, I feel it’s what I have to do.
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I must say I really didn’t know keeping goats was going to be quite so much fun! 🐐🐐🐐
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The wrongest thing about Boris’
#LoveActually
broadcast (apart from every single bit of it) is the suggestion that a hung parliament would be some kind of disaster, when right now it’s probably the best way to avert one, to head off extremism, and spread a bit of love, actually.
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The people of Welwyn Hatfield, constituency of so-called Net Zero minister
@grantshapps
, are waking up to these posters, which I pasted up in the small hours of the morning. If you agree with the message, please spread as widely as possible!
#climatefight
#onshorewind
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This is ABSURD. Solar power is rightly popular w/ the public who understand that it provides cheap, homegrown energy that brings down people’s bills. And solar SUPPORTS food production – providing a stable income for farmers helping them stay in business.
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Doesn’t it look just great when the
#plastic
is taken away! Who would like this to be something that all supermarkets do?
#WarOnWaste
#OnePlasticFreeDay
#WorldEnvironmentDay
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I completely agree with
@DaleVince
and
@ChrisGPackham
👇🏼Sunak has doubled down on fossil fuels to make his mates in the industry richer while the rest of us go to hell. No doubt he hopes they’ll pay to rebuild his party when we vote them out next year. Let's never have them back!
Sunak is breathtakingly dishonest. From his shameless claim that Starmer’s policy to stop drilling in the North Sea (entirely as per international scientific & political consensus) was bought by donations from an environmentalist, to his claims that his own rogue policies to…
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Hi
@tesco
,
@sainsburys
, how about helping us out and making loose fruit and veg cheaper than the packaged alternatives?!
#WarOnPlastic
@itsanitarani
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It’s going to be very tight, but if we can unseat the Tories here today we can, in a small but not insignificant way, shift the dial towards a progressive alliance and perhaps ultimately a more representative democracy. ⬇️
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It’s the height of the British apple season and without doubt one of the best harvests in years. So why does the
@marksandspencer
food concession in Bristol Temple Meads station only sell apples from New Zealand and South Africa?
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Some even bigger posters up in London now... 👀
And it's clear from talking to the constituents of Welwyn Hatfield earlier today that they don't have much time for their MP
@grantshapps
and his (almost non-existent) climate policy
#ClimateActionNow
#ClimateFight
#onshorewind
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Yes, the brilliant people of Exeter were 100% clear that the ghastly Rwanda deportation plan has no place in our society. Leaves
@RishiSunak
short on his 5 pledges. How about replacing it with some real leadership on climate?
@grantshapps
@SuellaBraverman
@ChiefExecCCC
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In the simple and compelling words of Sir David Attenborough, “Dear Supermarkets, for the sake of the planet, less plastic please!
#OurPlasticFeedback
”
#WarOnPlastic
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Sunak is clearly determined to do to the environment what Truss did to the economy. Utterly shameful and very very wrong!
"It should be you, the consumer that makes that choice, not government forcing you to do it"
PM Rishi Sunak confirms ban on sales of new petrol and diesel cars in the UK will be delayed until 2035
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I simply wanted my green vote to be counted, even when I knew I couldn’t really make it count.
A system where one million General Election votes gets the Tories 20 MPs but the Greens only 1 is a grossly unfair system. ⬇️
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I am so very sad to say that our dearest friend Nick Fisher has passed away. He was always full of insight and compassion, which is what made him such a great writer and broadcaster, as well as a brilliant friend. His lovely family and his many friends are missing him terribly.
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At
@Waitrose
to see their “unpacked” trial to remove & reduce
#plastic
from our supermarket shop - really impressive. Met lots of happy shoppers who say this is what they want. Is this the future? Only if we get on board - & pressure the supermarkets to do the same.
#WarOnPlastic
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I 💚
@GreenpeaceUK
, especially when they do this kind of stuff. Perhaps they could also fill up his swimming pool with oil. He seems to love the stuff so much, I'm sure he'd enjoy wallowing in it.
Greenpeace protesters drape giant oil-black fabric over Sunak’s mansion
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Hey
@Jeremy_Hunt
We give oil and gas companies £42 million each week in tax breaks! Why not save the planet instead?
