Can you spot fossil fuel propaganda? Amy Westervelt and Kyle Pope explain five recurring messages in industry disinformation.
Just 10% of people in rural Madagascar have electricity, and an alliance of four small charities are addressing the deficit with solar ‘light libraries’. Click on to find out what that means, and there’s match funding on donations at the moment if you want to contribute to making it happen.
The end of coal mining in the UK left some communities in entrenched poverty for generations. It mustn’t happen again as the US moves beyond coal power – really good long read on this from Sammy Roth at the LA Times.
Carbon Copy got in touch this week to tell me about the new series of their podcast. I haven’t had a chance to listen yet, but I like what Carbon Copy are up to and will do very soon.
An upcoming event in Oxford that you might want to join, as it’s online as well as in person:
This week’s articles
Book review: Ancestral Future, by Ailton Krenak
For centuries now, the fastest way to be recognised as a thought leader on a topic is to publish a book about it. That’s not unreasonable, given how much time and thought it takes to write a book. But it does risk cutting important voices out of the debate. Some people are too busy to…
A fisherman turned ocean farmer
I’m an enthusiast for ocean farming, but I’m aware that I’m not the best person to talk about it. I live about as far inland as you can get in this small country, and I don’t have any great connection to the oceans. So take it from a fisherman instead, someone who actually knows whether…
Getting started with Let’s Go Zero
Let’s Go Zero is a campaign to help schools to take action on climate change. They’ve got almost three thousand schools to use their collective voice to lobby the government for change, with schools joining a target to reach net zero by 2030. In the last few months they have been expanding their work to…
The Earthbound Report 