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Struggling to Balance Charity Work and Income

I co-found Protect Earth in 2020 and none of us knew how big it would become. We plant tens of thousands of trees all over the country every year, and for me that work is entirely unpaid. Being brutally honest I could do with some help.

What is Green Software?

The Internet, good or bad? It's causing about 4% of global emissions, so either way we should probably do something about that, and the Green Software Foundation is here to help us figure out what to do.

HS2 Was Never Going to Destroy 108 Ancient Woodlands

You may have heard about High-Speed Rail 2, and you may have heard that it was going to (or already had) destroyed 108 ancient woodlands. That is not true. It was never true, not even before the Tories slashed the plans for Hs2 to pieces.

Somebody Stole My Laptop, Then A Ragtag Crew of Strangers Got It Back

I went on a Flight Free holiday and ended up being a sleepy mess, left my bag on a train, had the laptop stolen out of it, but a bunch of strangers conspired to get it back to me against all odds.

Tommy's Outdoors Podcast: Save Blackswarth Road Wood

Recently I had the pleasure of being invited onto Tommy's Outdoors Podcast to discuss Protect Earth's effort to rescue Blackswarth Road Wood in Bristol from misguided housing developers, and the charity in general.

Unf**king the Climate - Part 5: Freedom from Car Dependency

Being entirely reliant on expensive polluting forms of transport has become an unfortunate reality for many people, and as the climate crisis they’ve exacerbated is increasingly washing those vehicles into the sea, we need to ask ourselves, is there another way?

Bristol: Help Save Blackswarth Road Wood

Two weeks ago I saw a woodland had come up for sale in East Bristol. Last week I set up a fundraiser via my charity Protect Earth. Today we've raised over £20,000 and are over half way to our target, have coverage in BBC News, BBC Radio Bristol, Bristol

The Drowning Cyclist and the Wasp Nest

Canal paths are not bike infrastructure, with a hair raising example in the form of a cyclist who nearly drowned on a busy narrow stretch.

A Bicycle Could Never Carry...

"How am I going to regularly move fridges around without owning and paying extravegant amounts of money for a daily driving vehicle which can barely fit one" says man who has never seen a bicycle move three.

Unf**king the Climate - Part 4: Electric Cars, Good or Bad?

Electric cars are often talked about in a really weird false dichotomy whether they're either a silver bullet or worse than petrol cars, but what is anyone even talking about? Let's dive in.

From the Archives: Getting into Bike Touring

I've been super busy working on something huge in the world of rewilding which may or may not happen, so the new Unf**king the Climate post is behind schedule. I did notice that some of my older bike touring posts were missing. They are the sort of posts that

My Electric Campervan: The Struggle Bus

Living on the road with a little electric van, as an upgrade on bike nomad life, so I can carry all the machetes, chainsaws, spades, and mallets my charity needs, even when I'm injured.

Unf**king the Climate - Part 3: Waste

The third article in the Unf**king the Climate series is another "individual action" article, not because the entirety of the climate, biodiversity, and plastic crises are all entirely limited to what we do individually, but because there is little else in the world that we have control over than

Unf**king the Climate - Part 2: Food

Talking about food gets loud and ideological, but we're going to have a judgement free chat about livestock, flexitarianism, veganism, and my favourite: the invasivore diet. Let's fix the planet a little with our stomachs.