Articles and insights to improve environmental literacy
The modern world moves fast, but that doesn’t mean everything we experience has to be bite-sized and breakneck. If a 30-second explainer video is what you’re after, we can help you with that too – but this is the place for words. Words you can read at your own pace, dip into and come back to, read and re-read if that’s your thing.
Environmental literacy article series
COP26
Commentary and coverage on the 26th Conference of the Parties in 2021.
Richard’s blog
Richard’s personal insights and experiences on climate breakdown and environmental literacy.
It is now just over two weeks since COP26 ended. Most reports agree that it was a failure, but with a few minor positive outcomes. Not a complete failure, but not too far off.
Wednesday 3 November is when world leaders discuss the provision of finance for lower income countries to help them deal with the climate crisis. But finance will also be a thread through the whole of the conference.
China is the single largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world. It surpasses even the resource intensive economy of the United States. With this tag comes some responsibility to take action to reduce emissions.
Merlin Hanbury-Tenison was burned out and in a very fragile psychological state. Additional personal traumas led Merlin and his wife to seek refuge on the family’s farm. There they found calm and healing.
This book reminds us that if we’re to achieve a positive future, we need to be able to imagine it. But we need to do this when, for most of us, this important human trait is undervalued and in danger of being snuffed out.
The story follows one, lonely driver as she tries to reconcile her initial support for the idea with her increasing isolation and dislocation from nature and from other people.