#climatefight
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I’m sure lots of you have seen this already, but what a brave, funny and thought provoking challenge to David Beckham from the brilliant
@joelycett
.
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@MattHancock
I welcome the gov’s obesity strategy to fight this epidemic, protect our children and help save our NHS. Let’s make sure that bold proposals become BOLD ACTIONS. I’ll be watching.
#BritainsFatFight
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So unfair that there are times when the opportunity to “game it to change it” becomes almost impossible to resist. Today I have such an opportunity, a chance to cast a vote that might actually have an impact on that system. ⬇️
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This is in Malaysia. Why should our waste end up here for others to deal with and suffer from? We didn’t sign up for that when we put out our recycling, did we?
@greenpeaceuk
@greenpeace
#WarOnPlastic
#PlasticPollution
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It’s great to celebrate the breathtaking beauty of British wildlife. But to pull the episode that explains that much of it is under threat makes the whole series impotent as a force for good. I bet SDA isn’t happy and we deserve better from
@BBC
, a public service broadcaster.
BBC will not broadcast Attenborough episode over fear of rightwing backlash
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1/4 I never thought I would be using social media for this, but my very dearest friend Nick Fisher, who some of you will know from his journalism and telly work, has gone missing.
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I’m with Steve Coogan.
#TacticalVoting
isn’t just a negative vote against the party you fear. It’s a positive vote for more inclusive coalition-based politics - what we need right now.
@hackedoffhugh
@davidscheider
@DeborahMeaden
@campbellclaret
#GE2019
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Like Trump before him, only more so, Boris LOST the popular vote. Over 56 per cent of votes went against the Tories. Yet they have huge majority. Only a fair electoral system can give us a just society. But a tragically small chance of getting it in the next 5 years.
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We’ve had enough of so much unnecessary
#plastic
packaging all over our supermarket shopping. So supermarkets, this is
#OurPlasticFeedback
! Watch episode 3 of
#WarOnPlastic
TONIGHT at 9pm
@BBCOne
to find out more. RT and let’s spread this message far and wide!
#plasticpollution
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Every day, destructive fishing vessels destroy miles upon miles of ecosystem in so-called protected UK waters, while the government stands by and lets it happen. (1/2)
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I’m voting
#Green
tomorrow for a People’s Vote and a People’s Planet. I.e. one that’s actually worth living on.
#getoutforthegreenparty
#peoplesvote
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If
#Glastonbury
can get rid of plastic bottles then why not
#Wimbledon
? Time for tennis to embrace
#refill
!
#Wimbledon2019
:
@ExtinctionR
(
@XRWandsworth
and
@XRMerton
) to campaign against 'unnecessary' single-use plastics at tournament | London Evening Standard
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In
#Bristol
today with my sister and family to support climate striking students and hear
@GretaThunberg
. The weather looks horrendous - but nothing compared to what we’ll get if we don’t take
#climateaction
NOW!
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Shockingly, the UK is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world.
We need to send the UK Gov
@10DowningStreet
@RishiSunak
a clear signal that nature restoration must happen—and must happen NOW. We need to stand united for nature.
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It’s estimated that we spend around £60M pounds a year on bottled water in plastic stations. Who’s up for joining the
#RefillOntheRoad
revolution?
#WarOnPlastic
@Refill
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A year after I asked
@KelloggsUK
to step up and adopt traffic lights on their breakfast cereals they have actually done it! 🚦 Such brilliant news, this will make it easier for parents to make healthier and informed choices. H x
#BritainsFatFight
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If you knew which wet wipes had plastic in them, from clear labelling on the pack, would it help you decide whether you wanted to buy them or not?
#WarOnPlastic
#plasticpollution
@itsanitarani
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We managed to germinate an acorn and it’s just sprouted its first leaves. We’ll grow it on and plant it out, and hope that one day someone will love swinging from its branches. Just as my daughter does from the oak beneath which she found this little acorn...
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For the past year
@itsanitarani
and I have been investigating the problem with
#plastics
, and what we can do to solve it.
