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Sunday, September 3rd, 2023The interests of 8 billion people and all of life on Earth are currently in the hands of 36 individuals. What can we do to prevent the destruction of fragile ecosystems that underpin Earth’s habitability? Read Dr Sylvia Earle’s thoughts on deep sea mining Right now it’s a privilege to be alive. Why destroy the […]
Best books of 2022
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023My book the the year award goes without a doubt to the Guardian newspaper’s environmental journalist George Monbiot for his exceptionally well researched and deeply inspiring book Regenesis, Feeding the world without devouring the planet. Monbiot’s masterpiece brings hope that we certainly can find a way to re-wild a third of the planet and still […]
Rethinking refrigeration
Monday, January 2nd, 2023Every year, when winter comes around I ponder the insanity of millions of households in Europe keeping their fridges running inside heated homes when it’s freezing outside. This winter I thought I’d experiment on myself a bit before suggesting to others that they switch off their fridges to reduce their carbon footprint 😉 Early November […]
Miracle battery? – positive sparks fly at last!
Tuesday, August 16th, 2022Batteries vs environment – good news For the last three decades, the race has been on to create batteries that don’t cost us the Earth, quite literally, through the massive destruction of fragile ecosystems caused in their creation. Lithium-ion batteries are currently favoured by phone and car companies, but the environmental and humanitarian cost of […]
Roads as batteries
Sunday, January 9th, 2022Why not put salt water batteries under roads, so that cars and trucks can be lighter (and therefore require less energy to move). The energy could be stored mostly in or alongside the road, rather than mostly in the car. A switch to salt batteries would do enormous good for the environment, particularly towards the […]
Solstice. Our hearts are the place where the turnaround starts.
Tuesday, December 21st, 2021Today is Solstice. Birth place of 2022. The turnaround point for a new direction, for the planet and all of us on it. What to turn around? Perhaps our own apathy? Moving from apathy to courage. Toward action, safeguarding the wellbeing of other species. Let’s insist on a turnaround by companies who threaten breeding whales […]
Storing carbon in your basement (or garden)
Sunday, December 19th, 2021Recently a friend chucked out most of her beloved books and went digital. But what to do with the real gems and treasures you no longer have room for? I took some of them on, including the Quran and a Year the Rumi, because I couldn’t bear to see them turned into “pulp fiction” and, […]
The anatomy of inaction – what does climate change have to do with collective trauma?
Saturday, November 13th, 2021What does climate change have to do with collective trauma and how each of us can contribute to healing the climate crisis by doing our own inner work – by becoming aware of frozen places within inhibiting our ability to respond? Our willingness or ability to respond to the urgency of the crisis in which […]
One Sun, one World, One Grid – hurray!
Saturday, November 13th, 2021Possibly one of the most promising commitments to come out of COP26, the 26th United Nations Climate Change conference, is the idea of an international grid of clean energy. Beautifully explained here by William Ury, author of Getting to Yes and several other books. This interview with Ury thanks to the pocketproject.org What happens if […]
Ending the climate crisis in one generation
Monday, November 8th, 2021Highly recommended reading! Paul Hawken’s book Regeneration, Ending the climate crisis in one generation is an empowering, hopeful and beautiful book offering us sane advice in a world that’s seemingly spinning in the opposite direction. “It’s not game over. It’s game on,” says Paul and his solution is simple: “Stop. Turn around. Go the other […]
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