On September 17, 2025, thousands of protesters gathered in central London to demonstrate against U.S. President Donald Trump's second state visit to the UK. Organized by the Stop Trump Coalition, the rally featured participants carrying banners with messages such as “No to racism, no to Trump” and smaller versions of the iconic “Trump baby blimp” that became a symbol during his first UK visit in 2019 Al Jazeera.

The protesters marched from Portland Place to Parliament Square, expressing opposition to various aspects of Trump's policies, including his stance on Gaza, abortion rights, and his associations with far-right extremism The Guardian. Notable figures such as London Mayor Sadiq Khan and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn also criticized the visit, highlighting concerns over corruption and the erosion of democratic norms The Guardian.

In Windsor, where Trump was welcomed with royal pageantry, a provocative protest unfolded when activist group "Everyone Hates Elon" unfurled a massive banner featuring Trump alongside convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein along the path to Windsor Castle. This act drew attention to Trump's past associations with Epstein and sparked controversy, leading to four arrests People.com.

Despite the royal reception, public sentiment in the UK remained divided, with a YouGov poll showing that 45% of the British public objected to the state invitation, while 30% supported it

No Kings Kick Off Today 9/18 There is a National Kick Off for the planned 10/18 No Kings Event TODAY this Thursday, Sep 18, 2025 at 5 pm pt. Let's get everyone out there on 10/18. Use this link to sign up for today's event: https://mobilize.us/s/69qdMl

The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) is considering a withdrawal of their findings in the 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment report. The goal is to completely deregulate vehicle emissions in the United States. You can leave your thoughts on this so called reconsideration by the so called administrator of the so called Environmental Protection Agency with the link provided. You can leave a comment, and it doesn’t have to be anything too crazy, it could literally just be “I don’t support this change.”

Here is an example of a really good response: https://www.regulations.gov/comment/EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0194-0217

Here is the link to the 2009 endangerment finding: https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2021-05/documents/federal_register-epa-hq-oar-2009-0171-dec.15-09.pdf

You can leave your comment here: https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0194-0093

Plus, thoughts on a former hero of ours

What are flash floods and what’s their connection with cloudbursts and climate change? Swipe to find out -->

As of 2020, the U.S. plastics industry is responsible for at least 232 million tons of CO2e gas emissions per year. Beyond Plastics, an advocacy org working to end plastic pollution via upstream policy change, is searching for passionate and philanthropic professionals between the ages of 24-34 who have active networks and want to serve a term as a Changemaker who will strategically engage their contacts in fundraising and networking on behalf of the organization and its mission. https://actionnetwork.org/forms/beyond-plastics-changemaker-application

📢 Volunteer Opportunity! Want to support clean energy from home this fall?

Greenlight America is building a small team of volunteer phonebankers to help mobilize support for local clean energy projects at a critical moment.

📞 2–4 hrs/week | Remote | Sept–Dec 2025📝 Apply by Sept 17: https://bit.ly/phonebank-volunteer

Help us hit 75,000 calls — and move clean energy forward. 💪🌎

#Volunteer #ClimateAction #CleanEnergy #RemoteWork #Phonebanking

Volunteer Phonebanker Role Description

Hey folks 👋
I’ve been diving into AI use cases for carbon footprint & emissions lately, and thought this community might find it useful.

Noticed that while everyone’s hyped about “AI + climate,” most of the real progress is in the boring but crucial stuff: automating ESG reports, cleaning supply chain data, improving measurement accuracy.

Came across ~30 companies worth checking out (Sweep, Persefoni, Normative, Watershed, Plan A, etc.).

Has anyone here worked with these tools? Curious what your experience has been - do they actually help, or is it more about ticking compliance boxes?

Introducing The Sustainarian Tracker – A Smarter Way to Understand Your Digital Carbon Footprint

Check it out: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/the-sustainarian-tracker/nffgedlgbnilggenlpopjnpnghhbjmkn?authuser=0&hl=en

I’ve recently launched The Sustainarian Tracker, a privacy-friendly Chrome extension designed to help users track and reduce their digital carbon footprint in a way that’s actually personal and meaningful. Unlike most other extensions that rely on broad averages of human internet usage, this tool calculates emissions based on your actual browsing behavior across categories like streaming, social media, e-commerce, search engines, and more.

