Who do we exclude when we offer climate & sustainability training and engagement for citizens? Especially when many popular programmes – the Climate Fresk, or Carbon Literacy Training accredited by The Carbon Literacy Project or…
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California’s Valley Clean Infrastructure Plan repurposes fallow land into a 21 GW solar farm
A new initiative in California will repurpose farmland that is no longer able to sustain agriculture. The arid land will be used to build large solar farms, providing renewable energy to the grid instead of…
Food in the Anthropocene
Food. A gift and a challenge. Too cheap (considering effort, lives lost, practices, implications to humans, animals and the planet alike), and too expensive and limited (global poverty is real and millions have too little…
The problem with talking about “tipping points”
Climate communicators (myself included) use the term “tipping points” to talk about the thresholds beyond which the Earth’s systems switch into new states, often abruptly and irreversibly. The point about talking about tipping points is…
Does Space Need Environmentalists?
As humans “boldly go” (can’t beat a bit of Star Trek) space-wards to mine, settle and explore, Nathaniel Scharping asks whether we need a preemptive anti-mining campaign to protect our solar system from rampant exploitation…