#WarOnPlastic
hits your screens on Monday 10th of June
@BBCOne
9pm.
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It's amazing to hear about all the changes so many of you are making to reduce the amount of
#plastic
in your lives. But who feels like we need help from big business too? And fast?
#WarOnPlastic
#plasticpollution
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Briefly in beautiful Brighton-great to be among folk with guts/vision to reject false promises of the major parties and elect brilliant
@CarolineLucas
for
@TheGreenParty
A rare politician putting constituents/principles above personal gain/vested interests. We need more like her!
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Spot on
@PlasticEveryday
. Just how much disdain for the
#environment
can be expressed in a single picture? Get yourself a
#refill
bottle Mr
@BorisJohnson
.
#WarOnPlastic
#PlasticPollution
Boris mate. THREE plastic bottles? Surely a clean glass is available for your water at the new gaff? And a filter machine and mug for your coffee? Or use some of the £39bn we apparently save from a no deal Brexit and hire your own personal barista. And get your feet off the table
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Come on supermarkets, what about simply selling us products without all this plastic?!
#WarOnPlastic
#OurPlasticFeedback
@MorrisonsNews
@Tesco
@sainsburys
@asda
@LidlGB
@coopuk
@marksandspencer
@IcelandFoods
@AldiUK
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@CocaCola
it’s NOT your privilege to redefine
#singleuse
. ALL your drinks bottles are single use, whether they get recycled or not. And
@smartwater
isn’t smart. Carrying a refill bottle is smart. And drinking free tap water instead of sugary drinks is even smarter!
#WarOnPlastic
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Shocking story from
@itvnews
: Supermarkets
@IcelandFoods
,
@LidlGB
and
@asda
selling products from a Polish chicken farm, illegally laced with antibiotics. This fuels anti-b resistance and causes fatal outbreaks of e-coli. Leave these products alone til they get their acts together
Three UK supermarkets sell antibiotic dosed chickens linked to deadly superbug outbreak, as
@DanielHewittITV
reports
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A pleasure to be invited onto
@bbclaurak
to point out the government's woeful track record on climate and stress the urgency and opportunity of lifting the ban on onshore wind. And what a treat to meet legend
#TimothySpall
. His new film
#BolansShoes
sounds fantastic!
#EnergyBill
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Voted
#Green
today for politicians with integrity and a planet we can all live on. Plus a
#PeoplesVote
into the bargain! 🌎
#EUelections2019
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Fantastic news from
@itsanitarani
that Burger King have stopped distributing plastic toys with kids meals. It sounds like Ella and Caitlin and their petition played more than a small part! Congratulations all!
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Such a great move that no
#plastic
drinks bottles are on sale at
@glastofest
& the
#refill
alternative is working. That’s hundreds of thousands of plastic bottles saved &, let’s hope, a sign that water refill everywhere will soon be the new normal.
#waronplastic
#glastonbury19
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Hooray!
@NestleUKI
committed to adopting colour coding traffic lights in the UK. 👏
#BritainsFatFight
#TurnYourLightsOn
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If we’re going to bring about the change that our planet needs, we’re going to need to make our voices heard. Our supermarkets always say that they value our feedback, so let’s take them up on it! Hi supermarkets, this is
#OURPLASTICFEEDBACK
!
#WarOnPlastic
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Basic kit for reduced plastic life: refillable water bottle, keep cup, and shopping bags plus reusable containers. It’s the future!
#WarOnPlastic
#PlasticPollution
#plastic
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Don't leave home without one! And if you haven't got a
#refill
bottle yet then there's no better time than today,
#NationalRefillDay
. Great work
@refill
, 10M plastic bottles saved & counting!
Have you
#GotTheBottle
to help prevent plastic pollution?
#WarOnPlastic
.🚰
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Congratulations
@Tesco
on getting rid of those ridiculous
#multipack
#plastic
wraps. Who’s next for this no brainer?
@sainsburys
@asda
@Morrisons
@coopuk
@waitrose
@marksandspencer
@IcelandFoods
@AldiUK
@LidlGB
?
#WarOnPlastic
@itsanitarani
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This a shocking and very important article by
@GeorgeMonbiot
. Climate activists are being sent to jail without a chance to defend their actions. We must find ways to support them!
