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…
There are two big “Green New Deals” on the table: the US Democrats want one and are planning to bring it in…
Personal Carbon Trading or PCT is a mechanism for increasing flexibility and efficiency in a carbon rationing or cap-and-trade scheme. It is…
The city of Lahti in Finland is running an experimental personal carbon trading scheme, with voluntary carbon rationing or quotas helping citizens…
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Ecosia really is Effortless Climate Action
Ecosia is the search engine that promises to use the advertising revenue they make from your searches to plant trees for the…
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The Energy Storage Issue
Houston we have a problem. It turns out that all those climate deniers who didn’t want us to invest in renewable energy…
Had the chance of talking on ABC Australia radio about carbon footprints and carbon rationing on the Future Tense programme, along with…
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Offsetting Step-by-Step
The concept: emit CO2 – and pay to compensate for it. If CO2 and climate change are destroying the planet, the idea…
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Goodbye Coal
It’s got to go. There’s basically no overlooking the fact that coal releases 20% more CO2 emissions per kilowatt of energy produced…
Back in November 2019 last year Jeremy Clarkson, lifelong petrol-head and scourge of the environmental movement, had a ‘green’ epiphany. He spoke…
Tell us briefly what work you want to do and what it will aim to achieve… (750 chars) Our first goal is…
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Clear Blue Skies in Lockdown
The last time so few planes were in the air was in the 3 days following the 9/11 attacks. Air traffic over…
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Trillion Trees
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January 2020, the world’s billionaires threw their weight behind the WWF’s Trillion Trees…
This is the submission we made to the UK Dept of BEIS in response to their call for proposals to be considered…
Photo by Jack Bassingthwaighte on Unsplash The unprecedented Australian bushfires in 2020 followed the lost 2019 ‘Unloseable Climate Election’ As we enter…