Over in the UK we’ve heard very little about the Climate Defiance direct action movement that’s been troubling the peace of US fossil fuel interests. This article from Inside Climate News is a good place to catch up.
I really enjoyed reading about Practical Action’s project on regenerative farming and solar irrigation for refugee farmers in Rwanda.
The Fully Charged Show reports on an electric car made by students in the Netherlands that absorbs CO2 as it goes. Yes, an insignificantly minuscule amounts at this point, but an novel idea.
Do heat pumps work in the cold? Hannah Ritchie deals comprehensively with some common misinformation on her Sustainability by Numbers newsletter.
I’ve had a number of speaking engagements to write talks for recently, so fewer posts this week. Also it’s been half term, so I’ve been on dad business and to be honest I’ve spent more time playing Fortnite than writing. Three posts though:
Highlights from this week
Book review: The Climate Majority Project
Having been involved a fair bit in Extinction Rebellion (XR) in its early days, I found myself gravitating towards different sorts of actions after the movement’s peak. As I’ve written about before, a lot of XR folks didn’t recognise the wins they’d achieved. They had demanded that councils and organisations declare a climate emergency, and…
What is biorecycling?
Plastic waste is a vast and complicated environmental scourge, and the problem is getting worse by the day as plastic-wrapped consumer goods reach a larger percentage of the world’s population. It’s an environmental issue and a justice issue, and so far the most high profile response – recycling – has been unable to stem the…
The under-reported crises of 2023
For eight years now Care International has commissioned media analysis into the least reported humanitarian crises of the year. The 2023 report is called Breaking the Silence, and for the second year in a row all of the top ten are in Africa. As the Kenyan journalist Zelipha Kirobi says, “Africa is barely visible in…
The Earthbound Report 
Thanks – I found the paragraph on Climate Defiance particularly interesting