Let’s Go Zero are currently recruiting a new climate action advisor to schools in the East of England area. That’s my team and I can attest to it being a great job. If you’re in the region, come and work with me. Here is the job description, and please spread the word.
Possible have been campaigning on private aviation and tax, and noted a small win in the recent budget. Here’s their article on what’s changed and what remains to be done.
Not something I’ve heard of before, but several Latin American countries have created legal protections for waves. Surf activism is a thing, apparently, and ecologists point out, if you’re protecting the waves you’re likely protecting the ecosystem as a whole.
I’ve been reading Andrew Boyd’s book I Want a Better Catastrophe recently, and while I have further questions, I really like the presentation of his climate flowchart.
Speaking of books, you’re down to the wire if you need anything from Earthbound Books before Christmas. First class post will get it to you if you need a gift, and I’ve even got some suggestions for things your climate friends will like.
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Can Germany phase out fossil fuels by 2045?
In writing about sustainability for two decades, I’ve read a few national climate declarations. Remember Sweden’s bid to be the first fossil-fuel free country by 2020? Neither do the Swedes, and 2020 came and went with the target long abandoned. Same with New Zealand’s ambition to be carbon neutral by 2025, which was announced in…
Possible’s new story about climate
“There’s a story being told about you, about what you need, about what you care about, about what’s possible,” begins the new video from Possible, one of my favourite climate charities. There is a prevailing narrative about climate change that it doesn’t matter to people, that it’s too expensive to do anything about, that it…
Book review: End Times Fascism, by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
End Times Fascism deserves some kind of award for the most depressing book title of the year. I’ll admit that my first reaction was ‘pass’, but I read a truly eye-watering book earlier this year called Promise me You’ll Shoot Yourself. Written by historian Florian Huber, it is compiled almost entirely from diary entries by…
