A petition calling on universities and professional associations to greatly reduce flying. Tweets by Parke Wilde. academicflyingpetition@gmail.com
Joined October 2015
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9 Nov 2024
Since I am posting here less frequently, you may find Parke Wilde on Bluesky and YouTube.
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It's a marathon in front of us. People who love everybody, listen to scientists, tell the truth, and seek to do good in the world will have much work in front of us, frequently unrewarded at first. We have been preparing. Have a good race. See you on the course!
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Well-planned and strategic initiatives for dramatic carbon reduction are LESS disruptive and kinder to all travelers ... even aviation travelers ... than the current oblivious trajectory.
Just taking one sector, for example, intentional #flyingless strategy is a gentle policy.
As #dana hits Catalonia, after leaving a trail of destruction in Valencia, El Prat is the latest in a list of airports being disrupted by extreme climate events this year, which are fueled by the aviation industry's greed.
We need to act now to bring aviation to the ground.
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31 Oct 2024
Our next event is on Monday, when we'll be joined by a panel of experts to discuss the question "Is attending conferences in real life worth the carbon footprint?"
Join us online at 7.30pm on Monday 4th November
tickettailor.com/events/flig…
ALT Event advert: image of people sitting in a room, superimposed text says, is attending conferences in real life worth the carbon footprint? A discussion about career vs climate action
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1 Nov 2024
Failing to tax #aviation fuel was a missed opportunity in this week's budget - we show in our new infographic that it can be done @_wearepossible @transenv_UK #Budget2024
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28 Oct 2024
While traveling by train and bus to Belize, my daughter Keziah (yellow t-shirt and blue shorts) met the delightful enthusiastic Telugu-language YouTube celebrity @Naanveshanaa, who is a brilliant cross-cultural communicator. This has 400k views in 2 days. youtube.com/watch?v=mKXNZu4f…
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22 Oct 2024
Our friend Parke was filming alongside the High Tide and High Time for Climate Action event on Saturday! Here's our article about the event: xrboston.org/news/coalition-…
21 Oct 2024
At Long Wharf in Boston, on a sunny day in October, we discuss history tourism, sea level rise, and the misleading understatement of CO2 emissions in an official report from Logan Airport across the harbor. A Red Rebel silently passes through the frame. youtu.be/m-pyVyKRgRE?si=B8i1…
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21 Oct 2024
At Long Wharf in Boston, on a sunny day in October, we discuss history tourism, sea level rise, and the misleading understatement of CO2 emissions in an official report from Logan Airport across the harbor. A Red Rebel silently passes through the frame. youtu.be/m-pyVyKRgRE?si=B8i1…
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16 Oct 2024
Mural Celebration. On Sunday October 20th from 2-5pm at the Walgreens parking lot in East Arlington, MA (324 Massachusetts Ave). Please join us for food, drink, a True Story Theater performance, and Songs of Resistance by Music Out Front. Details: xrboston.org/action/xr-arlin…
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14 Oct 2024
Very odd for the government to announce an airport expansion against the recommendation of the Climate Change Committee on a day their industrial strategy claims to have green growth at its heart and boasts about UK decarbonisation assets.publishing.service.go…
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14 Oct 2024
Twitter (X) feels like a once-lively party where friends have left and combative drunk gangs have moved in. Some competitors feel like standing in the corner, not knowing if there is more fun happening on a different floor. Blu*sky does seem promising recently. Say "hi" there?!
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11 Oct 2024
In local tourism, on our street in Massachusetts, we saw the Aurora Borealis last night for the first time ever.
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9 Oct 2024
It was heartwarming to see the community members turning out in support for our court appearance. The MA port authority should not double private jet infrastructure in the midst of a climate emergency whose effects we see around us in the form of more ferocious hurricanes.
9 Oct 2024
Rally held in Concord as climate change protesters arrested at Hanscom Field appear in court boston25news.com/news/local/…
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8 Oct 2024
My office window on Amtrak just now is the Connecticut coastline, while on my way home from business travel in DC.
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8 Oct 2024
I can't resist one more photo, because the day is beautiful and the subject is fascinating. This appears to be wind turbines being prepared for installation offshore. The low-carbon world we fervently wish for is feasible, within what economists call our "option set."
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30 Sep 2024
With just a few lines, high-speed rail could connect a majority of the country without the hassle and high prices of air travel.
Europe has it. Japan has it. China has it.
It’s time we do to.
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28 Sep 2024
One way to define US megaregions.
Together, these 7 regions are 52.8% of the US population.
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30 Sep 2024
Both at work and on his cycling tours, Tim is living now in the better climate-friendly world that we wish for.
29 Sep 2024
First leg of the world's longest commute to work- bus replacement service from Bedford to Hitchin, then a train to London. Couldn't trust Thameslink to get me in tomorrow morning for the 0616 Eurostar to Amsterdam, so heading down tonight and staying in a hostel near the station.
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3 Sep 2024
We are fundraising! Please donate today and help us inspire MORE climate action.
Head to donorbox.org/the-flight-free… to see how your money will be used, and to make your donation.
Live until 30th September.
Thank you!
ALT Image shows birds in the sky on a dark blue and orange background. Text says we are fundraising. Our annual fundraiser is now live. We are raising money to fund another year of campaigning: informing people about the climate impact of aviation, encouraging them to travel without flying, and putting pressure on government and industry to make low carbon travel accessible to all. Visit our website today to make your donation and help us inspire more people to take climate action: flightfree.co.uk
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28 Sep 2024
The replies are stinging with anti-gay hate and climate denial, but I said what I said, and I have no regrets.
23 Sep 2024
For church this week, my message was a bit like the old tale of stone soup. We THINK we do not have much to offer on the climate crisis, but, as we start to tally up what little we have, we find more than we thought.
youtu.be/T9vlQz5-c3I?si=34yk…
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28 Sep 2024
How to get involved in climate action.
Some folks are in climate denial, of course, but many others recognize the looming crisis and yet are immobilized by fear and the difficulty of choosing an approach.
To get in motion, choose a form of climate action that suits you.
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28 Sep 2024
Lacking eager support in the media, these movements seek to make themselves visible and unavoidable.
You may find the tactics strange, but you can see their logic from the limitations of the earlier approaches.
At least we won't be invisible!
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27 Sep 2024
🚨 BREAKING: 2 VAN GOGH PAINTINGS SOUPED HOURS AFTER PHOEBE AND ANNA SENTENCED
🥫 3 Just Stop Oil supporters have thrown soup over 2 of Van Gogh paintings in the 'Poets and Lovers' exhibition at the National Gallery.
➡️ Support people in resistance: chuffed.org/project/support-…
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28 Sep 2024
How should you get involved in climate action?
In whatever way best fits your talents!
Don't let fossil fuel propaganda trick you into wasting your precious energy on intramural criticism of approaches you dislike.
Just do your thing and feel our affection and support!
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