@tomackers.bsky.social
https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/decarbonising-the-built-environment/
political-economy-ecology / built environment / energy / homes / concrete / forests / philosophy /
postdoc Uniarts Helsinki
https://orcid.org/0009-0004-9088-984X
@tomackers.bsky.socialCould be
@tomackers.bsky.socialRichard Erskine @richarderskine.bsky.social
on electrification & the primary energy fallacy.
Heat pumps, EVs etc are so much more efficient than fossil fuels in delivering energy in a useful form.
(but also: insulate homes, to keep the thermal energy where you want it.)
@tomackers.bsky.socialRIP Alan Thornett
Good tribute here 👇
‘His most repeated line was that “nothing can be built on a dead planet”… The point he pressed hardest was the one he had made against Healy in 1974: a movement that cannot force change under capitalism cannot overthrow it.’
@tomackers.bsky.socialfrom
@weplanetint.bsky.social @marklynas.bsky.social
@lalehkhalili.bsky.socialReposted by @tomackers.bsky.socialIt is amazing that the right wing press were salivating over an Oxford prof getting caught w paedophilic images, and then as soon as they figured that she is Michael Gove's (ex) girlfriend, they all memory holes their articles about her.
@tomackers.bsky.social@tomackers.bsky.social@tomackers.bsky.social@tomackers.bsky.social@tomackers.bsky.socialReposted by @tomackers.bsky.social☝️ malign proposals to change international LULUCF accounting standards.
Highly relevant for the political economy of sustainable construction,
using timber instead of concrete, steel etc.
Forest conservation & restoration.
@kevinclimate.bsky.social wonder if you have thoughts?
@thelancet.comReposted by @tomackers.bsky.socialWhat will shape the health of the next generation?
A new Lancet Commission outlines 17 interlinked catastrophic threats to health and human survival between 2025 and 2100: tinyurl.com/342wzbj5 #21stCenturyThreatsToHealth @ihmeuw.bsky.social @unfpa.org
@tomackers.bsky.social@tomackers.bsky.social@tomackers.bsky.social@tomackers.bsky.socialre housing-based climate policy in the UK:
“we show that the public consistently favours large-scale public investments over household grants and broad coverage over targeted interventions…”
@fgenovese.bsky.social
v interested to read this!
@tomackers.bsky.socialInteresting discussion w Roger Hallam @rogerhallam.com
about new @4billiondead.bsky.social campaign.
@tomackers.bsky.socialReposted by @tomackers.bsky.social🌲🌲 Circling back to this:
Must-read NYT article by @mikegrunwald.bsky.social
about some truly dire proposals for changing the international forest carbon-accounting rules.
Technical & boring-sounding 🙈
Profoundly important 👇👇
@70sbachchan.bsky.socialReposted by @tomackers.bsky.social"A Bolsonaro win — aided by Trump and Big Tech billionaires — will be the likely end of the Amazon, the lungs of the earth. If you have young kids, you are watching them get locked into an extremely dangerous future. You’re not mad enough at the fascists and their collaborators." -@AaronRegunberg
@tomackers.bsky.socialvery illuminating thread, nested threads, links, analysis on the far-rightward move in Brazil’s elections.
@tomackers.bsky.socialRe current (2026) bad proposals to change international forest carbon-accounting rules.
- malign incentives structures around timber products: would encourage needless over-use, less recycling.