With the government banging the drum for airport expansion to deliver economic growth, the Green Alliance explains how investing in buses and trains could achieve the same thing quicker and without the carbon emissions.
Have you heard of parametric insurance? I hadn’t, and I was interested to see how this alternative insurance model is being used to respond quicker to natural disasters.
China has opened a hydrogen trucking corridor, with hydrogen refuelling stations available to trucks travelling between Chongqing to Qinzhou.
A different kind of corridor is taking shape in LA, where the world’s largest wildlife bridge is being built across the city’s busiest highway. It will allow animals to cross the ten lane highway safely and reduce the risk of collisions.
The number of homes in the UK that overheat in the summer has soared in the last decade. The higher the energy rating, the more likely they are to overheat, so this is something we need to keep in mind as we retrofit our housing stock.
It’s been a quiet couple of weeks for me on the writing front, with some time away over Easter and some re-ordering of the house as our building project is almost complete. Looking forward to doing a bit more writing soon, but in the meantime here are this week’s two posts:
This week’s articles
UK emissions have fallen to Victorian levels
Carbon Brief have released another update to what has become one of my favourite graphs: the graph of the UK’s falling carbon emissions. The downward curve continues, past the hiccup of the post-Covid bounce-back and onwards towards zero. As Carbon Brief highlight, emissions in 2024 were the same as the down-spike of the general strike…
Book review: The 15 Minute City, by Carlos Moreno
In the past, all cities were 15 minute cities. They were compact and human scaled. They were entirely walkable, because the proverbial shoe-cart was the only mode of transport available. Proximity was a necessity, and citizens would naturally expect to find their work and their home, the market or a place of worship within a…
The Earthbound Report 