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Warwickshire, UK
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Excited to announce Africa Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM) are investing USD 31 million for a minority stake in our Rwanda, Kenya and DRC operations. This will bring #energyaccess to 10 million people in these countries #solarinafrica bit.ly/2SVvIyS
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Why not take some time out of your day to engage with nature? We will be celebrating orchards and local fruits by planting trees on campus and listening to three great speakers on the topic. buff.ly/2QPKMMh
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Feeding a population of 10 billion people by 2050 with a healthy & sustainable diet will be impossible without transforming eating habits, improving food production & reducing food waste—new @EATForum–@TheLancet Commission #EATLancet #foodcanfixit hubs.ly/H0gcll-0
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Ok - this will seem to many like inside baseball but I think it's significant.
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Bibliometrics community leaders resign en masse from editorial roles at J Informetrics in part because Elsevier won't open up citations
#i4oc
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Good piece by @HetanShah on using data in philanthropy. Rather than small-scale evals, isn't it 'better to get civil society together to identify the Qs that need to be answered & then direct academics & others to invest in that research'? acf.org.uk/news/how-much-can… @ACFoundations
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A Better UK Food Policy Requires Better Government
- Brexit has highlighted a fundamental problem with the UK’s governance mechanisms – namely, that policymaking is often trapped within departmental silos too focused on the short term, writes @timgbenton
chathamhouse.org/expert/comm…
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10,000 people plea for new city park on site of wholesale market
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Park Petition will be submitted to @BrumLeader Deadline: 12th January Target: 10,000. If you want #Smithfield developer to include signature park, sign NOW via goo.gl/pkSkmX – at Birmingham, England
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#AirQuality Forecasts by @CopernicusECMWF Atmosphere Monitoring Service
Nitrogen dioxide levels expected for tomorrow 4 January across Europe
Usual suspects: 🇬🇧London and Midlands, 🇳🇱Holland, 🇧🇪Belgium and 🇩🇪Ruhr/Rhine Valley, 🇫🇷Paris, 🇪🇸Madrid, 🇮🇹Po Valley and Northern Italy
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MASSIVE CALL TO ACTION!
If YOU see this tweet, PLEASE SIGN & RT UK petition to HELP create a PUBLIC PARK in the centre of Birmingham!
Goal: 10,000 signatures
Deadline: 12th January 2019
Together, we CAN do this! 😊👇
change.org/p/birmingham-city…
Andrew Mackenzie retweeted
One of the biggest challenges of 2019: understanding the rise of #populism, #antisystem and #antiEuropean voting and tackling the roots of the problem head on.
This is the place to start.
New open access paper with @DijkstraLewis and Hugo Poelman.
ec.europa.eu/regional_policy…
#EP2019
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Transport emissions have taken a wrong turn. Tomorrow the European Commission needs to show how it’ll tackle this when it publishes the EU’s plan to decarbonise by 2050. Here is T&E’s roadmap to #DecarbonisingTransport in #EU2050... [THREAD] 1/6
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Air pollution from road emissions cost the EU €45 billion in health impacts in 2016, a new study commissioned by health groups estimates epha.org/ce-delft-health-imp…
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Targeted Advertising Is Ruining the Internet and Breaking the World - Surveillance capitalism and targeted advertising have become the norm on the internet, and it's hurting all of us motherboard.vice.com/en_us/a…
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First hasty, experimental episode up shortly. We just needed to find a way to get the story out...it's a work in progress (hopefully). Follow @DialMueller for updates dialmformueller.com for details & read this @nybooks article on why it's so important
nybooks.com/daily/2018/11/16…
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This is why Arron Banks calls me crazy, loony, criminal, a thief. Why Andrew Neil backs him up. He is desperate to shift attention from this story. And the BBC has failen for it. Please don't do the same. Journalism is not enough. Britain needs a Mueller. dialmformueller.com
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"Alston is saying what the mainstream media, think-tanks, politicians and officials have – with rare exceptions – failed to say since 2008. He is telling this truth: austerity and poverty are among the most important human rights issues of our time." bit.ly/2TcXaZr
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“You feel all this knowledge would be useful for something, for trying to change something.”
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What Brexit tells us about the British Professor Danny Dorling: youtu.be/HLsTaFNhC_o?a via @YouTube