The Earthbound Report

A few years ago there was a flurry of internet hype about solar roadways – imagine a world where roads generated power for the streetlights!

“We should not construct new buildings from scratch,” says the first line of Aaron Betsky’s Don’t Build, Rebuild.

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.

Britain experienced its hottest ever summer this year, pending end-of-year verification.

I’m reading a book at the moment called Don’t Build, Rebuild, by Aaron Betsky, all about reusing buildings in a circular economy.

In writing about sustainability for two decades, I’ve read a few national climate declarations.

“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.

End Times Fascism deserves some kind of award for the most depressing book title of the year.

Trump’s war in Iran has driven a decline in gas and oil demand, and even with a rise in coal use in some places, global emissions from fossil fuels are expected to fall by 0.5% this year.

Regenerative agriculture is an approach to farming that maintains and even enhances nature.

Earlier this year the Climate Change Committee, the UK’s climate advisory body, published a report on adaptation.

Much rejoicing from geography nerds around the world as the UN voted to formally retire the Mercator map of the earth in favour of the Equal Earth projection.

Air conditioning was drawn into the culture wars this summer in the UK, joining a long list of things to be angry about, alongside flags, pronouns and National Trust scones.

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about why the age of solar power is here.

Books on climate change have gone through several phases over the last twenty years.

If you asked me to name some forested countries, I’d think of Canada and Russia, Scandinavia, Brazil.

I’ve always enjoying seeing neighbouring houses with solar panels, and knowing that one person’s actions have inspired those around them.

This week I read about a 70MW solar farm that has just opened in Lapland in Northern Finland.

In January I suggested that solar cars, which I consider to be the gold standard of private motoring, would come out of the majority world rather than big legacy Western companies.

Octopus, the UK’s leading green energy supplier, recently announced a move into trucking.

Last week I wrote about the expansion of Luton Airport and the vast increase in emissions that would come with it.

This week the UK’s Supreme Court waved away the last remaining opportunity to halt the expansion of Luton Airport.