The environment

2024-11-22: 📚 Finished listening to Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn.

Regime of Unreason: The US surely couldn’t need any ‘liberalisation’ of its fossil fuel regulations when it’s already a net exporter of energy.

Yelling at clouds: ‘The Cloud’ might feel like magic but we must remember that it has a real material footprint and consequent impact.

Labour to commit almost £22bn to carbon capture and storage projects: Glad to see them putting serious investment into something ‘environmental’, tho I don’t know enough about the technology to know if this is is the best option.

Do you really need a new phone every 2 years? How to get more out of your devices: If you must upgrade there are several options beyond throwing your old phone away.

Repairing – not recycling – is the first step to tackling smartphone e-waste: Reusing and repairing your old phone is much better for the environment than recycling it.

2024-06-08: A calculator to quickly compare the energy costs of using different types of appliances

2024-05-10: Hundreds of IPCC scientists think we'll being living in an environmental semi-dystopia by the end of the century

2024-04-15: US regulators introduce a law to limit the levels of PFAS present in drinking water

2024-03-28: ‘Refugee Astronaut III’, from a recent visit to the Wellcome Collection’s …

2024-03-27: The benefits of eating snakes

2024-01-25: This (taken from some random Discord if I remember correctly) might be a little simplistic in some …

2024-01-15: Mis- and dis-information are the biggest immediate threats to the world according to the WEF

2023-12-04: The world is on track for a “hellish” 3C of global heating, the UN has warned. Apparently our …

2023-08-12: Please let's not fight the next election on who can damage the environment the most

2023-07-31: A new paper re-affirms that plant-based diets are far less damaging to the environment