- The Guardian continues to evolve its response to the climate emergency, and this week published a climate change dashboard.
- At their annual conference, Britain’s Liberal Democrat party voted to back a Universal Basic Income. The Lib Dems are not the force they were, but it marks another step towards the mainstream for Basic Income. (The Green Party also supports BI)
- Governments resist them, campaigners often demand them without necessarily thinking it through, so it’s useful to The Economist’s perspective on how ‘outright bans can sometimes be a good way to fight climate change‘.
- As an experiment, I’m dropping the latest posts from this week in at the bottom, for those catching up. Let me know if this is a helpful feature or not, and I might add it every week.
What we learned this week
I’ve always enjoying seeing neighbouring houses with solar panels, and knowing that one person’s actions have inspired those around them. That effect has now been researched and quantified, should you be interested in the exact likelihood of someone installing solar if their neighbours do. Chinese battery maker CATL, the world’s largest supplier of EV batteries,…
The age of solar power is here
This week I read about a 70MW solar farm that has just opened in Lapland in Northern Finland. Not so long ago this would have sounded like madness. Even with the benefit of 22 hours of sunshine in the summer, solar power this far north would not have made sense. PV panels are now so…
What we learned this week
In January I suggested that solar cars, which I consider to be the gold standard of private motoring, would come out of the majority world rather than big legacy Western companies. Thai company Solarky are the latest, reviewed here by Everything Electric. Out to prove me wrong are Nissan, who recently announced that they are…
The Earthbound Report 