Friday Find posts
Welcome to my Friday Finds page. But what are they? The Friday Finds are short educational articles that can be about any subject matter in the eco and climate space. They give you facts and an overview of each topic – big or small.
Enjoy the posts.
The Forest COP: What COP30 Means for Global Forests It was late October.🍂 The early evening air turned fresh, and the colours warmed. This was our most recent forest walk.Forests are never far away, even if you live in a town or city.Forests have been and remain absolutely key to...
Christmas shopping is here! Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Giving Tuesday, Cyber Monday, Super Saturday (and even Boxing Day, the day after Christmas).Now some of these days have turned into weeks.Take Black Friday (this year on 28 November) , one of the biggest shopping days of the year.It has now...
World Vegan Month: Why Plant-Based Eating Helps Your Health and the Planet There is something hugely impactful that we can all do to help the climate movement — just by being mindful.Easy right?It really is. You just need to add more plant-based foods into your diet.As it happens, November =...
COP30 in Brazil: Can the Amazon Host Deliver Real Climate Action? COP. A yearly spotlight on the state of our planet, coupled with well-intended plans.We all know it’s not going really well.This year, the event is being held earlier than usual, from 10–21 November. Its location? Belém, Brazil, right in...
Jane Goodall: A Life of Compassion and Conservation Of course, this article has to be about Jane. Scientist. Conservationist. Humanitarian. My hero, and for many others too. Jane Goodall. The first human to truly observe chimpanzees — our closest living relatives. She discovered that they make tools and that they...
Coldplay’s Green Tour: Cutting Concert Emissions by 59% ♨️Live concerts can generate a footprint of 25kg of CO2 equivalent per person for one event. This isn’t far off from one person’s daily CO2 output of activities. So, what are bands, festival organisers and venues doing? Right now, not a whole...
Shifting Baseline Syndrome If you’re over 30, you might say things like “when I was young” or “10 years ago.” 😉 So, I wonder when you were younger What do you remember about nature? What foods were available? What was your local area like? I am in my 40s. 🤔...
Manchester’s Peatlands Holding on to holiday mode, even though school starts again soon! We just visited Manchester, UK, where my sister lives. We celebrated a big birthday together. Manchester is known as an old industrial city. But surprisingly, it is full of nature. In the Greater Manchester area, you’re always...
Paris goes green Paris. We’ll be there in just a few days! The city of love❤️. It is home to many world-famous sights from the Eiffel Tower🗼 to the newly restored Notre-Dame de Paris.⛪ But there is a new must-see in Paris; the glowing green spaces 🌱 – with many...