Storing heat to use it later is a unusual but clearly very useful idea, so I’m interested in anything that makes it easier – like these bricks being developed by MIT.
It’s an older article, but I enjoyed reading it this week after it came up in a presentation: a study that shows how children change their parents’ minds on climate change.
The presentation in which this came up was, by the way, from Larger Us. They did a training afternoon for our team of climate action advisors at work, all about having better conversations about climate change. It was very good, and if you work in the field, you might also find it useful.
As Keir Starmer of the Labour party shoehorns growth into every interview he does, the New Economics Podcast asks should we be going for growth?
This week I had to turn down a press invite for the launch of the world’s most efficient domestic solar panel, as the event was inconveniently in Germany and I was busy. But I’m pleased to see it: the industry has been talking for years about the potential of perovskite solar PV panels, and here they are.
Isabella Tree bestselling book Wilding, about rewilding the Knepp Estate, is now a documentary. Scroll on down for the trailer and look out for it in cinemas right now.
This week’s articles
Book review: Left Behind, by Paul Collier
In the 90s there was a proselytising novel called Left Behind that was very popular in American evangelical circles, all about how the faithful would be raptured into heaven as the planet collapsed behind them. This is not that book. This is about Paul Collier’s Left Behind, an altogether more useful book that might make…
The culture of waste in fossil fuels
Looking at the world around us, it can be hard to imagine ever transitioning beyond fossil fuels. In a zero carbon world, every car and bus and train is electric. All heating is electric, all industry and aviation. It’s hard to believe that we can ever build enough renewable energy to meet all of those…
Why do so many British schools look the same?
When I moved to the UK as a teenager, I enrolled at the local college to do my A levels. I found the building ugly, uninspiring and decrepit, and they’ve since knocked it down and built expensive flats on the site. But I couldn’t help noticing that the high schools I could have gone to…
- Book review: Left Behind, by Paul Collier
- The culture of waste in fossil fuels
- Why do so many British schools look the same?
The Earthbound Report 