Oxfam have launched ‘Second Hand September‘ to encourage more people to shop secondhand – and to promote their own stores as a place to do it of course.
Investigative climate journalism podcast Drilled returns for series 10, this time looking at the corporate lobbying behind a widespread global crackdown on protesting.
It can be easily missed in the genre’s obsession with conspicuous consumption, so it’s good to see Grist highlight the hip-hop artists that have used their platform to talk about climate change.
An extraordinary story from Florida, where Republican governor DeSantis has blocked federal climate spending aimed at low income households in the state. Presumably he doesn’t want to acknowledge climate change, but Politico also suggest it’s because he doesn’t want them to see any benefits from a Democratic government.
Meanwhile in the UK, Conservative backbenchers were doing the right thing for a change and taking the government to task over onshore wind, forcing them to ease (though not lift entirely) David Cameron’s deeply stupid ban.
Highlights from this week
Ultra-Processed People, by Chris van Tulleken
Ultra-Processed People is a book that I’ve heard a lot of people talking about this year. Not least my wife, who has been reading the small print on food packaging and pointing out things I don’t understand. On her recommendation, I read it too. I didn’t expect to review it here, where my focus is…
A story about structural injustice
Over the last couple of years I’ve spoken to many different audiences about my book, Climate Change is Racist: Race, Privilege and the Struggle for Climate Justice. Of the various difficult things that I tend to say in these presentations, the one that is most often misunderstood is the idea of structural racism. Most of…
Why it’s helpful to charge EVs on the go
I’m aware of four different ways to charge electric vehicles without stopping to plug in. All of them have been trialled and some are being adopted more widely. I’ve written about all four at some point: All of these technologies have pros and cons, but why do we want them in the first place? What’s…
The Earthbound Report 