Orvieto Italy
This morning we went into Orvieto, which sits on a hill. The Etruscans, who were here before the Romans, built on it because of its natural defensive qualities. (At least I think that's how it happened. You can check if I'm right by going to Wikipedia.) Anyway, it's a beautiful old city, whose walls provide wonderful views of the surrounding countryside.
This is the Abbey of Saints Severus and Martyrius, as seen from Orvieto:
Looking west (I think): video
Looking south: video
Scenes of Orvieto:
View from Orvieto 1
Montecchio Italy
I'm staying with friends in Italy, and biked to the ancient town of Montecchio. According to Wikipedia, it is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy"), an assessment I'm ready to agree with. I wandered around the old part of the town, and, as I kept muttering to myself, it was just too cool!
Here's a video: (I have more, but this is all I can upload now)
Montecchio Italy
Green Shores was featured on BBC Radio Scotland's Out Of Doors programme this weekend. Presenter Mark Stephens came along to our Saltmarsh Stock up in September to meet us and the volunteers who joined us on the day.
You can listen to the recording here:
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ld4d
or as podcast, wherever you get your podcasts under ‘Scotland Outdoors’.
#NatureScot #NatureRestorationFund #Volunteers #Podcast
Shinty, Saltmarshes and the Scottish Ploughing Championships
Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart with stories from the great outdoors.BBC
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It’s hard to call this “inspiring” when the reality tells a very different story. The UAE ranks 65th in the global Climate Change Performance Index, rated very low for emissions, renewables, and energy use — while actively increasing oil and gas production. 1)
#UAE #HumanRights #dictatorship #greenwashing
It was great to lead a walk and talk today with the Scottish Wildlife Trust, Fife and Kinross group.
We covered successful saltmarsh restoration sites, new techniques for protecting restoration planting and saw what healthy and eroded saltmarsh looks like. There was even time to visit the Green Shores plant hub where we propagate saltmarsh plants for the next round of restoration planting.
#NatureScot #NatureRestorationFund
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Adam Met, this week's guest editor, combines social science expertise with musical success to catalyze climate action.
Through his Amplify project at Planet Reimagined, Adam shows how artists can mobilize millions for climate action. On AJR’s 2024 tour, over 35,000 fans took real steps — from signing petitions to calling elected officials. Now they're expanding this initiative to include artists from Billie Eilish to Tyler Childers.
As Adam writes, solving climate change isn’t about individual acts alone, but collective action. Together with Planet Reimagined, he's drafted a blueprint for this new philosophy that proposes a new way of embedding collective actions into daily life.
Intrigued? Read on! talkingclimate.ca/p/collective…
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Great ideas here!
"the power of collective civic action to change policy...
sports games, religious contexts, and any number of other places where people show up in large numbers should thoughtfully incorporate – not just offer – opportunities..."
The contour lines of the container it was growing in are still retained when it is lifted out.
#NatureScot #SaltmarshRestoration #Bolboschoenus #conservation
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One of the less glamorous* jobs we do to help restore saltmarsh is wash the minimal plastic polypots we use to grow the cuttings on.
There were plenty to wash after planting nearly 4000 plants earlier in the year.
After washing we can reuse them for the next set of cuttings.
*yes, planting saltmarsh in the mud is glamorous- for a certain value of glamor
#Reuse #SaltmarshRestoration #NatureScot #NatureRestorationFund
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This week, we lost one of the world’s greatest advocates for people and nature.
When I was a child, she was the first scientist I ever saw on screen — a young woman in Africa, working with chimpanzees. Decades later, I met her backstage at the Paris climate talks: still tireless, still hopeful, still reminding us that “only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.”
Even in her final days, Dr. Jane Goodall was urging us not to give up, and now her legacy lives on through the countless voices she inspired — scientists, faith leaders, and citizens alike — to act with courage, lead with kindness, and never lose hope.
The best way to honour her? Do what Jane told us to do: believe that what you do makes a difference — and then do it.
