Good lives on our one planet
In January I suggested that solar cars, which I consider to be the gold standard of private motoring, would come out of the majority world rather than big legacy Western companies. Thai company Solarky are the latest, reviewed here by Everything Electric. Out to prove me wrong are Nissan, who recently announced that they are [ ]
Octopus, the UK s leading green energy supplier, recently announced a move into trucking. Partnering with Chinese battery company CATL, they re planning a network of battery swapping stations for trucks. It will be called Swaptopus of course it will and the first one will open next year. Eventually there will be a network of [ ]
Last week I wrote about the expansion of Luton Airport and the vast increase in emissions that would come with it. This week I thought I d post something more solutions-focused about aviation. The government is will do anything for economic growth and won t stand in the way of growth in flying. That puts the attention [ ]
This week the UK s Supreme Court waved away the last remaining opportunity to halt the expansion of Luton Airport. With all legal options exhausted, it will now go ahead with its plans to double passenger numbers to 32 million a year by the early 2040s. The court are the latest in a long line of [ ]
Watching the World Cup this summer, I couldn t help but notice the ads for AI. They were everywhere, most prominently in the form of Google Gemini as the lead sponsor of ITV s coverage in the UK. It didn t seem to matter that there was no link between Gemini and football, we were still encouraged to [ ]
Andy Burnham has become Britain s new Prime Minister, promising to put a laser-like focus on growth . It s a full reset from his predecessor Keir Starmer, who told the country that the defining mission of this government is to grow the economy. Keir replaced Rishi Seven Bins Sunak, whose advice was to relentlessly focus on growth . [ ]
France made planned obsolescence illegal as part of its push for a circular economy, and Epson are the first company to go to court over it. It is claimed their (already criminally overpriced) printer cartridges stop working before they have run out of ink. A map showing legislation for balcony solar in each US state, [ ]
It s no great secret that climate change is predominantly caused by the world s richest. Carbon footprint tends to expand along with wealth, as people fly and drive, eat more meat and run more appliances. It s no surprise that other environmental limits see a similar pattern. A study in Nature offers this useful visual summary of [ ]
This was the year that we saw the world s first trillionaire, a state of imbalance so absurd that it really ought to rewrite how we talk about inequality. I don t see any sign of that yet, but this book might have one practical and popular answer: tax billionaires. An important thing to note here: first, [ ]
A study of four decades of news articles in America found that climate change accounts for 0.55% of news coverage, and has risen from silence to a whisper in the at time. Belgium is the first country to appoint a Chief Planetary Officer, a role designed to bring Planetary Boundaries science directly into national decision-making, [ ]
Among the most important questions to ask of a new technology are these: who controls it? And who does it serve? With many leading AI applications, the answer to both is simple the richest. But that s not inevitable, and so I enjoyed hearing about Ashden Award winner Frontier Markets. Frontier Markets is a social [ ]
It s fifty years since the famous 1976 heatwave which broke records as the driest and hottest British summer of the 20th century. From a weather perspective it was a true freak occurrence, and it s left a lasting legacy. Some of that is benign lots of people have very happy memories of an endless summer . [ ]