After writing about global grids recently, here’s another update – a UK start-up planning a cable from Britain to Morocco was profiled in the Guardian this week.
Another story I’ve been following over the years is additives in cattle feed that can reduce bovine methane emissions. They took a big step forward recently when dairy corporation Arla announced a major trial, only for conspiracy theories to bloom online claiming that it was a Bill Gates depopulation plot. Sigh.
In other billionaire meat-bothering news, Jeff Bezos is spending $100 million to develop ‘alternative proteins’ to help reduce the impact of the meat industry.
Guess who scuppered the final round of talks on creating a global plastics treaty – fossil fuel producing countries of course.
Let’s Go Zero, which I’m working for three days a week, has been nominated as NGO of the year in the Edie Awards for sustainability.
Writing time continues to be elusive, with work and the building project, and I’ve also had a magazine feature to write this week on Japanese design aesthetics. But here are two posts, and since I didn’t publish a links round-up last weekend, I’ll add last week’s solitary article as well.
This week’s articles
How Climate Trace maps global emissions
In order to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, we need to know where they occur. The richer our understanding of emissions, the more targeted we can be in our actions. We can identify the biggest sources and prioritise. That’s easier said than done, because working out carbon footprints can be complicated. It’s especially difficult to…
The UK’s first net zero college
As I’m spending so much of my time helping educational institutions get to net zero, I’m always looking out for people who have already done it. There are a handful of schools that have reached zero emissions, and Wolfson College in Oxford claim to be the first to achieve it in higher education. Oxford colleges…
The return of the battery train
This year there have been two new battery train trials operating in the UK. Great Western Railway has been running a commuter train on a fast-charging battery on a branch line in Ealing, and Hitachi have just tested a hybrid inter-city diesel with an onboard battery. It’s part of global wave of interest in batteries…
The Earthbound Report 