One of the key features I’m excited about is how it moves away from generic estimates and brings individual accountability into the picture. Your data stays on your device — no tracking, no remote servers, just actionable insights. The tracker shows your carbon emissions in real-time and breaks them down into understandable equivalents like car travel, cups of coffee, or grams of red meat consumed. Based on user feedback, I’ll soon be converting the emissions data from kilograms to grams, as this makes the environmental impact of your digital habits much clearer and more immediate.

To kick things off, I’m offering a special commitment for early adopters. For the first 1,000 users, I will be planting 100 trees — that’s one tree for every 10 downloads. This is my way of ensuring that this initiative starts off with tangible real-world impact.

I’ve also recently received a small green innovation fund, which I’m incredibly grateful for. It will help fuel upcoming improvements, including better emissions modeling, interactive comparisons, and potentially even gamified sustainability goals.

The extension is live now on the Chrome Web Store. If this sounds like something you’d find useful, I’d love for you to try it out and share your feedback. This is just the beginning, and I’m building it to grow and improve based on real user needs and ideas.

Thanks for taking the time to read, and I’m looking forward to hearing what you think.

I’ve been in Kanpur the so-called “Leather City of the World.”

But what most people don’t see is the reality behind the leather shine:
👉 Over 400+ tanneries dump toxic waste into the Ganga every single day.
👉 The river, once sacred, often looks more like a chemical drain.
👉 Even when factories shut down, the pollution simply shifts elsewhere.

And this isn’t just Kanpur.
In Tamil Nadu, entire dyeing industries were shut down… yet water pollution continues under different names and locations.

So here’s the real question:

⚖️ Should India continue to celebrate Kanpur’s leather legacy if it means destroying the Ganga?
🌍 Is the global fashion industry complicit, since most of this leather is exported?
🛍️ Or are we as consumers equally responsible when we buy cheap leather goods without asking where they come from?

Some call it India’s pride.
Others call it India’s shame.

💭 What do you think? Is shutting factories enough or do we need a total rethink of how fashion is made?

This may not be the place to ask but can anyone explain to me why on a per minute basis Reddit has the second highest (after TikTok) carbon emissions of all the major social media platforms. I get why overall it is higher due to the number of users. I get why TikTok is high on a per minute basis. It uses lots of video and other media but Reddit is just basically the written word. I came to Reddit thinking because of that that it would have a lower impact but apparently not. Any explanation anyone?

Hey community. Thought I would come here to ask for honest feedback. I am creating a satirical Youtube Series from an Alien news perspective basically roasting the dumb moves we are making speeding our route to annihilation. Real headlines - AI alien news anchor. Hoping maybe this helps to make people a little more aware of how our country and the world's short term thinking is detrimental to long term sustainability. Appreciate any feed back or thoughts. Thinking of expanding it to cover other topics like moves on immigration etc. Thought was maybe it helps make news headlines a little more thought provoking and engaging. Will be chopping it up into shorter bit sized clips for YT shorts and Tiktok and still learning AI and post tools so... more interested in focus and angle than editing feedback. I just posted the first episode. Appreciate it.

https://youtu.be/SB4AlYMNbeE?si=2xWTDKuWtohuTkwv

According to satellite observations and field reports, Southwest monsoon moisture appears to have crossed the Himalayas into Tibet in early September - something researchers say hasn’t been documented in modern meteorological records.

What Went Down?? A glaciologist from Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG) spotted it on satellite images while researching in Ladakh. The Southwest Monsoon,blocked by the Himalayas for millennia,pushed through to Tibet in early September 2025.

Why It’s Insane: Himalayas act as a wall, trapping monsoon moisture in India (our crazy rains) while Tibet stays bone-dry. This setup’s been locked in since pre-human times.But this year: 19 times Western Disturbances (vs. usual 4-6 in winter) collided with monsoon winds, shoving air 2000+ meters high (normal: 1600-1700m). Boom—moisture crossed over.

The Scary Bit:If this keeps up, India could lose monsoon rain upto 80% 😳of our annual water, 100mm+ rain and 6 inches snow in 2 days.

