Analysis and ideas on climate, energy and some less important things.
Category Archives: Climate
Introducing Kiln and the Carbon Map
Today sees a mini trio of launches. Robin Houston and I have just published our Carbon Map, a website that explores climate change responsibility and vulnerability using a newly developed type of interactive moving map. That site is the launch … Continue reading
Catching up
Having abandoned this blog for a couple of months, I thought I should quickly write a catch-up post to justify the interruption in service and get myself back into the swing of things. So although I don’t really approve of … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Energy, Media, MinorMass, Uncategorized
Tagged 10:10, Carbon cutting, Data, IFRs, Nuclear, Solar Schools, Thorium
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Making sense of climate targets
Just posted a Guardian backgrounder on climate targets, as part of our big FAQ project. It was interesting to write – not just to clarify a few details for myself, but also to realise quite how hard it is to … Continue reading
Groundbreaking new data tracks carbon back to source
Originally published on The Guardian Which of the following accounts for the largest share of the UK’s carbon footprint? All our holiday flights, all the power used in our homes or … Russia? Okay, so it’s kind of a trick … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Emissions, Energy
Tagged Carbon Footprints, Energy reserves, Fossil fuels
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How to use Million Dollar Homepage to involve five million people in renewable energy
How do you engage huge numbers of people in clean energy? How do you overcome the negative press that renewables are up against? And how do create an energy-based project that’s genuinely particpatory and has broader social benefits? Those are … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Energy
Tagged 10:10, Campaigning, Feed-in tariffs, Schools, Solar
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Maldives crowd-sources its radical energy plan
Originally published on The Guardian The Maldives on Thursday is to become the first country in the world to crowdsource its renewable energy strategy on the internet – a move designed as part of an ambitious plan to be the … Continue reading