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Experts’ Advice: Steps You Can Take to Tackle Climate Breakdown
After any conversation about the climate crisis, most people ask (or should ask) “What can I do?”. According to climate scientist and communicator Katharine Hayhoe, if you’ve had a conversation like this, you’ve already done a lot.…
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London National Park City | Get Involved and Celebrate
The attempt to create a national park city in one of the UK’s most dense, polluted and crowded urban centers has been taking shape nicely over the last few years, with a lot of help from a…
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How to Reduce Your Internet Carbon Footprint
About three years ago, I found out that the internet has a carbon footprint. While browsing, I clicked on an article about Bitcoin and discovered that mining cryptocurrencies uses unfathomable amounts of energy. In fact, it uses…
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The #FlyLess and #NoFly Movements | Would You Stop Flying If You Knew Its True Cost?
Let’s kick off with the good news: In the last few months people have started important conversations about the climate crisis. Some have even taken it to the next level and started walking the talk by making…
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GDP Alternatives: 7 Ways to Measure a Country’s Wealth
Economists and politicians across the globe use Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the ultimate yardstick for measuring and ranking countries’ wealth. But as more and more economists begin to question GDP’s true worth, there are growing calls…
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Magic and the Machine: Notes on Technology and Animism in an Age of Ecological Wipeout
A hallmark of the puzzling era we’re now living through is a remarkable juxtaposition of two apparently contrary trends. In many social circles, there exists a buoyant sense of possibility, an upbeat and expectant optimism with regard…
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Radical Mindfulness: Zen Teachings for Challenging Times – Transcript
This is a transcript of “Radical Mindfulness: Zen Teachings for Challenging Times” – a talk offered by Plum Village monastics trained by peace activist and renowned author, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. The event took place at…
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Why ‘Net Zero Emissions by 2050’ Needs a Green New Deal
I remember the days when months would go by without anything much happening about climate change at all. Thinkers and doers called for stuff, politicians occasionally did a few things, but you could go on holiday for…
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Don’t Snooze This Alarm | Book Review: The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells
The alarm bells have been ringing for a while; at first sounded by well-meaning yet powerless scientists, then the activists chimed in, and more recently even the very young are joining the protests, marches, civil disobedience movements…
