A useful example of a successful climate justice court case: the government of the Netherlands has been ordered to develop a climate protection plan for the Carribean island of Bonaire.
Electric cars outsold petrol cars in the EU last year, though hybrids remain the most popular category. This is also true in China, by the way.
I’m working on summer overheating in schools, and it’s also a problem in children’s hospital wards, with very real affects on health outcomes. Sheffield University has just announced a 10 month study of the problem to understand it better and identify the best solutions.
I haven’t written much about alternative currencies recently as the movement kind of withered in the UK, but it remains a worthwhile idea when done right. Here’s a white paper from the Schwab Foundation on how to create a regenerative monetary system based around impact banking rather than interest.
Climate journalist Emily Atkin writes about how she keeps going on the climate beat while the US slips into fascism. It’s a tricky one. I’ve wrestled with these sorts of questions, and it was a live issue for many climate folks around Gaza as well as Trump’s excesses.
On a similar note, I was reflecting on how bad news finds us whether we want it or not, while good news easily passes us by. We have to go looking for it, be purposeful about seeking it out, and that’s something I try and do on this website and in this weekly roundup. I was looking for an image that fit that general idea, and hence the lookout tower above, a photograph from Ayla Meinberg. Sometimes it feels like I write from that sort of place. It’s a little rickety and needs to be held up with cables, but I’m going to keep climbing up here and telling you what I can see – not in denial of those dark clouds, but in spite of them.
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Hi Jeremy,
I can’t work out how to comment on your blogs so am hoping this works as a way to say THANK YOU!! I’ve been reading your blogs as emails for a few years now and they are the best thing that arrives in my inbox. And i felt like it would fit with your ethos to write and tell you. I love your balanced, sensible writing and the niche areas you write about which i always find so interesting when i never even they knew existed. It is a burst of positivity and I really think they help me maintain my positive outlook on life.
Thanks so much again Cath