I made the comparison between the government’s ‘stop the boats’ rhetoric and luxury yachts this week, and Aditya Chakrabortty made the same point in the Guardian: “The tories are right, we should stop the boats. Just not the ones they’re talking about.”
Could you (or your school) take part in the Big Plastic Count this year? It’s a citizen investigation into waste plastic which informs campaigns, and it runs from the 11th to the 17th of March.
Having recommended Hannah Ritchie’s book It’s Not the End of the World last week, here’s a podcast from Mongabay that takes issue with the book’s ‘apolitical’ outlook and interviews the author about it.
Someone’s carried out a rather clever prank on Toyota, who remain one of the biggest lobbyists against electric cars. The Electra AI bot that they announced invites users to chat to it, and then undermines Toyota’s plans to keep making combustion engine cars for as long as possible.
Seaweed farming is moving forwards quickly in Europe. While ocean farming could regenerate coastal communities, a new study argues that the way it is currently being pursued is tech-focused and (surprise surprise) won’t deliver those social benefits.
Highlights from this week
How many bins do you need?
Last year Prime Minister Rishi Sunak congratulated himself for scrapping plans to make households sort waste into seven different bins. The plan mainly existed in Rishi’s mind, which made if very easy to scrap. But it does raise an important question – how many bins is the right number? I ask because I had a…
Heating homes with supercomputers
Did you know that Britain has a national supercomputer? It’s hosted at the Advanced Computing Facility at the University of Edinburgh and it’s used on our crunchiest problems, such as climate modelling or processing health data. It’s in the news this week because of a trial of a new heating idea – an idea that…
Superyachts, by Gregory Salle
The superyacht is often used to illustrate luxury and extreme wealth, for those who approve and aspire to such things and for those who don’t. A yacht is the ultimate symbol of success to some, and visual shorthand for inequality to others. We understand the symbol without really taking those yachts very seriously, and so…
The Earthbound Report 
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