The Wildlife Trusts have published a plan for returning wild beavers to England and Wales, after successful re-introductions in Scotland. Beavers have been absent from England for over 400 years.
GoCompare has created a calculator to see how much charging an EV costs for a year. Unless you charge entirely at motorway service stations, fuel costs will almost always be lower than petrol or diesel.
An interesting study on language from the US: researchers found that familiarity is important and so people are more likely to respond to ‘climate change’ than ‘climate crisis’, ’emergency’ or ‘climate justice’.
In a shortsighted money-saving move, the government has cut the Restoring Your Railway fund, set up in 2020 to restore train connections lost during the Beeching era. The Campaign for Better Transport is pressing them to reverse the decision.
Links to this week’s articles below – but first, a new book service that you should know about.
Recycle your books with BookLoop
One for the readers among you – Bookshop.org have just launched a new book recycling service called Bookloop. They will buy back your good quality books when you’re done with them, and supply them to secondhand bookshops. You’ll get paid in store credit which you can spend at Earthbound Books. Or anywhere else on Bookshop.org, of course.
I tried it out this morning to see how it works, and it’s very straightforward. You enter an ISBN and it offers you a price. Hardbacks and newer titles fetched better offers. A couple of older paperbacks were refused as their resale price would be too low or they had too many in stock already. I packed up six books, worth £16, into a box. I printed and affixed the label for free DPD delivery and dropped it off at the cornershop. Job done and I’d recommend it if you have good quality books to pass on.
This week’s articles
Greening the city with moss walls
In the Ashden offices in London there’s a living green wall in reception. It’s a tradition for new members of staff to have their picture taken in front of the moss wall. Moss walls aren’t just for interior design talking points however. A blanket of moss on an external wall serves as a sound baffle…
Are road markings a source of plastic pollution?
In a training session recently, we were talking about plastic pollution, and I saw something on a graph that I hadn’t noticed before. Here’s a similar graph from the Seas at Risk campaign, showing the main sources of microplastics. It’s the yellow curve above that jumped out to me: road markings. It hadn’t occurred to…
Luton Airport ads banned for forgetting the planes
Here’s a story that’s been in my backlog after a very busy July, so you might have heard about this already. I wanted to cover it anyway because there are some useful lessons to note from it. In case you missed it, a few weeks ago the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banned an advertising campaign…
The Earthbound Report 