I’ve written before about how Germany introduced a rail subscription to make trains cheaper and encourage more sustainable transport – rail travel rose 28% in response. Greenpeace are backing a similar scheme for the UK, and it’s detailed in their report Fare Britannia.
African owned solar companies are among the fastest growing on the continent, and several get a mention in this article from Associated Press.
Possible are inviting people to email their MP about getting a frequent flyer levy into the Autumn budget. It’s a practical and fair way to price in the damage of aviation without stopping anyone from flying when they need to.
One for the unpopular opinion file: Emma Bryce on the problematic downsides of beach cleans and ocean cleanups.
The MET Office has declared September to be the wettest month ever recorded in Bedfordshire, so I literally could not have picked a less convenient time to have builders dig foundations outside my back door.
This week’s articles
Triodos, the postgrowth bank
Banking isn’t a sector generally associated with postgrowth thinking, but then Triodos isn’t a typical bank. This summer they became the first bank to declare its support for a postgrowth transition, which they describe as “transforming our societies in such a way that we are no longer reliant on perpetual economic expansion to be (socially)…
The Heat Will Kill You First, by Jeff Goodell
I didn’t understand sea level rise until I read Jeff Goodell’s last book, The Water Will Come. I understood the science and the logic of it. What I hadn’t grasped was how it would appear it as happened, how it would bubble up from the drains, how it would be priced into home insurance, or…
The man with the largest negative carbon footprint?
If you had to guess, which living person would you say has made the single biggest difference to reducing carbon emissions? There are some figures in politics or activism who might come to mind. Al Gore got a Nobel prize for his contribution, though we might want to argue about that. Perhaps we could consider…
The Earthbound Report 