Summer Edition 1: Animals help sequester more carbon!

Stumbled upon this article in Nature last month and it was so interesting and cool and today I finally had time and will to write about it. Trophic Rewilding can expand natural climate solutions (Schmitz et al 2023) We’ve talked before about the global flows of carbon: Humans are emitting 10-11 GtC/yr (billion metric tonnes of carbon), or abou... Read more 04 Jun 2023 - 6 minute read

Sustainability Consultant Internship

Carbon Footprinting For the last three weeks ish I’ve been doing an unpaid (gasp coming from engineering world) internship as a sustainability consultant for a local plantmilk company. The plantmilk is delicious (this is also an unpaid advertisement for them). I did a little carbon footprinting for them about their products. I’ve attached the no... Read more 30 Apr 2023 - 7 minute read

Term 2 Week 10: Novel Entities and Vultures

Remember the planetary boundaries and this category called “Novel Entities” which basically is all the new chemicals and substances we are making and leaking into the environment with no real clue what’s going to happen to them? The state of the PBs as of 2022(Persson et al 2022) I just listened to this Radiolab podcast about how all the vul... Read more 26 Apr 2023 - 3 minute read

Term 2 Week 8: Diet and Climate and a Policy Proposal

I present a policy proposal to help reduce livestock consumption and production in the UK (below). The introduction where I scream about how bad meat is for the environment is woefully short due to the word count limitations. I’m going to expand on that for yall here because I haven’t done a Please Stop Eating So Much Meat episode yet. The exist... Read more 30 Mar 2023 - 3 minute read

Policy Proposal: Global Maritime Speed Limit for Life Below Water

Commercial shipping is responsible for a large portion of global emissions, underwater noise pollution, and deadly collisions with marine life. To achieve Sustainable Development Goals 14 and 13, short-term interventions are needed while new technologies develop. Slowing ship speed can have a high impact on emissions and safety for marine life (... Read more 20 Mar 2023 - less than 1 minute read

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