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The UK avoided the need for gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026 thanks to record electricity generation from wind and solar, reveals Carbon Brief analysis.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-record-wind-and-solar-saved-uk-from-gas-imports-worth-1bn-in-march-2026/
Wind generation hit a new record for the month of March on the island of Great Britain, up 38% year-on-year, while solar nearly matched the output of last year’s exceptionally sunny spring.

Analysis: Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026 - Carbon Brief

The UK avoided the need for gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026 thanks to record electricity generation from wind and solar, reveals Carbon Brief analysis.

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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply

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Mr. Funk E. Dude 🍑💨17h ago

Do yourself a favor. Follow the #today tag.

In it you'll find people talking about their lives. How tall their grass is growing. How long its been since they've seen a loved one. How worried they are about their plumbing.

It's where we can remember the joy and sorrow of shared experiences together.

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Neil Brown 22h ago

No, we don't need to make the tent bigger.

We need to make the tent safer.

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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖19h ago

@TimWardCam To be honest, I would’ve preferred the 14kWh in the Tesla battery option rather than juggling with 10.2kWh but there was no way I was buying from Musk.

"The closure of 'tabacs' (small local café-bars in France) contributes to the progression of far-right voting... regardless of immigration, unemployment or other economic indicators...

"Symmetrically, the opening of tabacs is associated with a decline in far-right voting, suggesting that these dynamics are not irreversible.

"No other commercial closure produces a comparable effect. The specificity of tabacs lies in their function as a place of socialisation... The effects are three times stronger in rural communities, where these establishments often constitute the last place of sociability...

"When places of sociability disappear, politics becomes a face-off between atomised individuals and national media narratives."

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Axel 1d ago

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@GeofCox/116312517583535381

I wonder is the same holds true for village pubs in the UK

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Jules she/her 1d ago

This shouldn't still need saying in 2026 but all else being equal women are just as capable of doing anything - coding, understanding maths, running a company, training consistently as an athlete, doing science - as men are and you can't deny that and call yourself a feminist. But you also can't call yourself a feminist if you deny that everything else is not equal and the way society is currently structured women face more barriers to doing these things than men do.

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Pauline von Hellermann 1d ago

#ClimateDiary This really is a wonderful Easter present. Greens leading UK polls!
For those of you not in UK: this is unprecedented, and as little as six months ago pretty unimaginable. Happy Eastear everyone!

#GreenParty #GPEW #UKPolitics

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Hitchin Hackspace 1d ago

Our next #HitchinHackspace weekly open evening is on Easter Monday 6th April. We still hold our open evenings on Bank Holidays.

We will be open from 19:30 until 22:00 to give folks who may be interested in what we do, and what facilities we can provide, a chance to come and have a look round and meet some of our members.
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If you like to create, make or craft things why not pay us a visit?
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