January was hell but at least we created Baths largest nature reserve
Two weeks of losing my mind waiting for the most important thing I've ever done with my life to go bloody through come on.
Climate
Tree planting (and invasive mangling) season 2025/26 in full swing
It took me two years to get around to writing a second
Rosebank oil & gas drilling banned, deposit return scheme in UK, Lynx on the rise, and Texas swaps coal for solar
Good climate news in weird dark fascist times: no new oil and gas at rosebank or jackdaw oil fields, a UK deposit return scheme, and recovering lync populations in Portugal.
Help Protect Earth Plant 100k Trees this Winter!
We need your help to plant 100,000 trees this year, as 60,000 spade ready projects have no funding and will have to be delayed until next winter.
Renewables overtake fossil fuels in Europe, Baby Beavers in London, and Drivers Ditching Cars
Renewables are overtaking fossil fuels in EU and aren't slowing down, super cute baby beavers are born in London for the first time in 400 years, and car free is becoming more of a reality as cities make improvements.
Wildlife Success Stories, USA looks set to ditch Orange Hitler, and Net Zero ramps up worldwide
I will be sharing good news for climate, wildlife, and the environment in general each week, avoiding (and highlighting) greenwashing, and sharing some petitions you can sign to get us more good news in weeks to come.
Carbon Offsetting Isn't The Problem, "Carbon Neutrality" Is
Carbon offsetting often sparks heated debatesbut the issue is not with carbon offsetting, but with the flawed concept of carbon neutrality.
Unf**king the Climate - Part 6: The Role of Renewable Energy
Renewable energy is not just the cleanest way to generate electricity, it has long been the cheapest. Switching our fossil fuel energy systems over to renewable energy around the world is not just crucial to the climate crisis, but will save a huge amount of money for all of us.
The Best Possible Quality Tree Planting
Attempting to end the infighting on tree planting vs natural regeneration so we can all focus on getting on the critical job of doing loads of both, and when we are planting, let's do it properly.
Navigating the Nuances of Development: Beyond NIMBY and YIMBY
Reducing every discussion down to NIMBY/YIMBY ignores that fact that every single project has its own particular cost/benefit analysis and environmental impact assessment.
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?