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E-Bikes Being an environmentalist used to be about either more expensive or more boring things, or giving things up. But nowadays it can be more about getting cool new stuff. Starting now, I´m going to aim to do 1 out of every 2 posts about ways to go green that are fun, cool, or save you...

A weird one this, the smoke clouds have grounded planes and send a cloud of smoke to wall street, it's almost as if the climate is finding back...or sending a message. Anyone living through this in the north East US or Canada? I hope the smoke clears for the best health for everyone. Although...

If you see anything about El Niño in the news re climate, here´s what you need to know. There is a cycle of heat transfer between the ocean and atmosphere due to currents, winds etc. The total amount of heat in ocean+atmosphere remains constant. When we are in El Niño phases, there is more...

I think Chat GPT, the language model that is in the news, is very interesting and impressive. Here's a conversation I had with it: It seems to avoid controversy, and take a centrist position, and therefore at its best can just reflect back humanity's collective wisdom. I think it is a big...

A balanced article on stem cell meat. Stem Cell Meat from Singapore: A Taste of the Future The price of $50/kilo and the fact that they are serving it up to journalists possibly suggests that we might be nearing commercialisation Note I am posting this for interest, not as a recommended food...

‘I’ll stop saying I don’t eat meat – and tell people I don’t eat animals’ An interesting article today in the Guardian. he says ‘I’ll stop saying I don’t eat meat – and tell people I don’t eat animals’ Is this something we should all be doing? (feel free to comment on this point without...

Activists on the front lines of the climate movement have done things like destroy the encampments of loggers in forests, block roads, climb onto planes and motorway gantries and bridges, throw paint on the glass pane protecting art and occupy offices. I have never done any of those things and...

When I, as a meat eater at the time, read up on the ethics of meat eating in 2015/16, the arguments in favour of ethical vegetarianism seemed very compelling. However something held me back for a while, as I thought to myself, if meat eating really is ethically bad, why do most people not...

I just found out about Benjamin Lay (1682-1759). Born in Britain and settled in USA when it was a British colony. What a hero. He was an activist against slavery at the time when that wasn't even a movement, but his activism within the quakers likely helped start the movement. He was also a...

See here on my blog to understand why: https://foxesinchile.wordpress.com/2022/03/30/petrol-is-not-expensive/

An article in the BBC today: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220320-tbingen-europes-fiercely-vegan-fairy-tale-city It's going straight on my bucket list. Actually this one looks quite feasible for people in the UK and Europe to travel to, without a long haul flight or maybe even without a...

The Amazon is approaching a tipping point, data shows. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/07/climate-crisis-amazon-rainforest-tipping-point "The study does not enable a prediction of when the tipping point could be reached. But the researchers warned that by the time the...

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/03/big-agriculture-funding-regenerative-ranching-amp-grazing-soil-carbon?fbclid=IwAR1fglPurEaWr-N_TpAm2AJM2rk_zQEOoAvBox0OrrSJZRsbyq6Fb1QFOaM "The regenerative ranching phenomenon is not just exaggerated. It’s fabricated, woven from a carbon-credit scheme for big...

The combined land area for producing meat for UK consumption is larger than the UK itself according to The National Food Strategy, an independent review for DEFRA. That doesn't even include the huge extra area required to produce dairy...

As long as they don´t have leather, vegans are able to buy and use products like cars and consumer electronics, even if they have say a glue derived from animals. However, for reasons that don´t appear to me to be consistent, a much greater strictness is required for food than anything else. If...

I am starting this thread to share news on climate change. Climate change is a tremendous threat to animals as well as humans. Certainly more animals than humans will be killed by climate change. And many species will even go extinct, whereas humans will probably not. So for animals it's even...

This is the first country that I am aware of where the government is trying to reduce factory farming, good for them. It is because of the manure. However they are doing this because they are a big meat exporter, so presumably this doesn´t require them to reduce their own meat consumption. The...

Map: Presidential election results: Live map of 2020 electoral votes A quick look at the map of the 2020 election results by state shows how this would work with a Western blue nation (WB), a central red nation (CR) and a North-Eastern blue one (NE). I think each nation has to be fully...

Soil contains a certain amount of carbon and depending on how you farm you can either release it (causing climate change) or trap it (reducing climate change). Often when we talk about reducing climate change, we talk about things like vegan food and electric cars and solar panels that only...

Where do you get your news? In how much depth did they cover this week's stories of flooding in Oman, Iran and China including the deaths, houses swept away by floods and destroyed by mud slides and 20,000 people relocated from their homes? It's a similar level of catastrophe to the recent...