Tom Youngman

Co-founder of Green Vision: The Bath Youth Climate Movement, member of the Department for Energy and Climate Change's Youth Advisory Panel and member of the UK Youth Climate Coalition's delegation to the United Nations climate change negotiations. Human being and active citizen. thomas@youngman.me.uk.

If you love bicycles, banter and being facetious towards stupid policing, you’d better watch.

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I hate the assumption that bikes belong in bike lanes, where it is arguably much more dangerous. This guy got stung in NY, so he made a little movie. 5 days later it has nearly 3 million views. 

Tags: #cycling #USA

We’ve heard the USA say that not only will I not tell you my policies and measures … I’d like to reopen all of the issues we’ve have settled now for ten years plus. Negotiator for St. Lucia paraphrases the USA’s statement at the UN climate talks in Bonn.
Tags: #unfccc #climate change #USA

There is a Greek proverb I wish every elected federal and state official would recite before starting any talks about our energy policies and challenges: “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Fantastic article by  LZ Granderson on America’s short-sighted energy policy, and how Democrats are playing up to Republican spin rather than fighting it. 

(America, get real about the high cost of cheap gas - CNN.com)

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Tags: #climate change #Environment #USA

We’ve fallen behind on what is going to be the key to our future. Barack Obama on renewable energy
Tags: #environmentalism #Renewable Energy #politics #USA #Environment

Trailer for ‘Carbon Nation’. The new American ‘environmentalism is patriotic’ movement interests me a little, and while I’m sceptical about whether they’ve got the right idea, it seems to be working so far. Clip includes the great quote: “green is the new red, white and blue”.

Tags: #environmentalism #film #USA #Environment

That’s what this bill would do. It would “repeal” (yes, the bill really says “repeal”) a scientific determination by the US EPA that carbon dioxide and other “greenhouse gas” pollutants are a threat to human health and welfare. Interesting concept: EPA scientists, after studying the work of thousands of other scientists, conclude that global warming pollution threatens our health and welfare. And Congress responds, “no it doesn’t and we have the votes to prove it!

Dave Hawkins (on the NRDC staff blog) on the ludicrously titled ‘Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011’, going through Congress in America at moment, seeking to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from taking steps to limit industrial carbon emissions.

(via good.is)

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Tags: #environmentalism #politics #USA #Environment

I’ve never really been attracted to Los Angeles before now.

HD Twilight Landing At LAX (Cockpit View) (via surfbumhnl)

Tags: #USA #film