It’s been an odd experience this week seeing articles from the BBC, Sky, Al Jazeera and the Guardian, all describing a collapsed dam in Old Kijabe, and knowing that there is no dam on that river – see this week’s post. There have been three more landslides since the big one that made the news, and it is still raining. If you can support my friends that are pumping water, clearing mud and organising aid, please donate through the Kijabe Forest Trust or Eden Projects.
A work related link to pass on to your teacher friends: the Climate Action Countdown has a month’s worth of school activities from Let’s Go Zero and partners, and it kicks off on June 7th.
The latest edition of my Zero Carbon Luton newsletter is out. This one includes a circular economy business called Green Doors that you should look up, a new park and ride scheme that you can skip if you’re not local, and a football fan who has cycled to every Luton away game all season.
Luton also in the news as the Ad-Free Cities campaign rightly calls for mass complaints to the Advertising Standards Agency about Luton airport adverts which hail their ‘green’ expansion plans and forget to mention the planes.
I’m on a climate justice panel for the Grand Challenges seminar series in Oxford this week, 5pm on the 9th, or drop in if you’re in the area. Flyer below.
This week’s articles
Book review: Rooted, by Sarah Langford
Sarah Langford didn’t expect to write a book about farming. She is a lawyer and lives in the city. But she was the grandchild of farmers, and events led her and her family back into farming almost by accident. This book tells her story, along with the stories of other farmers at a time of…
The value of repair
On the off-chance that you’re in Helsinki some time soon, you’ll be able to drop in on what sounds like a very good exhibition. FIX: Care and Repair is being held jointly across the Museum of Finnish Architecture and the Design Museum, and it celebrates the idea of repair as part of Finnish culture. “The…
Can you stand with me for the Kijabe Forest?
When I was a teenager I attended a high school on the slopes of the Rift Valley in Kenya, and we used to go hiking in the Kijabe Forest. We would climb over the fence at the back of school and scramble up onto the railway tracks. Then we’d follow them around the contours of…
- Can you stand with me for the Kijabe Forest?
- The value of repair
- Book review: Rooted, by Sarah Langford
The Earthbound Report 