Climate change action - what the science says we need to do
I’ve been reading a lot recently about how our rapidly growing reliance on web apps is using more resources and impacting on climate change. At the same time, the usual questions that I always have around “how much is down to me?” and “what can I do about it?” seem to go unanswered. Heck, it’s […]
My previous post on whether it was necessary to give up meat and dairy to tackle climate change produced a pretty adverse reaction from some of my vegan and vegetarian friends. It was never my intention to upset anyone, and I apologise unreservedly if I did. I feel that the message has got lost in the […]
This week saw the publication of new research on the global impact of farming methods. It’s a serious, in-depth study that underlines not only the contribution of farming to climate change, but also its wider impact on water, land and air. It highlights the devastating and rapidly growing environmental cost of beef and dairy farming […]
Syria has been in the news almost constantly over the past seven years as the scene of many atrocities and endless suffering. The early uprisings of the ‘Arab Spring’ – against brutal government actions and the spiralling cost of living – quickly developed into all out civil war, with international support for both sides from […]
April was a pretty unremarkable month from a cash and carbon point of view. But the big news is that I finally got round to switching from my long-term green energy supplier, Good Energy, to Bulb. The reasons were mostly financial – Bulb charge quite a lot less per unit of energy whilst using 100% […]
