Chris Hatch at Covering Climate Now writes about something I’d noticed: Mark Carney was very forward thinking on climate change while at the Bank of England, and seems to have forgotten all about it as Prime Minister of Canada.
More evidence that if you’re losing farmland to solar farms, you’re doing it wrong. The biggest agrivoltaic project in Italy has just opened. It’s called Big Fish, it’s paid for by Amazon, and it has the panels mounted on three metre gantries so that farming can carry on underneath.
It is now more expensive to hire an oil tanker to sail from the US to China than it is to send a rocket into space, according to Bloomberg. It’s $80 million for the tanker, up from $17 million before Trump’s attack on Iran. It’s $74 million for a SpaceX launch.
Brian Obara describes a nice participative design project from Kenya, where architects worked with residents to come up with new ideas for homes that stayed cooler and kept out mosquitos.
Friends of the Earth are hiring a community organiser for Luton, and should you be interested, you have three days left to get a job application in.
Recent highlights
Mapping heat for a more resilient Brighton
Britain experienced its hottest ever summer this year, pending end-of-year verification. While you can never really point at something and say definitively that it is climate change, the Met Office tells us that climate change made this summer 130 times more likely, which is as good as you’re going to get. Climate change is transforming…
BlueCity’s circular economy hub
I’m reading a book at the moment called Don’t Build, Rebuild, by Aaron Betsky, all about reusing buildings in a circular economy. It’s taking me ages to get through because every couple of pages there’s an example that I can’t resist looking up on the internet before I read on. This has proved unusually distracting,…
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…
