Thread by @eleanormharris

This is #EarthOvershoot day but also the start of something. What 100 things for the climate are you going to do in the #100DaysOfPossibility between now and #COP26?

1. Wrote a briefing on farm carbon audits for colleagues

(I'll never keep this up for 100 days - but it seems worth a try!)
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2. My forum with @Galbraith_Rural colleagues generated fantastic discussion on net zero farms. Thanks to this smiley lot who were happy to stay on for this photo to mark the start of something exciting!😃😄🙂😀😁🙃😊😃 #100DaysOfPossibility

3. Digesting this key new briefing scoping technical considerations about including harvested wood in the Woodland Carbon Code. Next-level sophistication in valuing carbon benefit. forestresearch.gov.uk/documents/8119… #100DaysOfPossibility

4. (yesterday) Emails flying about as I organise a social media campaign for COP26 with my church - more on this shortly! #100DaysOfPossibility

5. By popular request I reactivated the @StJohnPrincesSt environmental facebook page and trained our green group to post to it, so we can create a great noise around #COP26. The remnant who stayed for the photo were still smiling! facebook.com/earthbeglad/ph…
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6. Church climate warrior training part 2 - I revived our languishing environmental blog and trained 5 new editors to post to it for #COP26 - which @awwright64 has done already 👏 earthbeglad.blogspot.com/2021/08/cop26.… #100DaysOfPossibility

@awwright64 7. Writing my paper for @ialeUK conference on forests, woods and trees in the UK where I'll be bringing the timber/ circular economy perspective. Book your tickets for an ideal #100DaysOfPossibility event! #COP26

@awwright64 @ialeUK 8. My core remit is natural capital advocacy amongst farmers and foresters - but @Galbraith_Group also works with home-owners. Are you one? This is for you! #100DaysOfPossibility galbraithgroup.com/blog/natural-c…

9. Briefing @Galbraith_Rural colleagues on the developing codes for measuring and quality-controlling low-carbon landscapes: new woodland, peatland, hedgerow, arable, saltmarsh - time also for woodland management? And what about pasture? #100DaysOfPossibility #COP26 (1/2)

2/2 All the way to Moffat and beyond, @andyheald, Anneke and I were discussing how a "general carbon code" would work - one that worked right across landscape and through the supply chain. #100DaysOfPossibility #COP26

11. Exploration of low-carbon landscape with @andyheald. Species choice, thinning, deadwood, construction timber, continuous cover, natural regeneration, "oversized" timber, matrix landscapes, much more. Welsh forests brimming with #100DaysOfPossibility! #COP26

12. I challenged our green team at @StJohnPrincesSt to stick their hats in the ring, get on social media, and write a blog in the run up to COP26 - so while I've got some holiday time I thought I'd better do one myself. #100DaysOfPossibility #COP26 #IPCC earthbeglad.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-ip…

13. Exploring @OPALlandegla with former forest manager @andyheald, talking carbon, construction, continuous cover, deadwood, FSC, 170,000 visitors, bikes, drinking water, black grouse. At under 50 it's still just a young forest in forest terms.

14. A quick and dirty analysis of the important Edinburgh Draft Climate Strategy for @StJohnPrincesSt and anyone else who might be interested. earthbeglad.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-ed…

15. @adam_tooze taught me economics in 2000. A throwaway comment about climate change in the last lecture in my final year at university made me think my childhood environmentalism wasn't so childish after all, and changed my course. #100DaysOfPossibility amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

16. Caught up with this week's excellent @BBCFarmingToday series on forestry - and other good climate change topics. I recommend! #100DaysOfPossibility bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b…

17. Day off carbon really but went for a walk by bus and discussed carbon payments in land use to my walking companion. This was the only photo I took, on top of the bus in Portobello! #100DaysOfPossibility

18. (Weekend) Sang madrigals under one of my favourite carbon stores: Cedric the 18thC cedar. #100DaysOfPossibility

19. We've all been podcasted, talking about trees and many things including climate - and I'm far too scared to listen to it... 🙈🙉 #100DaysOfPossibility

20. Writing my paper for @ialeUK conference on the Landscape Ecology of Forests Woods and Trees. Book your tickets!

(yes I'm doing a bit of a catch up on these)
21. First day working in the @Galbraith_EDI office with some of the fab team in person. Our rural carbon management work moved several steps forward thanks to being able to just have a conversation in person 🥳
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22. I wrote a blog.
#100DaysOfPossibility #COP26 #NaturalCapital

23. I did a survey! #100DaysOfPossibility

24. (Weekend) Supporting the arts at @EdinCulture City Art Centre, @edintfest and @edfringe - consumerism without consumption - arts should have its own place in the circular economy. #100DaysOfPossibility

25. (Weekend) Carbon store worship in Edinburgh's Dean Cemetery. Amazing weeping beeches.
#100DaysOfPossibility
#thicktrunktuesday

26. Got together a group from Scottish Episcopal churches to talk about better use of their gardens/ grounds for nature. Some great ideas, and a strong theme of healing.
#100DaysOfPossibility

27. Starting some interesting conversations about carbon and kelp... then went for a swim in the sea after work and encountered rather more free samples than I needed
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28. Working with our amazing @Galbraith_Group GIS team to develop and use better information to monitor and manage carbon and natural capital in landscapes.

