You might remember that I left a whole bunch of organisations at the turn of the year and said I’d invest my money according to how I was feeling about them instead of paying a fixed membership. Well, here’s the first instalment of news on that front: Greenpeace noticed that I’d cancelled my DD and…
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Who do they follow? Liz Truss
Liz Truss is the Secretary of State at Defra and the MP for Southwest Norfolk. Her Twitter handle is @trussliz. She has 21,500 Twitter followers (including me) and follows 940 Twitter accounts (not including me). Ms Truss’s Twitter account gives little evidence that she is interested in the environment at all. She follows no national…
Who do they follow? Rory Stewart
Rory Stewart is the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at Defra and the MP for Penrith and the Borders. His Twitter handle is @RoryStewartUK. He has 24,500 Twitter followers (including me) and follows 590 Twitter accounts (not including me). It’s sometimes amusing to stroll through someone’s Twitter follows. They are usually a varied bunch and…
Environmentalists for Europe E4E
This looks good: a new website and group called Environmentalists for Europe. The website is rather slow – perhaps it is being inundated with people joining? Follow on Twitter at @Env4Eur Like on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/EnvironmentalistsForEurope/ It’s good to see cross-party support from the likes of Lord Deben, Baroness Young, Caroline Lucas MP, Richard Benyon…
Do you tweet (revisited, revisited)
I can’t beleive that it’s almost 18 months since I updated this list of Twitter accounts from some of our favourite wildlife organisations (and BASC and GWCT). But, apparently it is. My Twitter following passed 25,000 a little while ago so I thought that rather than preen myself on the size of my achievement I’d…