A bizarre story I’d not heard before: did you know that the inventor of solar panels was kidnapped in 1909, with his captors demanding that he relinquish his patents and close down his company?
From the same era, I enjoyed this Fully Charged Show review and test drive of a 120 year old electric car. Interesting to see the combination of surprisingly advanced ideas (regenerative braking) and unexpected omissions (a steering wheel).
Is it time to start gathering evidence on the connection between climate change and human rights abuses and conflict? A coalition of human rights organisations say it is.
The Climate Change Committee advised a 35% cut in meat consumption in the UK to meet climate targets. There’s been a fall of 14% since 2012.
My friend Konni Deppe tells the story of the Luton Apple Amnesty, a fabulous local project that is making juice from surplus apples, and restoring the town’s orchards along the way.
Highlights from this week
The Politics of Time, by Guy Standing
This is not the first time I’ve reviewed Guy Standing, radical economist and author of The Plunder of the Commons and Basic Income. But I’ve been particularly looking forward to his new book. I wrote my university dissertation on the commodification of time, and I consider time use to be one of the great unexplored…
Repair is a vote winner
It was International Repair Day on Saturday, which means there was a lot of interesting comment about it over the weekend. Here’s something that caught my eye: supporting repair is really popular. There’s a petition associated with this, so go and sign it. Let’s make sure that politicians of all stripes know that we want…
Britain’s (sometimes) falling emissions
When the Conservative government was junking their own environmental policies a few weeks ago, they offered an unusual reason why: we’re great at this stuff. Probably the best in the world, according to the Prime Minister. Since we are, in his words, “so far ahead of every other country in the world,” the best thing…
The Earthbound Report 