A recent episode of The Climate Alarm Clock podcast raises some excellent questions about why climate adaptation isn't currently being focussed on as much as climate mitigation, and why this is a bad idea.
Reasons To Be Cheerful published an interesting piece about migratory beekeepers in Yemen that move their hives to track the blooming seasons of the Sidr flower to produce the expensive Sidr honey. Practising migratory beekeeping increases the population of bees, but is not without its challenges from climate change, Malaria pesticide spraying, and illegal Sidr tree logging.
University College London published a detailed map of all the wood burners in England & Wales using data from Energy Performance Certificates (EPC). In 2022, domestic stoves produced 21.6% of UK PM 2.5 air pollution emissions, more than all road transport emissions.
By Land And Sea is a great new website with lots of information about how to travel to and from Ireland, the UK, and Europe by ferry, rail, bus, and active travel, instead of flying in order to reduce emissions.
Heatmap produced a useful and award-winning website with guides on how to decarbonise areas of your life, from your car, house efficiency and heating, travel, and food.
Wired published a fascinating piece about Virgil Dupras, a Canadian programmer that is working on Forth and Collapse OS, a low level postfix programming language and an operating system for 8-bit controllers. The idea of both is to allow civilisation to utilise and program any remaining tech more easily after the end of days.
MIT's Cloan School of Management published a post describing the different ways a company can create business value with digital sustainability, including driving efficiency, attracting talent, working towards company goals, and improved customer reputation.
The excellent The Climate Alarm Clock podcast released a great summary episode describing what climate change is, what is being done and what is not being done, why it's important to work on climate action, and very importantly, why it's ok to feel a range of emotions about the situation. A great listen.
UK company Flint Engineering have developed a new efficient energy transfer mat based on heat pipe principles that can be used to distribute and remove heat evenly across a surface with negligable loss. The ISOMat has many applications, such as cooling EV batteries, making produce fridges 30% more energy efficient, and even as heating or cooling panels for buildings.
Power Roll have developed a new version of their flexible solar panels which can be more easily and more cheaply manufactured and "rolled out", with the aim of producing solar everywhere for everyone.
