The American beef industry has launched a certification for ‘climate-friendly’ beef. The first product to be certified is branded the Brazen Burger, which is entirely apt when you look into their claims.
At a time when most governments are still resolutely behind fossil fuels, it’s extraordinary that the State of California is suing five big oil companies who “intentionally suppressed” what they knew about climate change to protect their profits.
This happened last week, but I didn’t get round to reading up on it until yesterday – the first draft of a global plastics treaty has been published. We should expect the full might of the plastics/fossil fuel industry to rally against it, but for now, it has a lot of promise.
While the government has gone cold on them, the £50 million that Octopus Energy invested in heat pump R&D has resulted in their first in-house design. With the government’s improved grant, it may well be free for a lot of households.
The Luton to Dunstable busway – the world’s longest urban busway, I’ll have you know – is ten years old this weekend. I made some busway t-shirts to mark this momentous occasion, on the off-chance that you’re one of the two or three people in the world who want to celebrate Luton’s public transport infrastructure on your chest.
Highlights from this week
10 lies Rishi Sunak is telling about net zero
“We need sensible, green leadership,” Rishi Sunak told the country last night, and “a better, more honest debate about how we secure the country’s long-term interest.” He used the words ‘honesty’ five times during a speech which contained dozens of falsehoods about climate policy. So, in the interests of an honest debate, here are ten…
What about half the meat?
“At the risk of seeming unreasonable, may curses rain down on the fair-weather vegan,” began a recent article on meat-eating from a certain national newspaper. It went on to lambast ‘fake’ vegans, or ‘fegans’. Sales of meat alternatives are falling, and “we should have known the vegan-newbies would turn out to be a bunch of…
Book review: Tiger Work, by Ben Okri
“When they asked meTo come up withWords that could speakTo a world on the vergeOf environmental collapse,I had a crisis of my own.” That’s the beginning of one of the poems in this collection. Across its selection of stories, essays and poetry, the Nigerian Booker Prize Winner wrestles with the threat of catastrophe, our inability…
The Earthbound Report 