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Believer in the optimistic future. Creating social movements to help power it.

London, Great Britain
Joined February 2009
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🔥🌍📈BREAKING @NASA 📈🌍🔥 The Earth's Energy Imbalance from NASA satellite data reached 1.97 W/m² (12-month mean)!! I called this the most important graph in the world. This helps to explain all the records currently being broken around the word! 1/
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BREAKING: I must bring you the sad news that Priti Patel has spontaneously combusted after hearing leftie activist lawyers have grounded the first Rwanda flight 😭
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I’m pretty mortified by the sudden commercialisation of #EarthDay. Brands from fashion to restaurants have filled email inboxes and deployed all sorts of other tactics to encourage consumerism. Frankly it’s more than uncomfortable… here’s a better approach
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This beautiful talented child singing like an angel in the horror of a bomb shelter in #Ukraine made my #InternationalWomensDay
COP26 "is a once in a lifetime reset, an opportunity we cannot let pass by". Listen to friend of #COP26 and Kenyan environmentalist, @MathaiWanjira, talk about how climate change is impacting Africa & the need to take climate action now 👇🏿 #COP26Ambition #TogetherForOurPlanet
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We Don't Have Time is probably the essential state of affairs of humanity today", says @JeffDSachs from @CSD_Columbia. #EarthDay #WeDontHaveTime
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A global #quarantine is a first in human history. How will we live through and emerge from this? @CFigueres and @TomCarnac will be LIVE on Monday sharing #ideas and #hope from their homes to yours #TheFutureWeChoose #StubbornOptimists #Covid19
We're going LIVE on Twitter this Monday for a talk about how we're weathering this challenging time, and what gives us hope. Watch to learn more from @CFigueres and @TomCarnac!
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Replying to @BerniceWLee
@BerniceWLee and I enjoying #TheFutureWeChoose posters in Shoreditch. Stark choice. Right book, right time. Well done @CFigueres @tomcarnac
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Join @JahaENDFGM on International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM in a campaign to #EndFGM, a form of gender-based violence causing lifelong health issues for 200m women worldwide. Prevent 50m girls at risk of #FGM from harm. Share or donate at bit.ly/2GYlCsq #TheNewNow
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Jakarta floods: 'Not ordinary rain', say officials bbc.in/35fOKFp
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The impacts of #ClimateChange don’t recognise borders. Every country suffers, the poorest the most. Leaders must leave the UN this week with ambition to #ActNow #UniteBehindTheScience and deliver increased efforts to radically cut GHG emissions. #TheNewNow #ClimateCrisis
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🌊#IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate Our Ocean and Cryosphere - They sustain us. They are under pressure. Their changes affect all our lives. The time for action is now. #SROCC PR ➡️ buff.ly/2lrzCnF SPM ➡️ buff.ly/2l3f7xl
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Nature is angry - and we foool ourselves if we think we can fool nature. Our Earth is issuing a cry: "STOP". The climate crisis is caused by us, and the solutions must come from us -@UN Chief @antonioguterres at #ClimateActionSummit on the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions
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At #UNGA Namati & the Global Legal Empowerment Network are committing $45 million over 5 yrs to foster & deepen legal empowerment across the 🌍 to achieve #Justiceforall. “Now we’re passing the mic to govts to do their part.” -@VivekHMaru STATEMENT: namati.org/news/namatis-acce…
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Watch the ‘#UnitedVoices of Peace’ event – streamed live on @_thenewnow Facebook page at 10:30am EST. Featuring Mary Robinson of @TheElders, @katie_eder of @futurecoalition, @wiiiiza of @haka_sumatra and @kuminaidoo of @amnesty virg.in/i59 #ClimateActionWeek
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Next up @JahaENDFGM, @RoyaMahboob and @Eric_McGriff will be discussing Women, Technology & Culture Change: Ending Violence and Discrimination. Join the conversation NOW: bit.ly/TheNewNow #TheNewNow
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“The best policy lever we have is the streets – it is activism” – @kuminaidoo, Secretary-General, @Amnesty International Watch now: facebook.com/TheNewNow #TheNewNow
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Our #TheNewNow leaders, @JahaENDFGM, founder of @SafeHands4Girls, and @RoyaMahboob, founder of @DigitalCitizenF discuss Women, Technology & Culture Change: facebook.com/TheNewNow #UnitedVoices
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