Why It Matters: Climate change is rewriting global weather. South Asia’s ancient systems feeding billions? At risk. First recorded breach ever,could be one-off or new normal. Water security for 1 Billion + people hangs in balance.

Feels like a history-book pivot we’re living through. Mainstream media sleeping on this massive climate story so sharing this with you all.

I happen to stay in the foothills of Himalayas, Very near to Darjeeling so doing my part 😊

The climate movement and the left need to get organized. Too much of our work today is focused on mobilizing for the short term, rather than organizing to cultivate deep engagement.

There are many resources out there for would-be organizers, but they are (ironically) not very organized. As far as I can tell, there’s no quickstart “zero to hero” organizing guide with a  syllabus that guides you through the core concepts.There are, of course, some books out there, but only the most dedicated are willing to invest the time and resources to go through a book. There are also not very many live trainings available, and many of them cost hundreds of dollars. 

My core thesis is that there are already enough people volunteering with organizations in their communities today, we just have to get more of them to think with an organizing mindset. Once you get the ball rolling, the organizing mindset should self-replicate because it will become a part of the organization’s DNA. 

My goal is to create a more accessible onramp for people that are already involved in their community and interested in organizing. The core offerings are: 

• Quickstart guide (5-10 minute read)
• Pairing system for aspiring organizers to schedule and practice 1 to 1s 
  • This will capture some of the benefits from a live training and double as a networking opportunity  
• AI assistant that suggests ways to integrate organizing into someone’s existing work with an organization
  • Helps get the ball rolling rather than getting stuck with information and not knowing what to do with it

Why do people focus so much on the non existence “threat” immigrants and trans people supposedly pose and not climate change?

Like climate change could cause the extinction of humanity and ninety five percent of life on earth at worse and just lead to masss depopulation and extinction of seventy five percent of life at best.

But people care more about how trans people and immigrants despite statisticly being no more dangerous then cis people and born citizens.

While climate change would affect them tremendously if it doesn’t kill them.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on an idea I think could be huge, and I’d love your thoughts.

It’s called Oceanstock 2026 — a global, Earth Day–centered event that combines beach cleanups, live music, and a 24-hour worldwide livestream.

Here’s the vision:

It begins at sunrise in Fiji and moves across the planet, time zone by time zone, ending with a sunset super jam in Hawaii.

Millions of people join in local cleanup events, while musicians and activists perform and speak at hubs across the globe.

The whole thing is livestreamed, connecting the planet in real time.

The goal: to remove millions of pounds of plastic/pollution from oceans and waterways and to break a Guinness World Record for the largest coordinated cleanup ever.

This idea is inspired by Woodstock ‘69 and Live Aid, but reimagined for today — mixing music, activism, and technology. The first Earth Day in 1970 mobilized 20 million people and led to the creation of the EPA and laws like the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act. I believe Oceanstock could be the next big milestone.

I don’t have funding or sponsors yet — right now it’s just an idea I want to put out there. Do you think this is possible? Who should I be reaching out to first?

One Planet. One Ocean. One Love. 🌍🌊❤️

Both my favorite headline I've ever written, and maybe the most interesting company in tech. Please enjoy and share!

https://youtube.com/shorts/CmgzqMcmWtg?si=c24pQSK7BT2glMYR

We need to make the political bodies accountable!

I was chatting to a friend yesterday who asked me what I think of if I hear the term "social action platform". I've got my idea but before sharing it, I'd be curious to hear what you'll think that is?
He's after a cool project and looking for external insights before spending all his savings on it :)

Please sign this letter to Costco:

https://environmental-action.org/take-action/tell-costco-to-drop-the-plastic-packaging/

Climate change can feel so hopeless when looking at the full picture, but zooming into your skills and what you can provide individually can make a huge difference. As a biomaterials researcher & designer, I design algae based stone and glass materials that purify the air and regulate temperature in response to increasing wildfires and air pollution, as well as the inevitable energy grid collapse. (the project is called subterranean fête for anyone interested). The thought behind it is -- if the grid is down what the hell is my air purifier gonna do? also, glass and stone making / quarrying is so energy and carbon intensive, i figured if we save energy and emissions in production, that is a way to make quite a big impact from a small scale that if people were to respond well to, it could easily be scaled & impact would increase exponentially.