My friend and co-author Katherine Trebeck has been writing about the role of compassion in a new economy, an important angle on the wellbeing economics that she has pioneered.
Drawdown has added more jobs to their project on climate solutions at work, showing how you don’t have to be fitting solar panels or planting trees to have a ‘green job’.
Flight Free is a small charity that relies entirely on small donations, and that is running its annual fundraising week right now. Can you chip in to their important work?
Another small charity working on a very specific thing is Butterfly Conservation. Their annual butterfly count has found fewer butterflies than ever before, with 9,000 participants having no sightings to report.
I wrote recently about how Elon Musk has rowed back on his original vision for Tesla, which was still on the website. Well, now it’s not. The company quietly deleted his ‘master plan’ last month.
Writing time is in short supply at the moment as every waking hour is going into preparing for a new building project on the back of the house. (It’s currently hailing and the hail is falling inside the lean-to, so it’s long overdue.) I might get a bit more time in a couple of weeks, but excuse my relative silence in the meantime.
This week’s articles
Which climate policies actually work?
Around five years ago now there was an explosion of net zero declarations. After years of stalling and ‘I will if you will’ negotiations, suddenly a string of countries were prepared to commit. Climate emergencies were declared across governments, cities and businesses. Setting a target is only step one of course. After that you need…
Co-designing greener fashion with Unfolded
The fashion industry is a low profile climate conundrum. While all the attention goes on big ticket carbon problems like power stations and cars, the clothing industry has a big enough carbon footprint to derail the world’s climate targets all by itself. A commonly cited figure is 8-10% of global emissions, once you add up…
The Earthbound Report 