It was World Glacier Day this week, not that the glaciers knew much about it. Qianggong Zhang writes about the state of the world’s glaciers at Dialogue Earth, and why they matter.
Sainsbury’s is trialling a scheme where food waste from its stores is turned into biofuel, which will power 30 trucks at one of their distribution centres.
Iran is almost always mentioned in the news for other reasons, so don’t miss this story: the country is in a drought so severe that it is at risk of ‘water bankruptcy’.
Possible have a petition to ask your MP to support policies for repair and reuse, as part of reducing consumption and moving towards a circular economy.
This week we had Aira in to complete our long-planned heat pump installation. We’re now gas-free and all electric as a household, and I’ll write more about that soon. In the meantime, here are the three articles from this week.
This week’s articles
Book review: Dark Laboratory, by Tao Leigh Goffe
Tao Leigh Goffe is a professor of cultural history and the founder of the multi-disciplinary arts collective Dark Laboratory. Her work explores the interconnections between race and climate, as does her book of the same title. The book looks mainly at the Caribbean, and how the legacy of plantation slavery echoes through the region’s experience…
Borrow Cup vs the coffee cup mountain
Do you remember the old days when a reusable cup was just called a cup? Now we have to be more specific, the rise of disposable drinkware coining a retronym. Disposable cups are now so ubiquitous that Britain gets through 2.5 billion of them a year, which is a bafflingly large number. Although many people…
A new age of solar for UK schools?
When I first heard about Labour’s plans to create a national energy company, inevitably called Great British Energy, I had one immediate thought: stick solar on schools. Also hospitals and public sector buildings generally. Start there, and a whole load of vital public services will get cheaper energy, saving taxpayers money and easing the stress…
The Earthbound Report 