Mindful Christmas Shopping
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…
Plant Power: Eating for the planet
World Vegan Month: Why Plant-Based Eating Helps Your Health and the PlanetThere is something hugely impactful that we can all do to help the climate movement — just by being…
COP30: Action in the Amazon
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…
Jane Goodall: The Scientist Who Changed How We See Nature
Jane Goodall: A Life of Compassion and ConservationOf 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…
Coldplay’s Green Tour
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…
How Our ‘Normal’ Changes with Every Generation
Shifting Baseline SyndromeIf 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…
Manchester’s Peatland🌍 Fighting Climate Change
Manchester’s PeatlandsHolding 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…
Paris grows greener
Paris goes greenParis. 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…
Too hot. It’s a heatwave
We are hopefully nearing the end. But right now (early summer 2025) we are still experiencing a heatwave. 🥵 The daily average temperature has been around 10°C higher than usual…
Summer solstice
It’s tomorrow - in the early hours of the morning. I’m talking about the summer solstice (in the Northern Hemisphere).☀️The summer solstice mostly falls on 21 June (officially it does…