The Third Pole describes some important intersectional research into the effects of heatwaves on pregnant women and unborn babies in Pakistan. (The ‘third pole’ is the Himalayan glaciers.)
One for the Madagascar watchers: the government has announced a substantial solar strategy to bring electricity to the two thirds of the country still without reliable power.
How to run a car on waste plastic. Low Tech Magazine tells the story of a Dutch engineer who runs an old Volvo on plastic, and assesses whether or not this is a good idea.
Assuming we can’t run all our cars on plastic bottles found in hedgerows, here’s an important question raised by Polly Bindman: if the world is going to need some fossil fuels for a while to come, who should get to provide them?
Aldi are launching a new line of wines in a paper bottle, which has a mere sixth of the carbon of glass. Wine snobs would have a fit, but then I presume they don’t buy their wine from Aldi in the first place.
I’ve had 15 different speaking engagements in the last month, including universities, churches, primary and secondary schools. That’s left me with less time for writing, and so I’ve been aiming for three posts a week recently. I’m going to carry that pattern on for a while, as I consider the issues around the website that I’ve discussed before. That’s slightly fewer updates into your inboxes if you’re an email subscriber. It also makes this weekend round-up into a good one-stop update with all the week’s content. I will look into some way of making this a separate/additional subscription for those who would just like the one email a week.
Highlights from this week
Energy in a box for refugees
This week the 2024 Ashden Award nominees were announced, and it’s always worth a look. The award goes to innovative climate solutions that serve the margins, with nominees from the UK and from the global south. It’s nice to see Power Station included in the UK list, a project I’ve written about and visited. The…
Goodbye Globalization, by Elisabeth Braw
Globalization was one of the big talking points of my International Relations degree twenty years ago, when it was discussed with a certain inevitability about it. Despite the protests from some quarters, it felt like history led definitively towards greater integration. Trade would open the doors of the furthest reaches of the globe, and everyone…
Have you noticed the UK’s falling emissions?
In my box of climate communication tools for workshops and talks, I have an activity where I get people to guess the trajectory of Britain’s carbon emissions. I have a series of columns of different sizes that represent Britain’s emissions, and I invite people to put them in order. I used it at a conference…
The Earthbound Report 
Dear Jeremy,
Thank you for ‘Earthbound Report’. I have been leading a Lent series of Bible Studies on Creation Care with the last session taking place tomorrow. I find your regular updates and your blog very useful. You may gain a few more subscribers as a result of it when I mention resources that are helpful – your blog being one.
Best wishes, Nigel (James). Reader at St. John the Evangelist, Great Sutton, Cheshire.