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Picturing where microplastics come from

Here’s an image I came across on social media recently that I found useful. Yes really, something useful on social media. That doesn’t happen often anymore, though I should point out that it was LinkedIn, which used to be the most boring and staid of all social media platforms and now feels like the only one that’s still worthwhile. It’s an image from the infographics newslet...


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Osmosis, the other other renewable energy

I’ve been writing about renewable energy for twenty years, and just this week discovered that there’s a whole other kind that I didn’t know about. This is the climate nerd equivalent of my daughter finding a new Pokemon.

Usually when we’re talking about renewable energy, it’s wind and solar that come to mind. Biomass is the sullen sibling in the big three, generati...


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Easy energy comparisons

Back when the climate movement was young, we got a lot of tips for cutting carbon with very little context around them. My personal favourite was at LiveEarth, where celebrities offered their favourite eco actions. One of them was to switch off your phone charger at the wall when you’re done. This was recommended to a global audience of millions, despite the fact that if you ...


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It’s not solar that competes with farmland

One of the big hesitations around solar farms is that they take up land that could be used for food production. It’s an argument that’s made by climate sceptics who oppose renewable energy, but those on the green side of the equation worry about it too. My response has always been that if you’re displacing food production for solar, you’re doing it wrong.


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Catch up with Luton’s green schools

I don’t post many local stories, but here’s a little video featuring some of my work in the last couple of years in Luton’s schools. The Climate Action Teacher Champions (CATCH) programme was set up by Luton Council and local partners. I was involved in the pilot scheme and worked with the five cohorts of schools, 33 in total. Participating teachers took part in training sess...


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