There can be no net zero without nature. Each year, the planet’s oceans, forests, soils and other natural carbon sinks absorb about half of all human emissions. They feature in dozens of national plans to limit global heating to below 2C. This week, however, the scientific architects of net zero have a warning: you haveContinue reading “NET ZERO MEANINGLESS WITHOUT NATURE’s SUPPORT”
Author Archives: Steve Martin
THE URGENT NEED FOR AN ACADEMIC REVOLUTION IN OUR UNIVERSITIES
By NICHOLAS MAXWELL- PHILOSOPHER We might put the matter like this. Humanity faces two fundamental problems of learning: learning about the universe and us and other forms of life as a part of the universe; and learning how to create a genuinely good, civilized, wise world. We have solved the first problem of learning. WeContinue reading “THE URGENT NEED FOR AN ACADEMIC REVOLUTION IN OUR UNIVERSITIES”
TRANSFORMATIVE SKILLS GUIDE
I have written recently that we need a transformative system -wide change process across our education and learning programmes and institutions to tackle the wicked global issues we face. This recently published Skills Guide puts some astonishingly accessible and credible ways to achieve this transformation. It deals with inner skills such as “thinking ,relating, collaboratingContinue reading “TRANSFORMATIVE SKILLS GUIDE”
TRANSFORMING OUR UNIVERSITIES TO MEET THE ISSUES OF THE 21 CENTURY?
How can we overcome our blindness to what is now right before our eyes: heat, storms, fires, floods, desecrated lands, extinctions, and social injustices and what these portend for their lives. Young people are now recognising that there needs to be more urgency and social focus in our educational systems and crucially we need toContinue reading “TRANSFORMING OUR UNIVERSITIES TO MEET THE ISSUES OF THE 21 CENTURY?”
WHY ARE SOLAR PANELS CHEAPER IN GERMANY
BY David Toke Germany is issuing much larger volumes of auctioned contracts for large-scale solar pv and renewable energy this year compared to the UK, but what is especially notable is the ever-plunging prices for solar pv. These continue to fall well below the prices at which the Government is awarding contracts to solar farmsContinue reading “WHY ARE SOLAR PANELS CHEAPER IN GERMANY”
The Big Thing Making Hurricane Helene Dangerous Helene’s winds stretch close to 500 miles across. That’s half the width of the entire Gulf of Mexico.
COLLEEN HAGERTY • SEPTEMBER 27, 2024 The Big Thing Making Hurricane Helene Dangerous Helene’s winds stretch close to 500 miles across. That’s half the width of the entire Gulf of Mexico. COLLEEN HAGERTY • SEPTEMBER 27, 2024 When Hurricane Helene began to take shape in the Gulf of Mexico, there was one factor thatContinue reading “The Big Thing Making Hurricane Helene Dangerous Helene’s winds stretch close to 500 miles across. That’s half the width of the entire Gulf of Mexico.”
Climate change action – all in our heads?
The psychology of climate change. Why aren’t we doing more? Guest blog by Neil Kitching My readers know that we should be taking climate change seriously, very seriously. We are educated, articulate, care for the environment, care for each other, and claim to care about future generations. Why are our emissions not falling faster? PleaseContinue reading “Climate change action – all in our heads?”
A clean energy revolution in the Derbyshire Dales
The first community-owned solar power in the Derbyshire Dales has been installed on the roof of Twiggs Stores in Matlock, thanks to a partnership between Derbyshire Dales Community Energy (DDCE) and the Big Solar Co-op. This will be the first of many renewable energy projects in the region that harness the potential of communities toContinue reading “A clean energy revolution in the Derbyshire Dales”
The Case for Growth Agnosticism
A useful guide to anyone interested in the current debate by the new labour government on economic growth-A commentary by Michael Albert of the University of Edinburgh Can the needs of the planet be reconciled with the need for economic growth within our capitalist economy? This is one of the biggest questions that divides sustainabilityContinue reading “The Case for Growth Agnosticism”
The right have hijacked Englishness. Can it be reclaimed?
I spent Saturday morning listening to an exceptional former Green MP Caroline Lucas talk about England and being English and how distorted our electoral system has become. She is a formidable and eloquent analyst of how our system has become a bandwagon for the right and how we might change this dynamic by transforming manyContinue reading “The right have hijacked Englishness. Can it be reclaimed?”
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