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August 20, 2024March 1, 2025Home decarbonisation project, Scotland

Unlocking Home Efficiency: The Value of Multiple Technologies

On 14 August, just a few days before the heat pump installation works started, I hopped on a train to Edinburgh to attend a free talk titled Unlocking Home Efficiency: The Value of Multiple Technologies, part of the week-long Green Home Festival

August 2, 2024March 1, 2025Sustainability topics, Sustainablog

Two films on rewilding

The 2023 State of Nature Report states that ‘the UK is now one of the most nature-depleted countries on Earth’ and facing a ‘biodiversity crisis’. It is not surprising then that interest in ecosystem restoration and the concept of rewilding is growing.

June 4, 2024March 1, 2025Sustainability topics

Book review: The Ministry for the Future

The Ministry for the Future by acclaimed science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson came out in 2020 when the world was still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic. The book has since won multiple awards and won a whole new readership for Robinson, including world leaders and climate activists who normally don’t have time for sci-fi as the world careens towards an all too real catastrophe. According to the cover blurb, it was one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2020.

May 23, 2024March 1, 2025Sustainability topics

Choose life

So in the UK, the prime minister has just called a general election to be held on the 4th of July. If you are eligible to vote in this coming UK general election, start looking at your candidates and their manifestos, and think climate

April 2, 2024March 1, 2025Sustainability topics

Exploring growth, degrowth and wellbeing economy

What is economic growth? Degrowth has become a buzzword of recent years. As we face the prospect of climate catastrophe and breaching of planetary boundaries, many people see the centrality of economic growth in our societies as the root cause of these problems, as well as the main impediment to solving them. If the pursuit of economic growth is pushing us to the precipice, is rejecting growth the answer? Or can we successfully recalibrate the growth paradigm instead?

December 17, 2023March 1, 2025Sustainability topics, Sustainablog

COP28: the elephant named

So, another year, another COP, another final text gavelled and filed away.

The FT’s headline reads “Countries reach ‘historic’ COP28 deal to transition from fossil fuels”, while the BBC chose “COP28: Landmark summit takes direct aim at fossil fuels”. Was it historic? A landmark?

November 1, 2023March 1, 2025Sustainability topics

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