The simple definition of carbon footprint: a measure usually in kilos or tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions which result from the…
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Abundance Investments is a crowd-funding platform that lets people finance green infrastructure. Bruce Davis is joint managing director. He has great experience…
The BBC started this train of thought about a carbon currency recently with an article describing how the world’s wealthiest are at…
I recently put some savings into bonds using the UK’s Abundance platform which offers various methods of sustainable investment. At that point,…
Compte Carbone is a French NGO that promotes carbon quota or rationing frameworks as the preferential climate policy over regulatory or taxation…
It’s Lockdown III in London, UK, everyone is desperate to get out and I’m looking for a low emissions holiday. There are…
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Green Investing with an Abundance ISA
Abundance Investments is ulta-green investing. They have been around for a few years now and are one of the “Best Buys” in…
Houston, we have a problem. With the governments of the world aiming for “Net Zero by 2050” to rescue our climate but…
I talk to Robin Nicholson, who is an architect at Cullinan Studios, an architecture co-operative which has been designing innovative low carbon…
Chris Friedler is a UK environmental lobbyist with Decarbonise Now with an extensive working knowledge of the UK climate policy – if…
The drop in passenger numbers on trains due to COVID-19 is boosting UK low carbon freight – they’re running 10% longer trains,…
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What is Climate Justice?
Kelo Uchendu is a student at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, an activist pushing for Climate Justice and an organiser of the…
Hugh Archibald White was born and brought up in Calgary, Canada in the 1940s and 50s. He gave me a run-down on…
Nobody asked for climate change and global warming, melting ice caps and rising sea levels. Which climate denial can you relate to?…
This week I persuaded my old friend from Germany, Dirk Carstens, to give me the run-down on the pros and cons of…
Dr. Bremley W.B. Lyngdoh is Director Microfinance & Ecorestoration of Earthbanc, which enables smallholders to plant mangroves and build sustainable livelihoods by…
My guest on this week’s podcast is Danny Badger, fisheries scientist, educator, jellyfish nerd and general oceans expert, who’s worked at the…
I interview Kate Calvert, Superhome creator and North London resident: what happens when you do a green retrofit on a 19th Century…
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Shifting Baseline Syndrome
Finally some proof that if things happen slowly, we’re less likely to notice them. It’s called the shifting baseline syndrome, AKA the…
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Coral Reefs
Coral reefs worldwide have been hit hard over the last few years, but they are far from lost. The survival of these…
In the USA, the UK and the countries of western Europe, about 80% of adults own a car. These must all become…
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The Carbon Budget Made Simple
When student climate striker Greta Thunberg talks about “simple maths”, she means the carbon budget and how the 2015 Paris Climate Accord…
The flywheel, feature of every Industrial Revolution museum, could save the electricity grid with its energy storage capabilities. If you’re not an…
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Heavy Industry CO2 Emissions
BBC Futures ran an article on carbon capture from aluminium smelting in Iceland. Heavy industry CO2 emissions make for a heavy carbon…
In 2017 the Finnish city of Lahti declared they would become carbon-neutral by 2025. Now they must get each citizen to reduce…