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I wish we could measure everything according to access to, as well as capacity and capability to provide all living creatures with their foodie abundance. #luckyme #foodie #growyourown #lovemyveggies #wellbeing #ilovecooking instagram.com/p/C5sRKbsrRf7x…

@_rebeccamills And even if it was all about carbon, people need to understand the nuances of this x6.. it's mainly caused by **new** infrastructure in and around the urban gardens + when looking at highly carbon intensive commercial crops like tomatoes (greenhouses) it's a very different story!

But of course it's not just about carbon...Most of us would think that community run vege gardens/city farms would have a lower footprint than conventional Ag. In reality they are on average six times the carbon emissions as conventional agriculture - at 0.81kg of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) per serving on average, versus 0.07kg of CO2e - research was in US + Europe bbc.com/future/article…

Here is George Clooney’s response after Trump accused him of being a "Hollywood elite." "Here’s the thing: I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies’ shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store. I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut the bottom of the pants off to make ties so I’d have a tie to go on job interviews. I grew up understanding what it was like to not have health insurance for eight years. So this idea that I’m somehow the “Hollywood elite” and this guy who takes a shit in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable. People in Hollywood, for the most part, are people from the Midwest who moved to Hollywood to have a career. So this idea of “coastal elites” living in a bubble is ridiculous. Who lives in a bigger bubble? He lives in a gold tower and has twelve people in his company. He doesn’t run a corporation of hundreds of thousands of people he employs and takes care of. He ran a company of twelve people! When you direct a film you have seven different unions all wanting different things, you have to find consensus with all of them, and you have to get them moving in the same direction. He’s never had to do any of that kind of stuff. I just look at it and I laugh when I see him say “Hollywood elite.” Hollywood elite? I don’t have a star on Hollywood Boulevard, Donald Trump has a star on Hollywood Boulevard! Fuck you!" - George Clooney actor, philanthropist, humanitarian & activist

I know the devastation here in Aotearoa due to cyclone Gabrielle is horrendous, but the death toll in Turkey stands at 44,000.. 44,000 !& still rising. I struggle to get my head around this and the ongoing pain for the millions affected. You are in my 💚 aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/…

Support Sustainable Transport: The NZ E-bike Rebate - Sign the Petition! chng.it/9gFrx4kB via @Change

Support Sustainable Transport: The NZ E-bike Rebate - Sign the Petition! chng.it/9gFrx4kB via @Change

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Good on the Dutch. Let's start having the conversations at all levels. It all starts with awareness.

Greenwashing and corporate lobbying with $$ needs to stop. Remove Coca-Cola as sponsors of COP27 - Sign the Petition! chng.it/KGVJC9S2 via @Change

This is just so sad. I love football and it is not worth fighting, anger and certainly not loss of life. May they all Rest in Peace. BBC News - Indonesia: More than 174 dead in football stampede bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

I just endorsed the campaign for a #FossilFuelTreaty — calling for a new international mechanism to manage a global just transition. Join me and thousands of others here: fossilfueltreaty.org

Standing up in a packed bus that is crawling through the city-roads blocked with fuel gobbling cars. Gosh how I've missed commuting...NOT! #BackToTheFuture

"DOC said: "We would be concerned if there was an intention to adversely impact the marine reserve - but that is not apparent in the information that has been provided."  How does this contribute to DOCs purpose' Papatūānuku Thrives."? #seriously rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

The answers to out big problems of climate change , injustice, inequality, chemical polution are all here. They are systemic and we allow them to be. BP profits triple to $8.5bn as energy prices soared – business live. #inequality #injustice #systemschange theguardian.com/business/live/…

@AlecTang_ So frustrating!

I share these stats often as part of my sessions, as they demonstrate how far of #equality and #justice we are. #transparency is needed for #systems #change our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/clos… via @actionstation

@francesvnz @AJEnglish @TechFuturesLab It certainly is a glimpse into the future if we do not address our complex systemic issues that fuel dependency is part of quickly!

Investors are still backing fossil fuels, and governments still hand out billions in subsidies for coal, oil and gas - some $11 million every minute. For the health of our societies and planet, we need to quit our addiction to fossil fuels. Now.

Groupthink definition from languages.oup.com/google-diction…

groupthink /ˈɡruːpθɪŋk/ noun: groupthink;  the practice of thinking or making decisions as a group, resulting typically in unchallenged, poor-quality decision-making. "there's always a danger of groupthink when two leaders are so alike". Or 7... reuters.com/world/g7-natio…