Possible are organising an event at Parliament on the climate impact of aviation, and innovative alternatives to airport expansion. Invite your MP to attend.
Also on aviation, the Heated newsletter had a good piece on Boeing, and how competition with Airbus led it to cut corners on its environmental plans.
If you’re not taking cultured meat seriously yet, consider this a ringing endorsement of its potential: the US meat industry is lobbying, quite successfully, to make it illegal.
Educators – have a look at the climate syllabus hub from LSE’s Phelan US Centre. It has a collection of syllabuses (syllabi?) from universities across the US and beyond, and for anyone looking to incorporate climate themes into their subject this will be a big head start.
My latest Zero Carbon Luton newsletter has all the climate news from the town, including greener leisure centres, a church solar array, and a visit to the Cambridge eco-mosque.
Highlights from this week
Book review: Fevered Planet, by John Vidal
“Throughout history,” writes John Vidal, “advances in civilisation – agriculture, domestication, urbanisation and globalisation – have all been accompanied by increasing disease risk. But never before has the human population been so large, so hyper-connected and living at such high densities. We are now approaching a storm of spiralling disease risk.” That’s the argument made…
The Islamic case for degrowth?
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Al-Mizan, a ‘covenant for the earth’ that has been recently published by Islamic scholars. It aims to present a Muslim response to climate change, and call people to action around relevant principles of faith. I live in a town with a significant Muslim presence and work regularly…
Plant your pants for soil science
This week I’ve written about the connection between disease and the environment, and Islamic arguments for degrowth. So it feels considerably less serious to be writing today about the campaign Plant Your Pants. And yes, that’s the British meaning of the word pants – get out there and plant your tighty whiteys in the ground.…
The Earthbound Report 