A Trip With A Difference
Follow this link to a fascinating article in which Chantal Cooke, co-founder of PASSION for the PLANET, shares her experience of an expedition on a ship where ‘tourists’ travelled with scientists and could learn from and engage with the research being carried out. http://passionforfreshideas.com/travel-2/tourism-and-science/ PASSION for the PLANET is the UK’s first ethically focused radio […]
Hazelnuts in Suburbia
Listen to this article I saw them last night during an evening walk with my husband. They were hanging there, showing off on a tree just outside the primary school not far from our house. I was lucky to have spotted them in the fading light. A cluster of four. I could feel my mood […]
#ClimateLeadership
This article was written by our Special Scientific Adviser, Bill McGuire. Prime Minister Boris Johnson professes to be a great admirer of Winston Churchill, to the extent that he has written a (much savaged) biography of the man. Churchill was a deeply unsavoury character in many ways, but there is a strong argument that, as […]
Eyeing The Dots And Crossing The D’s
It’s a real pleasure to be invited to write an article for the wonderful people at The Word Forest Organisation. Their mission and vision complement well those of Scientists Warning Increasingly, we’re hearing scientists and environmental journalists encouraging us all to join the dots, to urge governments to finally treat the climate and ecological crisis […]
Fencing At The Gracious Children’s Centre And School
The Word Forest Organisation has had links with the Gracious Children’s Centre and School for a number of years now. Headteacher and founder of the school, Michael Jefwa, provides an education for children that ordinarily would not be able to afford to go to school. He also acted as educator for the Mothers Of The […]
Dream Big – A Series Of Films About Trees
We all love TV and streaming services, and the fact is that the quantity of films, series and documentaries grows by the day. There are so many that it’s easy for some of them, even the really brilliant ones, to get lost in the sea of content, or disappear almost completely. We are delighted to […]
Rosa’s Footprint Competition Results
You may remember a piece we featured earlier this year about our friend, the talented children’s author Jo Earlam, her book Rosa’s Footprint and the writing contest she launched. Simon and I were delighted to be asked to help judge it and I can tell you, the bar was high. In what seems like the […]
Elephant Fun Facts
Having had elephants wandering not far from the tree planting community that we work with in Boré, we thought you might be interested to find out a little more about them. Here’s a lovely article full of fun facts about elephants from PASSION for the PLANET. PASSION for the PLANET is the UK’s first ethically […]
Forward To The Past
Just What Is The Climate Change Bottom Line? This article was written by our Special Scientific Adviser, Bill McGuire, and was recently published on his blog Cool Earth. We thank him for giving us permission to reproduce it here. Climate modelling isn’t the only way of forecasting what our climate-changed world will look like by […]