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Big question: is lockdown helping wildlife to thrive this year, or am I just paying more attention and noticing the stunning flowers and insects all around me? Either way it’s life-changing. We have to take better care of this stuff. It’s what takes care of us.
#30dayswild
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Look at how much plastic tat there is in these kids mags! Does anyone else find this alarming? Where is it all going to end up?! You’d think that CBeebies at least might know better. Being Blue Planet's little baby cousin...
#PointlessPlastics
#SayNoToSingleUse
#WasteNot
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Er, did Boris really fly to Cornwall to talk about climate change?!
@BorisJohnson
#G7Cornwall
#G7
#climatechange
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I’m on the train to London to join
@ChrisGPackham
and co at the
#RestoreNatureNow
rally at
@defragovuk
HQ (Great Peter St) as this govt is abjectly failing to protect nature in our land/rivers/seas. links 👇🏼to find out more - join us if you possibly can!
Nature crisis: One in six species at risk of extinction in Great Britain
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Well I knew it was going to be chilly this morning...but I wasn’t quite prepared for my first ever ICE SWIM!! What a way to start the year!
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#WildIsles
, wow! Stunning footage of amazing UK wildlife. A few refs to declining numbers and habitats and a plea from SDA for nature restoration. But how has our biodiversity crisis happened - 70 yrs of chemical farming, and a decade of anti-nature govt? Time for change!
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There are actually some decent pledges on
#climate
and
#environment
across the different party manifestos, but it’s worth noting they are all policies
@TheGreenParty
have been proposing for years. That’s why we need more Green MPs!
#ClimateDebate
#GE2019
#ClimateEmergency
🌎
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Hey
@GordonRamsay
. It’s your old mate Hugh here. Apparently they are giving these away at
@HeathrowAirport
right now. Surely that’s the wrong direction of travel. You know they have over 100 water fountains there now?
#WarOnPlastic
#refill
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Today
@BorisJohnson
is making a pledge to conserve UK nature yet his new
#FisheriesBill
has no duty to make fishing sustainable.
@GreenpeaceUK
is dropping a boulder with my name on it on the Dogger Bank which will do more for marine protection than his bill.
#LeadersPledge4Nature
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Next time you’re on the road, take your re-usable water bottle into petrol stations and ask for a refill, and if you find a
@Shell
@BP_plc
station that is trialling this, then let me know!
#WarOnPlastic
#PlasticPollution
#RefillOnTheRoad
@Refill
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I’m really enjoying all the
@Wimbledon
action but wouldn’t it be refreshing to see a player turn up on the centre court with their own refillable water bottle? And give us a break from the relentless
@evianwater
plastic bottles. 💦🎾
@Refill
#Wimbledon2021
#plastic
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Having a great time at the
#Edinburgh
Festival, but it’s a
#plastic
nightmare, with most bars and venues insisting on plastic for all drinks (except cans). I get the wish to avoid broken glass, but SO MUCH PLASTIC. Anyone here found a good solution?
#WarOnPlastic
#edfringe2019
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Dear
@michaelgove
@grantshapps
, it's time to lift the
#onshorewind
ban in England - it has the power to address
#climatechange
, help the UK meet its net zero targets, and give us all greener, cheaper electricity. And it’s not just me that thinks so. ⬇️ ✍🏼
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This shocking story shows that
@10DowningStreet
has not delivered on promises made to me in BBC
#WarOnPlastic
by
@michaelgove
, environment minister at the time, to stop dumping UK
#plastic
waste on other countries.
@DefraGovUK
what’s your plan?
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But it’s still single use...so carrying your own refillable water bottle for FREE tap water would be 100 per cent smarter!
@Refill
#waronplastic
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Together, for the health of our planet and all the wonderful life it supports, and for the quality of our own lives and our children's lives, we need to end the
#plastic
nightmare.
#WarOnPlastic
#PlasticPollution
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I haven’t always seen eye to eye with
@jayrayner1
on poultry welfare. But totally agree- the “no brainer” is keeping American mass/produced chicken - cruelly farmed & chlorine rinsed - out of the UK. One of many potential food perils of post Brexit Britain.
