I was never very far from a rice paddy where I grew up, farmed the traditional (and exhausting) way. So it’s interesting to see how rice farmers in Vietnam are using new tools such as AI and drones.
My wife was assigned the news story and I was puzzled by it, and so there’s been quite a lot of discussion in my house this week about Britain’s high speed rail line HS2 and why a tunnel to protect bats somehow costs £100 million.
Great to see that Britain’s first major low carbon heat network will be so high profile: drawing heat from the river Thames and the London Underground and using it to heat the Houses of Parliament – and a thousand other buildings in central London.
Ellen MacArthur and Christiana Figueres explain why we’re at a key moment for a Global Plastics Treaty in Fortune magazine.
Roam is a pioneering electric motorbike company based in Kenya. I was pleased to see an opportunity to invest in them come up on Energise Africa, so I have. Perhaps you’d like to join me.
A lot has happened this week. Some of it you know about, some I’ll tell you about another time. So I only had time for two articles this week and I suspect next week will be the same.
This week’s articles
Isn’t it time British Gas rebranded?
Last week I had British Gas round to inspect my home’s old gas boiler, which happens every year as part of the home insurance package we have with them. It’s probably the last time it will happen, as we hope to have an air source heat pump in place by next winter. But it made…
Futures of the Sun, by Imre Szeman
Over the past 200 years, political power has become deeply entwined with fossil fuels. The energy transition is now troubling the peace, and those alliances are shifting. As renewable energy takes over from fossil fuels, there is a tug-of-war underway to control the narrative. There are already competing stories, “each trying to be the first…
The Earthbound Report 