Michael Graham @ukvalueengineer

Inspiration to plant a great forest in the Green belt around London - air quality, biodiversity, carbon, walking in nature and temperature!

🚨Indian Gems @IndianGems_

a week ago

Colombia reduced temperatures by 5°C by planting 880,000 trees along the streets of its cities.

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@Dieter_Helm While whole life value calculations are shaped by regulation rather than reality the debacle will continue. Scotland made a wise decision to keep water infrastructure in public hands

@vkhosla @AlexOsterwalder Quite likely, yes. But tax raising is not the challenge (you already identify a solution). The real challenge is to establish jobs and occupations that people can do for healthy working and lifetimes. I do wonder may Ancient Greece agriculture and art point a way to reinvent

A goal for Scotland. A goal for ALL OF SCOTLAND! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 John McGinn fires his nation ahead against Haiti! #FifaWorldCup

If we want change to be systemic, we need to engage people across multiple levels, from influencing and involving many, to co-creating with some. The "Engagement Staircase" from Russ Gaskin (CoCreative) and Akash Bhalerao (Ashoka) is a really helpful, research-informed framework for thinking about who we need to engage and how. Their core premise is that engagement is not a single act. It exists on a spectrum of levels, from communicating to many, through consulting, involving, and collaborating, to co-creating with a smaller core. Each step represents a progressively deeper level of stakeholder participation, ownership and shared power. In health and care, that tends to mean a lot of communication and consultation, and not enough collaboration and co-creation. We often inform people about change. We ask for their views. We call it engagement. But informing is the bottom step of the staircase, and consulting, however well-designed, still positions the leader as the one who decides. Working at higher levels of engagement requires a different kind of change leadership capacity. Co-creation is likely to mean relinquishing control over outcomes. Collaboration requires an ongoing investment in relationships, not just in on-off tasks. Most change leadership development is better at building lower-level engagement skills than upper-level ones. In our sector, there is a big push towards “co-production” or “co-creation” which is a positive thing. However, It is also problematic to think that we need to co-create with a lot of people. The higher up the staircase, the fewer people are involved, and that's by design. We communicate to many; we co-create with some. We have to be intentional about this distribution. The risk is trying to get everyone to the top step, or, just as problematic, keeping everyone at the bottom. Both are strategic errors. We should seek to work across all five levels simultaneously. It’s about holding large-scale awareness and influence across a wide network while nurturing a smaller network of co-creators who are deeply invested in the work. This requires thinking about engagement like a portfolio, mapping who needs to be where on the staircase, and actively managing upward movement over time. There is also an equity dimension. Who gets invited to collaborate and co-create? In too many change initiatives, the higher levels of engagement get reserved for those who already hold formal power or existing relationships with the change leader. Creating the conditions for systemic change means actively seeking out people whose experience is closest to the problem, even when that requires bridging structural divides. We might treat the Engagement Staircase as a mirror - reflecting on which levels we are working at, with whom, and what it would take to move the right people to higher levels of ownership of the change. The article: lnkd.in/eaDX8z5p. It has links to some great resources.

Should you be a standards maker? Now is your opportunity. linkedin.com/posts/ukvaluem…

This graph is a shocker, the fixes are easy, just undo what Thatcher did: - End right to buy totally - Let councils borrow at discount rates from the Bank of England for house building - Reintroduce rent controls No cost to the tax payer and will create revenue stream for councils.

David Timoney @fromarsetoelbow

2 months ago

The benefits of the growth in London's population and employment over the last quarter of a century have largely been captured by private landlords. The city is not an example of economic dynamism but of rentierism. More ... fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2026/05/decant…

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@s8mb What’s needed is substantial new build social housing to create vibrant communities as per period 1920-1970 whilst not repeating mistakes of 1960’s ‘slum clearances’ (destruction of communities) and not repeating mistakes of Thatcherism (public assets sold for short term gain).

I just signed a @theactionnet petition: Scotland Needs a Nature Minister. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/scot…

Ben isn’t exaggerating about the order of magnitude difference. In constant $: 🇬🇧 HS2: $626 mn/km 🇫🇷 LGV to Bordeaux: $43 mn/km 🇮🇹 Brescia–Verona: $63 mn/km 🇰🇷 Suseo line: $89 mn/km. Pricey. But that’s because it’s 87% in tunnel.

Ben Southwood @bswud

2 months ago

HS2 was a brilliant idea for £10bn, and is a terrible one for £100bn. That’s why getting costs down is the most important thing for Britain to do if it wants infrastructure abundance.

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HS2 was a brilliant idea for £10bn, and is a terrible one for £100bn. That’s why getting costs down is the most important thing for Britain to do if it wants infrastructure abundance.

David Algonquin @surplustakes

2 months ago

Government now calculates HS2's benefit cost ratio to be 0.3-0.4 The original 2013 business case said there was a ZERO per cent chance the BCR would be below 0.75

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@RickyBaile80754 @SqSehrish 51108exp11 by removing two matchsticks from first zero.

@ValaAfshar Well said

This guy built 9 different types of bridges made out of LEGO to demonstrate the complexity of each one. They get better and more advanced each each time.

The scale of this landslide is mind-blowing! About 1,500 people have been evacuated from Niscemi in Sicily after a landslide caused by heavy rain from Cyclone Harry tore through a hillside on the town’s edge. The landslide, which started moving on Sunday, has now formed a 4 km-long chasm that keeps widening, putting homes and the historic centre at risk of collapse. Officials say buildings within 50 to 70 metres of the slide are expected to fall. No one has been hurt, but homes have been damaged, schools are closed, and the road to Gela is shut. Ongoing movement and more rain are making the situation worse. 📹 Italian Fire Brigade

An across-government technical assessment published today recognises that "nature is the foundation of national security" and that "every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse". A rational response to this would be to get very serious about nature recovery. gov.uk/government/pub…

@ChrisMartzWX Trouble understanding the idea of an ‘average’? Then just look at a map of temperature change since the year 1880. It’s from NASA.

@rahmstorf is a leading light on natural systems. What has caused him to be so concerned? Can my USA colleagues voice their free speech?

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf

7 months ago

Don't say later you were not warned. The US government is working to silence science and destroy data which it doesn't like. eos.org/features/the-l…

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