April 2024

Thanks to NAEE for the link to the Labour Party's ideas on schools, underwhelming though they are.  They read like the jottings of an intern sitting in one of Ed & Bridget's decaf coffee breaks. A lot of hope is...

When we bought our electric car in 2014, no one explained that it wouldn't be able to go as far as promised in Winter or when it was cold in Spring or Autumn.  Being charitable, I'm assuming that the retailer...

It's a commonplace claim that the realisation of commercial nuclear fusion reactors is always around 20 years away.  It seems to be no different today despite the huge increase in private sector cash flowing into development.  What I didn't realise...

Did you see that Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, told an audience in London: “We have two years to save the world.”  I didn't and am grateful to Dominic Lawson in  The Times...

Here's a rather impassioned article from the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit [ECIU] about the significance of the UK's ~1% on-shore [*] contribution to global emissions.  It's the Tesco argument. It essentially says that although 1% is small compared with...

Our World in Data [OWD] reports that a 2024 study in Nature Climate Change asked around 130,000 people if they’d be willing to give at least 1% of their income to tackle climate change, and that, across a 125-country sample,...

Did you see the launch last week of the  ‘tracked changes’ sustainability review – The Primary Curriculum for a Changing Climate – by academics, teachers, and teacher educators?  This is the project's latest phase. We heard from students, teachers, and...

The recent news that raccoons were on the loose in the UK reminded me of a story from last year which was based on an article for The Conversation by Tara Pirie from the University of Surrey: Wild animals that...