Last year I wrote about Nice Rice, who have centred their rice brand on sustainable rice intensification. Wildfarmed are doing something similar with wheat, making it possible for consumers to choose bread and other foods produced through regenerative agriculture.
Speaking of agriculture, there’s an urban farming boom going on in Indonesia, where 500 new farms were started in 2024 alone. Not something I’d heard about until I read about it in this article on The Xylom.
I was at an event with Apps for Good on Friday, meeting teams of young people who were pitching the social impact apps that they were developing. A really interesting charity that I’d encourage readers in education to take a look at – they do free computing lessons and competitions for schools.
The Chinese government has announced that installed wind and solar capacity has overtaken coal power for the first time. This sounds like a milestone but is meaningless until coal power actually starts falling. Only then will a genuine energy transition be underway in China, rather than layering a renewable energy system on top of a fossil fuelled one.
Unexpectedly busy week last week and I didn’t get any new posts written. But as I didn’t write a weekly round-up last weekend, here are the latest three articles:
Latest articles
Book review: Climate Injustice, by Friedericke Otto
Friedericke Otto is a German climatologist who is best known for her work on climate attribution science. This is the science of assessing natural disasters and determining to what extent they have been caused by climate change. That is explained in her previous book Angry Weather, which hinted at how this new science could be…
Climate coverage for the 89%
A couple of months ago I wrote about the perception gap on climate change: the vast majority of people support climate action, but think that others don’t. A global study found that 89% of those polled wanted a stronger response to climate change. When asked how many of their fellow citizens wanted the same thing,…
Let’s Go Zero: delivering climate action in schools
It was Earth Day this week, which usually brings on a repetitive strain injury from hitting the delete button on the deluge of eco themed press releases that hit my inbox this time every year. This April there was one I was rather looking forward to sharing however, and that’s the impact report from Let’s…
The Earthbound Report 