Lidl have announced that you can hire a Christmas jumper from them instead of buying one, saving on waste from what has apparently become a disposable fashion item. Green action or PR stunt?
I wrote recently about why e-bikes are more important than EVs for sustainable transport. Here’s another piece of research on e-bikes that highlights this same point.
The government won’t do it, but Oxford has unilaterally decided that no new homes will be built in the city with gas boilers.
A Conservative government policy to get businesses to report food waste was scrapped last month. There has now been a u-turn on the u-turn and it’s back on again. Good to see, but it would be nice if the government could just follow through on its own good ideas without panicking and binning them and then changing their minds.
The climate talks for this year have begun. I have to admit my hopes for anything useful out of COP28 are somewhere below zero, given the folks in charge of it this year. I hope my cynicism is unfounded and that the UAE surprise us. You can follow developments here.
Highlights from this week
Is hydrogen better for the climate?
A couple of years ago I wrote a series of articles about hydrogen. There was a lot of attention on it at the time, and several pilot studies were underway. Two years later a degree of clarity is emerging around the role that hydrogen might play in reducing emissions, but it depends on three important…
A breakthrough in sustainable aviation fuel?
Today Virgin Atlantic flew one of their planes from London to New York on 100% sustainable aviation fuel, or SAF. It’s a world first – so far SAF has only been used as a percentage in a fuel mix. This will be the first time that a commercial airliner has taken on nothing but biofuels,…
The Futures of Racial Capitalism, by Gargi Bhattacharyya
You may have come across the term ‘racial capitalism’ – perhaps in activist circles or in antiracist debate. It isn’t always used well, but like any debate, there are different levels of intelligent engagement. The noise usually comes from the shallow end, and there is some deeper thinking going on in books like this one.…
The Earthbound Report 
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