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.
@michaelgove
never mind the marching powders Michael, how about some Class A policies on plastic. Sort our bust recycling, give us a deposit return scheme on ALL plastic bottles and make the polluter pay 100% under new Extended Producer Responsibility legislation
#WarOnPlastic
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Following
#BritainsFatFight
I'm pleased to say that
@jeremy_hunt
and I met for a very productive talk about
#obesity
. Stay tuned for more over the coming weeks!
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What a fine example of speaking truth to power
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I’m here for my son and goddaughter and a million young people who couldn’t vote then but can now. Don’t deny them a say in their future.
#PutItToThePeople
#peoplesvote
#peoplesvotemarch
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Gary Rhodes was an amazing chef and led the charge for British cooking. Eating at the Greenhouse when he was in the kitchen in the nineties was a life-changing experience for me and many other chefs, and his TV shows inspired millions. We salute you, Gary, and we’ll miss you.
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Of all the environmental issues, soil is one of the most misunderstood and the most neglected. This is a huge problem, given its vital importance - for food security, safe water supply, carbon storage and indeed for all life on earth!🌱🌎 (1/3)
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.
@MichaelGove
agrees that this situation is horrendous, but what is he actually doing about it?! How about: sort our recycling, a deposit return scheme on ALL
#plasticbottles
& make the polluter pay 100% under new Extended Producer Responsibility legislation.
#WarOnPlastic
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Oh come on please! When will this government face up to the fact that we have a climate crisis and a nature crisis and actually give us the policies that can make a difference?
@DefraGovUK
Seemingly ambitious Defra hedgerow targets actually due to typo
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4/4 We are desperate to find him and if you have seen anything at all that could help us please call 101 and quote the case number 15:644. I’m also posting the appeal from the local news website with a picture of Nick.
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YES
@itsanitarani
! It’s time that our Supermarkets did something bold & gave us a chance to shop WITHOUT single use plastic! We know that it can be done, there are plenty of shops, greengrocers and even some supermarkets giving it a go, so what are we waiting for?!
#WarOnPlastic
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Two problems: runaway climate change, a mass of species extinctions. One solution: restoring ecosystems. It's really that simple. Simple doesn’t mean easy – but we have to do this. Our survival depends on it.
#naturalclimatesolutions
#theforgottensolution
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If you want to hear how we solve the
#ClimateCrisis
, and whether this government is up to the job, then don’t miss this. And what a great pleasure it’s been to work alongside the awesome
@maryportas
and the brilliant
@Kevin_McCloud
🙏🏼🌍
We could stop climate change – and the solutions to it could benefit us all.
Tune in tonight at 9.15pm to watch The Great Climate Fight on Channel 4.
#ClimateFight
#ChangeClimate
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@ExtinctionR
are not criminals any more than suffragettes were.They operate within the tradition of civil disobedience that has a record of getting stuff done.Calling on us to shun them as criminals is government’s cowardly distraction from actually addressing the climate crisis.
Extinction Rebellion 'criminals' threaten UK's way of life, says Priti Patel
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I don’t want to stop eating
#fish
I want
@michaelgove
to DO something to protect our
#seas
. Getting scallop dredgers and beam trawlers out of our
#Marine
Protected Areas and enforcing the
#discardban
would be a start.
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Tate & Lyle sponsoring Tory Party Conference?! We're in the middle of an
#obesity
crisis, you couldn't make it up! 🙄
#BritainsFatFight
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Getting ready to give evidence on
#ChildhoodObesity
@CommonsHealth
with
@jamieoliver
.
#britainsfatfight
#adenough
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@jamieoliver
So sorry to hear this Jamie. You and your amazingly talented team have achieved so much, boosting healthy eating and higher farm animal welfare standards. All those you’ve trained will go on to make a difference.
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Today is
#EarthDay
and here is a short clip I’ve made. We’ve all got a lot on our minds - C19 is a huge global challenge - but there’s still an even bigger picture out there: our planet, and it’s future. Thinking about that is what Earth Day is for... 💚🌍
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