Aled Jones
@aledjones_gsi
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Director, Global Sustainability Institute (@GSI_ARU) & Professor of Sustainability @AngliaRuskin. aka Dr Apocalypse! Hon. Actuary. Dad. Views own etc.
Cambridge, UK
Joined March 2011
Trump signs a major bill to give tax breaks to billionaires while removing medical cover for millions and incentives to build renewables. Drill baby, drill cos climate change isn’t happening and the weather is your friend….
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Emergency workers rescue more than 230 people after overnight flooding along the Guadalupe River.
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RT @glo_pro: With the #SpendingReview around the corner, the WG’s main paper argues for ‘Social Investments’ in people’s health, wellbeing….
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RT @glo_pro: Led by @moorehl, we've been working with the @BritishAcademy_ on shaping the UK's Economic Strategy collaborating with academi….
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RT @GSI_ARU: Aled Jones @aledjones_gsi from @AngliaRuskin was on @GMB this morning and BBC Radio Cambridgeshire this morning responding to….
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Plans to fast track planning over the new water reservoirs announced today and I was in the Fens yesterday with @richardgaisford to look at the new location for one of these reservoirs. @GSI_ARU @AngliaRuskin.
The government says it wants to accelerate the construction of two major new reservoirs, warning that the UK's water supplies are under threat. One will be built in Lincolnshire and another in Cambridgeshire. @richardgaisford reports.
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RT @GMB: The government says it wants to accelerate the construction of two major new reservoirs, warning that the UK's water supplies are….
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Have food shortages ever caused riots and political change in the UK? Well it appears likely…
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The University of Cambridge led the study about the rebellion, called the Barbarian Conspiracy.
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RT @gaborgurbacs: Chinese memes on American re-industrialization rolling in. lol the music. 😂
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In case you missed it and want to hear more I have just been talking on our regular Climate Watch slot with @LouiseOnAir on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. This time on AI and whether the hype matches the water and energy footprint. Listen again online:
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Join Louise Hulland on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
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Any tips on how to work out what is real and what is an April Fool’s tomorrow given the state of the world?.
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Water, water everywhere…. But is there enough?
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A new reservoir is set to supply 250,000 new homes, but there are concerns it will not be enough.
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Join us for a conversation between Dara McAnulty and Emma River Roberts, 27th March, 18:30 on the Cambridge campus as part of Earth Month 2025 at ARU. Chaired by @Pol_EcolRajpaul . This event is free and open to the general public. Please register here:
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Join us for a conversation between Dara McAnulty, Emma River-Roberts and Victoria Maguire-Rajpaul to mark the start of Earth Month 2025
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RT @BenGoldsmith: It is impossible to overstate the awfulness of Florida's sugar production industry, which is controlled by just two billi….
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We’ve always gone to war over resources. We’ve just never been quite so open and transparent about it. Are we about to see a new global era of very explicit ‘let us invade and we’ll share the spoils’
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The proposal to give the US access to minerals would also include those from territories taken from Ukraine.
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I remember 20 years ago working with businesses across the UK to champion the opportunities around tackling climate change. The CBI were not as keen then but this report is so important in terms of finding the UK's place in the new global green economy
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Green sector growing at triple the rate of the UK economy, providing high-wage jobs and increasing energy security
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'We left pieces of our life behind': Indigenous group flees drowning island
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Rising sea levels threaten homes in Panama, but not everyone wants to leave.
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Concern UK's AI ambitions could lead to water shortages
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Data centres can use vast quantities of water to cool them - but it's not clear where it will come from.
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Do you want to do a PhD working with the Cambridgeshire Planning Service? Join the @GSI_ARU ! We have a fully funded PhD starting in September looking at how new developments can be designed to support better outcomes. #phdpositions More details here:
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New project to save UK from food shortages gets £2m government backing
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Anglia Ruskin University is leading an initiative to identify vulnerabilities and avoid collapse of the UK's food system
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