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The Shallows, by Nicholas Carr
The internet has been the defining technology of my generation. We grew up without it, but were the last generation to do so. It is now ubiquitous, deeply embedded in the way that we work, rest and...
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CarbonStory and complexities of online calculators
A few years ago I was trying to assess my carbon footprint, and had got conflicting advice on how big it actually was. I sat down on a rainy day and clicked my way through eight different online...
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Temperature records on Google Earth
This month global temperature records were added to Google Earth, making climate change data easy to view for anyone with an interest. The dataset used is land surface air temperature dataset CRUTEM4,...
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The Seven Deadly Sins of banking
All is not well in the City, and last week saw the latest in a string of banking scandals. Despite the regular declarations from the industry and their apologists, none of these scandals have seen any...
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Run your own carbon pathway
There are lots of different ways to decarbonise the economy, cut emissions and fend off dangerous climate change. Lots of different people have put forward strategies or scenarios for getting to...
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Cryptocurrencies for good
Since the release of BitCoin a few years ago, there has been an explosion of interest in alternative online currencies. A host of cryptocurrencies has followed, with dedicated exchanges, forums, apps,...
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Exploring Britain’s greenhouse gases
Last week the DECC updated their series of factsheets on Britain’s ‘greenhouse gas inventory’. It’s one of the ways we measure and report carbon, in this case for the UNFCC. If you need all the numbers...
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Is the world ready for a music streaming co-op?
Among the various personal interests that I don’t write about on the blog is music. I dabbled in music journalism during and shortly after my student years, traveling round the Midlands to review gigs...
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How the Refill app is cutting plastic use
I don’t know about you, but I’ve noticed a distinct uptick in the amount of attention plastic waste is getting. We’ve known about ocean plastics and recycling for years, but it suddenly seems to be on...
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The Ecological Footprint Explorer
The Global Footprint Network compiles the ecological footprint of over 200 countries every year, and it’s just launched a new interactive data platform for exploring the data. It maps ecological debtor...
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Dollar Street – how the world lives
This week I read Factfulness, by Hans Rosling and his regular collaborators, son Ola and daughter-in-law Anna Rosling Ronnland. Between them they founded the Gapminder foundation, and developed the...
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The Wellbeing Alliance is a new network that is bringing together organisations from around the world to focus on a wellbeing economy – one that sees the economy as a means to an end, that end being...
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