Today is Bookshop Day in the UK, which seems like a good time to remind you all that I have a dedicated bookshop for this website: Earthbound Books. You can get anything you want there, not just the booklists curated by me that feature on the homepage. The revenues from Earthbound Books pay the hosting fees for this website, so thanks to those of you who choose it over that retail giant named after a rainforest.
Having grown up in a country where malaria was a constant sinister presence for most people, the news that the world now has a second vaccine against the disease is really something to celebrate. Dozens of African countries are currently planning vaccine campaigns.
FlyBox is a company making modular insect farms in a shipping container. It’s an all in one system with food waste going in one end and protein and fertiliser comes out the other.
We’ve been playing an earlier edition of this for a couple of years now as a family, but the board game Carbon City Zero, developed by Possible, is now available to order. It’s good. It’s cooperative so you won’t have arguments about it like some board games, and you can order it now in time for Christmas for those climate people you know.
Ted Trainer has been running his practical experiment in simpler living since 1985. He explains his approach and takes you around his site in a video that’s every bit as DIY and homespun as what he’ll show you.
Highlights from this week
The road to zero carbon glass
I’m in my co-working space today in Luton town centre. I have a lovely bright room to write in on the first floor of an old hat workshop. The hat workers needed lots of natural light to see what they were doing, so the room has windows on three sides. I can see 86 individual…
The true scale of solar panel waste
“Energy experts are calling for urgent government action to prevent a looming global environmental disaster,” warned a BBC news article earlier this year. The potential ‘environmental disaster’ they refer to is waste solar panels, and stories about them are very common. You’ve probably seen them. If the journalist is being lazy, they probably called it…
Personal climate actions that matter
There’s a lot of confusion over which climate actions make the biggest difference – or even whether personal actions make any difference at all. They do – about a quarter of climate emissions can be dealt with through personal actions. The rest is beyond our control as individuals, though of course we can campaign and…
The Earthbound Report 