My 7 year old planet-saving self would think this was just magic.
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@Galbraith_Group 29. Why is the rural economy fundamental to #NetZero and why do we need the best brains in the country to work in it? I put the case to @RenewableUK Future Forum. Could the route to #COP26 be your #100DaysOfPossibility?

30. Digging into evidence for mapping carbon, so as to give landowners and land managers the best information they need for becoming carbon capturers. #100DaysOfPossibility map.environment.gov.scot/Soil_maps/?lay…

31. I'm behind with this series but there are interesting discussions taking place on concrete, materials and carbon in the run up to #COP26. #100DaysOfPossibility

32. (Weekend) A good deal of climate up Braeriach 😊

33. (Weekend) Friend has new garden, we made a start on gardening it. It only has one plant: some donated mint in a pot. So I introduced him to the idea you can just pick the mint and make it into packaging/transport free tea.

34. I'm hugely looking forward to #ialeUK21
conference on the Landscape Ecology of Forests, Woods and Trees today.

I'm talking about regenerative forestry in practice in the UK. If it's the first, I hope it's not the last time you hear the phrase 'regenerative forestry'.

35. Day two of #ialeUK21 - joining the dots between forest ecology, carbon, and circular economy - sharing an eminent panel with @SallieBailey20 @Jo_Pike Jenny Hodgson, Jon Stokes, ably chaired by @GeordieSparrow #100DaysOfPossibility

@SallieBailey20 @Jo_Pike @GeordieSparrow 36. Thought-provoking short talk on climate change from a history teacher's perspective (with a bit of church music) - by @Historylecturer (starts at 24 minutes) facebook.com/watch/live/?v=…

37. Top two recommendations from @GreenAllianceUK to hit carbon targets?
- Reduce steel/ cement use and replace with lower carbon materials
- Tackle farm carbon emissions.
The spotlight on land use is getting brighter- @Galbraith_Group is getting ahead.
bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

38. Writing my talk for the @ScotLandEstates Virtual Conference on 29 September on 'wielding carbon codes' - book your place if you fancy a bit of wielding 💪 #100DaysOfPossibility #COP26 scottishlandandestates.co.uk/events/virtual…

39. In @Galbraith_Group is we have everyone from farmers interested in productive land to engineers interested in materials - and everyone is interested in carbon. So when we all visit @bswtimber sawmill where the magic happens, the excitement is palpable. #100DaysOfPossibility

40. @bswtimber (the biggest employer in Fort William area) supplied this wood for the gorgeous new @HighlandCinema - placemaking at the centre of the town. Fantastic work by John and Peter from @Galbraith_Group who delivered the project.

41. Filming the other day in Glasgow outside the #COP26 venue, recording messages why and how producers of food and materials can cut carbon emissions and start a natural capital journey. Watch this space! #100DaysOfPossibility

42. Don't miss this three-minute animation from Builders for Climate Action which explains really clearly why building with biogenic materials is a carbon win. #COP26 #100DaysOfPossibility

43. In the @Galbraith_PTH Perth office today with the team developing natural capital and carbon assessments - blue sky and fantastic sunflowers 🌻

@Galbraith_PTH 44. Don't miss this great mini-animation from @StAndEngaged on the magical qualities of a deceptively ordinary material - we grow and manufacture lots of it in the UK. #100DaysOfPossibility Via @FlyingQuercus

45. I'm enjoying the numbers from Haydn's Creation in our choir repertoire to mark Creationtide in the run up to #COP26 🎼🐾
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46. This morning I'm much looking forward to speaking at #SLEconf21 The Business of Climate Change. If you're here, come and say hello to me and our other experts in the Galbraith breakout rooms during the networking sessions through the day.
scottishlandandestates.co.uk/sites/default/…

Two climate and land uses conferences in two days!
Today I'm at @TheICF Climate Smart Forestry conference getting into the detail of carbon-capturing and (more importantly) climate-adapted resilient landscapes.
#ClimateSmart21
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48. My favourite statistical publication is out! Looking forward to delving into this year's Forestry Statistics - a goldmine of data on low-carbon bioeconomy in action:

50. Now are you going to take it seriously, #COP26?!

51. An in-person event! 😃 With a virtual speaker 😯 @EdSciFest demonstrating how well this works to get the best speaker in the world in the room to tell the businesses of Edinburgh how to approach net zero effectively. #100DaysOfPossibility

52. (Don't think I'm going to make my #100daysofpossibility!) A really interesting (and soggy) day looking at a @PenninePeatLIFE peatland restoration project, learning about the ecology, technology and sociology involved - and there is a lot of all three! More than carbon.

53. Some musings from me on how landowners can set carbon codes into a bigger picture of land management that tackles climate, biodiversity and resources crises together. #100DaysOfPossibility

54. An evening on a train and @WoollyMaggot has sent me a really interesting book 🥰 One happy historian-environmentalist!

55. What do we want from #COP26? Four of us at @Galbraith_Group put together our thoughts: galbraithgroup.com/news/what-we-w… #100daysofpossibility

56. I've never seen such a powerful exhibition on climate change as this - hundreds of people from across Edinburgh, many from groups whose voices are rarely heard, expressing Our Precious And Precarious World. At the West End all this week - don't miss it. #COP26

57. On #EarthOvershootDay I set out to mark the #100DaysOfPossibility to #Cop26 starting today. Every day since I've been working on the vital role of land in tackling climate change, and will continue to do so. Here's why:

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