Read more here: talkingclimate.ca/p/jane-gooda…
Jane Goodall's final lesson
Honoring Jane Goodall's life, Pope Leo's first climate address, and finding hope in actionKatharine Hayhoe (Talking Climate)
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At Climate Week NYC, the message was clear: progress is underway. What stood out most to me was the shared spirit of determination and collaboration. While none of us can do this alone, the number of people who are committed to tackling climate together is growing every day.
🌍 Good News: At the UN Climate Summit I had the honour of opening with Johan Rockström and António Guterres, over 100 nations -- including China -- announced new and more ambitious emissions cuts.
⚠️ Not so good news: While the world races ahead on clean energy and climate finance, the U.S. risks higher costs at home and losing global leadership.
💡 What you can do: Check out SHIFT, a new tool from Project Drawdown and Kimberly Nicholas. With just a few clicks, it helps you find your “climate superpower” and take the most impactful actions for change. Check it out: you might be surprised!
Read more here: talkingclimate.ca/p/climate-ac…
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They did great a great job of taking cuttings and potting them on, now we'll have more plants for saltmarsh restoration in Dornoch firth.
#SaltmarshRestoration #Dornoch #NatureScot #plants
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The search for Planet B
6,000 exoplanets, but none like Earth – with guest editor David BakerKatharine Hayhoe (Talking Climate)
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#Saltmarsh #BBCScotland #OutOfDoors #volunteers
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How a single voice can start (or stop) an energy revolution
Fighting "NIMBYism", blocking wind and solar projects, and a pilot charts a sustainable courseKatharine Hayhoe (Talking Climate)
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Swimming in the North Sea
We're in Anstruther, Scotland, hiking the Fife Coastal Path on a trip led by Team Long Run and I took advantage of the opportunity to do a little sea bathing. As Mrs. Bennett says in Pride and Prejudice, "A little sea-bathing will set me up forever!" I couldn't talk Ellen into joining me, and she wanted proof that I actually got in the water, so I took a video.
It's amazing how, before you get in the water, everything--water, air, wind, seems frigid, but once you're wet, everything seems comfortable! All the same, I didn't stay in for long.
Anstruther swim
Dr. Katharine Hayhoe
in reply to Dr. Katharine Hayhoe • • •Climate change falls over 20% behind top global concern in 2025 new Ipsos survey reveals
fsc.orgDebbie Goldsmith 🏳️⚧️♾️🇺🇦 reshared this.
Kevin Russell
in reply to Dr. Katharine Hayhoe • • •Volunteer Japanese firefighters, elite trained firefighters, fighting Canadian Wildfire Catastrophe, say the fire destruction is UNLIKE any fire they've fought.
"We always walk forward fighting fire, a steady kiliometer after kilometre" but constant deep climate heat has made roots kindling dry, "we are going a tenth as fast putting out roots"
Canada has burned, is burning, more than 30 million hectares in 30 months.
Bigger than Scotland, and Ireland combined.
#warning #climate
MidgePhoto
in reply to Dr. Katharine Hayhoe • • •The framing of the problem is sub-optimal, at least for effect, also.
A variety of people are running companies doing things which will, stochastically, kill a few of you, more of your children, many of your grandchildren, perhaps all of their children, and doing so for money.
Others are paid to distract you from saving your descendants.
Tends to make people think there are relatively small corrections available earlier in the process.
Mike Weston
in reply to Dr. Katharine Hayhoe • • •Dr. Katharine Hayhoe
in reply to Mike Weston • • •Mike Weston
in reply to Dr. Katharine Hayhoe • • •I'm sorry that is your experience, and am grateful that it is not mine (well, sometimes judgy, but mostly in the direction I prefer, so harder to notice).
Is it not at least better than the Facebooks, etc. of the world?
Dr. Katharine Hayhoe
in reply to Mike Weston • • •nellie-m
in reply to Dr. Katharine Hayhoe • • •@mweston
That’s so bad 😢
Thank you for hanging in there and still being around for the rest of us 💛
mike805
in reply to Dr. Katharine Hayhoe • • •@mweston How exactly would regulation change social media? Right now regulation is either trying to ban kids from social media, or ban opinions the people in power do not like.
The only regulation that could improve social media would be a guarantee of free speech there, but who in power would do that?
