WWF have released the latest edition of their Living Planet Report, which says that the average size of wildlife populations has fallen by 73% since 1970.
Amazon have announced that they’re supporting the development of small nuclear modular reactors as part of their sustainability plans. Google picked the same week to announce that they too were betting on small reactors, with a purchasing agreement to supply power for its AI systems.
Greenpeace are running a petition to introduce a one-off wealth tax on the very rich, which they’re calling a National Renewal Tax.
It may only be moss, but the amount of vegetation in Antarctica is steadily growing.
Did you hear about the car parts factory in Florence where the workers were made redundant, but refused to leave? They have occupied the factory and want to transition to making e-bikes, with support from trade unions and the climate movement. I heard about them from Safe Landing, and here’s their website (mostly in Italian).
This week’s articles
Book review: Fire Weather, by John Vaillant
Fort McMurray is the heart of Canada’s tar sands production, a remote and wealthy boom-town that grew rapidly in the Alberta forest in the early to mid 2000s. With higher oil prices making the tar sands profitable, there was lots of well paying work, despite it being one of the most damaging environmental projects on…
Should we welcome the return of CCS?
“We have found that carbon capture and storage in the North Sea can reduce emissions from gas and coal power stations by up to 90%,” said the Labour chancellor. “So we are today publishing proposals for industry wide consultation to move this important environmental advance from research to commercial development.” The chancellor in question was…
How to recycle a solar panel
A few years ago now I had the opportunity to take part in a solar PV workshop where we made our own solar panels. It was a painstaking process of soldering together individual solar cells, which are wafer thin and extremely fragile. Then they were smothered in glue and pressed under a sheet of rainproof…
The Earthbound Report 
Shocking news espcailly the fall in wildlife populations, already we boycott Amazon, and have been growing in cornern re Google.