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on May 14, 2017

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Some things that have come to my attention this week.

News

Newly elected Labour mayor Andy Burnham has announced he is giving away 15% of his £110,000 salary to help start a fund to tackle homelessness in Manchester. Imagine a Tory doing that.

Here in my own constituency, the Liberal Democrat candidate has announced he will take no part in campaigning for the seat, encouraging us all to vote Labour instead. (Over on twitter, #NuttallOut is living its life as only a hashtag can do).

The Guardian reports that British embarrassment over asking for tap water in bars fuels plastic bottle waste. No comment.

Science Alert informs us that The UK Just Switched On a Huge Fusion Reactor - And It Works. Sort of.
And an unidentified giant sea creature washes up in Indonesia.

Interesting Things

Shedding Light on the Suffering of Animals in Captivity at Feature Shoot.

This solar panel produces up to 5 litres of drinking water per day from the air at Treehugger.

Digital Nomads and Community in the Modern Age at ecovillage.org

Rob Greenfield is an American person who decided he would wear all of his "trash" for 30 days, and make a documentary about it.

How a Climate Change Denier Discovered the Lies and Decided to Fight for Science at Climate Change Psychology
Libertarian Tempests: Georges Hénein, Ramsès Younane, and the surrealist movement in Egypt (1937-1963) by Ronald Creagh at The Anarchist Library

Blogs

Happier, Sustainable, Less Skint
Ragid Robin's Nature Notes
The Great Change
Cassandra's Legacy
22 Billion Energy Slaves

Music

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