I think once you read about one of the easiest ways we could reduce harmful emissions and find out what we are doing instead, the only possible response is... *Just shakes head.* I know I've explained this before, but just in case you haven't read any of my previous posts, there's this book called Drawdown that proposes 80 of the most impactful solutions we have to avert the impending climate crisis. Number three on that list is reducing food waste. I mean, how effing simple,

Hernandez grew up the son of Mexican migrant farm workers, meaning his education was often disrupted as his parents followed the crops - he didn't become fluent in English until he was 12. However, Hernandez went on to earn a Master's degree in electrical and computer engineering from UC-Santa Barbara and went on to become an astronaut. He traveled in space, heading to the International Space Station as a mission specialist and now runs his own foundation, Reaching For The S

I started reading Drawdown because I wanted to know what is going to work - what do experts from around the globe say we should do in order to avert the impending shitshow of a climate disaster? The book ranks eighty solutions based on the total amount of greenhouse gases they can potentially avoid or remove from the atmosphere. Given that it feels we're hurtling towards a climate apocalypse at breakneck speed, I'm really interested in the solutions that give the most bang fo

Paula Kahumbu is the CEO of WildlifeDirect, an organisation that works to protect Africa's biodiversity. In 2013, she launched a campaign called "Hands Off Our Elephants." As Paula explains, elephants are particularly important to protect because each animal eats about 150kg of vegetation per day, spreading those nutrients between habitats. She calls them 'ecosystem engineers'. Species diversity begins to collapse when elephants disappear - they are a keystone species. One of