A study in the United States has looked into the benefits of electric vehicles for children’s health. A full shift to EVs would mean huge reductions in childhood asthma and respiratory illness, and save hundreds of lives every year.
Speaking of EVs, and those cheap ones from China I keep mentioning – here’s the first shipment arriving in Germany. They come on their own ship which is powered by liquid natural gas.
I knew this already, but I was browsing the Global Climate Highlights report from Copernicus this week and the first graph struck home again just how bonkers was for global temperatures.
While I do like a firework show myself, I recognise that they play havoc with wildlife and scatter fire risks all over the neighbourhood. Could drone light shows be a better option?
The Church of England has announced funding for 60 ‘demonstrator churches‘ that are aiming for net zero by 2025, paving the way for the whole denomination to meet its ambitious climate targets.
Highlights from this week
The first carbon calculator for schools
As Britain moves towards net zero by 2050, every company, organisation and institution needs to take responsibility for its carbon emissions and come up with a plan to reduce them. The first step is to measure them, and set a baseline against which to measure progress. Personal carbon footprint calculators are common and there are…
Al Mizan, an Islamic covenant for the earth
In 2015 Pope Francis made one of the most influential interventions into the global climate conversation. Laudato Si threw the weight of the Catholic Church behind a new climate agreement, set in the context of inequality, poverty and disenfranchisement. It kickstarted a climate movement within the church, including spin-off initiatives such as the Economy of…
Reviving rural railways with Monocab
Britain’s railway network is a fraction of what it was a century ago. With the rise of private motoring and the building of the road network, railways were less important – and less glamorous too in the new age of the motorcar. The network was trimmed and consolidated. Most notorious was the programme of cuts…
The Earthbound Report 