I came across the Missing Lynx Project this week, which is campaigning for the reintroduction of the Lynx to Northumberland and the Scottish borders and is worth commending for the name alone.
Carbon in Context is a new comparison tool from Project Drawdown. Tonnes of gas is an unintuitive way of measuring anything, so stick the figures into the search box and it’ll tell you what that means in a variety of more tangible metrics, such as cups of coffee or a Golden Gate Bridge worth of steel.
The Japanese Meteorological Agency has held a survey to decide what to call the 40C+ temperatures the country has been experiencing during a record breaking hot summer, settling on the term kokushobi.
There aren’t a great number of people who would be interested in reading about changes in China’s plastic packaging standards as the country shifts towards a circular economy. But you know who you are and I’m with you.
After pitching multiple fiction and non-fiction book ideas over the last couple of years and getting nowhere, I appear to have something that’s generating some early interest. Anything other than a straight no is worth pursuing at a time of polycrisis in publishing, so that’s taking priority with my writing time at the moment and hence fewer blog posts while I finish a second draft.
Recent highlights
The invisible leaders on clean energy
Last week I received a press release titled ‘the countries leading the world in clean electricity’. Like most of the press emails I get, it was a list put together to generate links rather than present new information, and so I won’t name the website involved. It did get my attention though, and not for…
The emerging story of citizenship
If you’re not familiar with Enter Shikari, they’re a band from my hometown and the most badass thing to happen in St Albans since Boudicca sacked the Roman city of Verulamium in 61AD. Not the kind of thing I generally write about on the blog, but there’s a song on their new album that caught…
Polestar’s progress on a zero carbon car
In 2022 I wrote about how Swedish EV brand Polestar had committed to creating a zero carbon car. Note that this isn’t a ‘net zero’ car, but a truly zero carbon process from start to finish. It was industry-leading in its ambition, and also the kind of thing that some companies make a big noise…
The Earthbound Report 