You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller
Kerry, Ireland
Joined February 2019
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Anne-Marie Fuller retweeted
📢New Publication! "The dark side of artificial greening: Plastic turfs as widespread pollutants of aquatic environments"🌿
We have found that artificial turf fibers account for up to 15% of the meso- and macroplastics in rivers and sea surface waters!
doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.202…
Anne-Marie Fuller retweeted
Have you ever wondered how Ireland can have gone from 500 pristine rivers in the 1980s down to only 20?
Here's your explanation: polluters making the rules on pollution.
Anne-Marie Fuller retweeted
Join us Monday 10th July @ 7pmfor our free webinar briefing on the Nature Restoration Law.
Two days before the important nature restoration law plenary vote in the European parliament, we discuss the current proposal.
Registration link: eventbrite.ie/e/young-greens…
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Anne-Marie Fuller retweeted
Good news: Ireland calls for a halt to #DeepSeaMining until more scientific knowledge is collected and strong regulations are in place to ensure the protection of the marine environment.
Ireland has today joined calls for a precautionary pause of deep-sea mining on the international seabed.
Read more: dfa.ie/news-and-media/press-…
Anne-Marie Fuller retweeted
Big Oil raked in record-breaking profits. The companies that caused the climate crisis are getting rich as they fuel the fire.
@ExxonMobil: $55.7 billion
@Shell: $39.87 billion
@Chevron: $35.5 billion
@BP_plc: $27.7 billion
Time to make the pay for the damage they've caused.
Anne-Marie Fuller retweeted
Jackie Cahill (FF) is chair of the Agriculture Committee, here chairing a session on water quality & the Nitrates derogation. He's also a dairy farmer in derogation & opened the session saying it's "hugely important to my own business"
Surely this is a gross conflict of interest?
Anne-Marie Fuller retweeted
Wouldn't it be amazing to have a thriving ocean, full of marine life, that supports low impact fisheries, stable jobs, tourism and local communities?
You can lead us there
Vote in favour of the NRL
@MariaWalshEU @SeanKellyMEP @DeirdreCluneMEP @ColmMarkey
Anne-Marie Fuller retweeted
This is juvenile. The leadership of the EPP in the European Parliament has lost its way
They have allied with the far right and now they are spreading disinformation about the Nature Restoration Law
I'm working to convince their MEPs to vote with their conscience #RestoreNature
"Mr Timmermans, don't kick Santa out of his house," says @petrisarvamaa.
The #NatureRestoration Law has good intentions but bad design.
For example, it would turn the entire city of Rovaniemi into a forest and other nature areas.
Withdraw the #NatureRestoration bill!
Anne-Marie Fuller retweeted
We launched #SolarforBusiness on the rooftop of @onthebackpage in Phibsborough. It's a massive expansion of our non-domestic scheme for businesses, community orgs, sports clubs & public buildings.
Grant covers up to 30% of costs with payback in as little as 5 years ☀️
@SEAI_ie
Anne-Marie Fuller retweeted
Poignant as fuck 🩰👣😭
From a friend at the Roskilde festival:
“where Denmark’s most famous ballerina got up on stage and performed the dance of the dying swan, while slowly being covered with crude oil
😭 genuinely devastating”
#ballet #oil #art #JustStopOil #selfProtest
Anne-Marie Fuller retweeted
Yellow warning issued for Cork, Kerry, Galway, Mayo for heavy rainfall tomorrow with over 40mm possible in parts of Southwest and West, especially on higher ground but over 10mm for most areas. A very wet and windy spell of weather Thursday.
Anne-Marie Fuller retweeted
On a lecture tour of Ireland, Dublin-Ballina-Cork-Dublin. Train from the Peak District, ferry from Holyhead, then ~100mile-days around the Emerald Isle powered by legs & a bike (barring mechanicals/mishaps). Weather looks v.Irish, but the ‘crack’ should be good.
Anne-Marie Fuller retweeted
Happy, as always, to contribute to this discussion about the benefits of removing VRT & VAT on used electric car imports from the UK
It is really the only feasible way to aid electric car adoption for the majority who cannot afford a new EV
irishexaminer.com/news/arid-…
#ClimateCrisis
Government target of 950,000 EVs by 2030 branded 'nonsensical' irishexaminer.com/news/arid-…
Anne-Marie Fuller retweeted
Good news! The EU Commission today announced the first ever Soil Health Law 🌿
A binding measure to stop soil degradation was a key ask of the Environment Action Programme I negotiated earlier this term. We will now protect soil in the same way we do air and water quality 🌊
Anne-Marie Fuller retweeted
Press Release📢Water users urged to take precautions due to outbreak of Crayfish Plague in the Munster Blackwater catchment bit.ly/3pzxRWu
NPWS and IFI urge all users of any river to implement the Check, Clean & Dry protocol #CheckCleanDryIrl
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Anne-Marie Fuller retweeted
Minister @noonan_malcolm has announced more than €290,000 in funding for 24 local community groups and organisations to support a variety of local projects across Ireland under the Peatlands Community Engagement Scheme 2023. #Climate
Learn more: bit.ly/43e0K8r
Anne-Marie Fuller retweeted
Beef emits 31 times more CO₂ per calorie of food than tofu does. By cooking so many cows, we are cooking ourselves, too. Forgoing steaks may be one of the most efficient ways to reduce our carbon footprint econ.st/44aAMn0
Anne-Marie Fuller retweeted
The leading scientific body on nature conservation, @IUCN, said the EU's global role in protecting the environment will be called into question should the Nature Restoration Law be rejected next week
@ColmMarkey @SeanKellyMEP
@MariaWalshEU @BillyKelleherEU
iucn.org/iucn-statement/2023…
Anne-Marie Fuller retweeted
'Risks of synchronized low yields are underestimated in climate and crop model projections' our new paper in @NatureComms.
We find model biases in #ExtremeHeat linked to large waves in the #Jetstream, a major driver of recent record breaking #HeatWaves.
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
ALT An illustration of the Jetstream and how it affects warm and cold anomalies over major crop producing regions
Nature needs your help today! The European Parliament will vote on an EU law to restore nature, but some MEPs want to block this law. Please send them an email now and ask them to take their responsibility. act.greens-efa.eu/restore-na…