Jonathan Kamens 86 47
in reply to mike805 • • •Mike Weston
in reply to mike805 • • •@mike805 Ban advertising, collection of data about users, algorithms, etc., none of which will ever happen for corporate social media, unless I guess it wasn't free.
Maybe I should get around to actually reading @pluralistic 's book, since there might be more ideas there. #enshittification
six_grandfathers_mountain
in reply to Mike Weston • • •@mweston @mike805 @pluralistic
RE
Ban #advertising, collection of data about users, #algorithms....
Well, that would be nice, but we just gotta find the good in the #enshitification and the #PlatformDecay
Oct 31 2025
#CoryDoctorow joins #StephanieRuhle to discuss his new book, "Enshittification, Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It"
⭕see next post for the 7min VIDEO
six_grandfathers_mountain
in reply to six_grandfathers_mountain • • •@mweston @mike805 @pluralistic
#enshitification and #PlatformDecay
Oct 31 2025
#CoryDoctorow joins #StephanieRuhle to discuss his new book, "Enshittification, Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It"
⭕7min VIDEO #MSNBC
Tofu Musubi
in reply to Dr. Katharine Hayhoe • • •I'm amazed that any survey (except maybe those funded by the oil, gas, and plastics industries) would show decreased concern, even as the evidence is swallowing us. I wonder if maybe people are confusing climate change with one of its symptoms - volatile weather - and think "I don't live on a low-laying coastline, what do I have to worry about?"
FreeBall fights fascism
in reply to Dr. Katharine Hayhoe • • •The fossil industry has known since the 70's of the past century that burning carbon based fuels will heat up our atmosphere. They spent billions - not fighting global warming - but fighting information.
Privately owned media outlets are a problem when they end up concentrated in just a few hands - as it's happening in the US.
As long as politicians and media can be bought, that will not change. When elections are won by the wealthiest candidates, democracy is lost!
Emil J
in reply to Dr. Katharine Hayhoe • • •David Penington
in reply to Dr. Katharine Hayhoe • • •- supporting renewable electricity transition
- supporting coal & gas extraction
- in favor of mining etc far more than the environment
So no major party wants to argue for actual climate action & the Labor Party work very hard to marginalise & discredit the Greens. Greens get 12% primary vote, in our fully preferential/instant running off system & are a substantial Senate bloc.
So there are widespread big forces working to make people not worry about climate.
Of course the kids are worried about it, but that's considered a mental health issue☹️
Toni M.
in reply to Dr. Katharine Hayhoe • • •I feel so ashamed about my country.
And so frightened for the world.
N.B. Brazil is really outstanding.
Jacob Urlich 🌍
in reply to Dr. Katharine Hayhoe • •Nicolas Goñi
in reply to Dr. Katharine Hayhoe • • •Eurobarometer
europa.euBri - for people & planet 💖
in reply to Dr. Katharine Hayhoe • • •this is such an important point! Concern alone does not result in action.
caring + confidence = action
mkj
in reply to Bri - for people & planet 💖 • • •@brichapman And also recognition that individual actions *do* have an impact.
Perhaps not a large one, mind; but non-zero! And even small non-zero values start adding up when you get a lot of them.
Small personal steps might not get us all the way, but they are something that it is in almost anyone's personal power to do without waiting for anyone else to do anything. That alone makes them worthwhile IMO.
michael.kjorling.se/blog/2025/…
@kathhayhoe
Quit saying that individual choices are meaningless
Michael Kjörling (michael.kjorling.se)Bri - for people & planet 💖
in reply to mkj • • •mkj
in reply to Bri - for people & planet 💖 • • •@brichapman Exactly! Or like I note in the blog post: just because we have to go along with *some* doesn't mean we have to go all in with the worst. Even when the choice isn't *all* our own, it's exceedingly rare for one to be in a position where individual choices and actions have *no* impact whatsoever.
Alone, it might not get us all the way. It probably won't, actually. But it's something which is in our individual power to do something with and about.
(I refuse to give up.)
@kathhayhoe
mmby
in reply to Dr. Katharine Hayhoe • • •