When I arrived in the town of Grand Bank in 1963 after a 230-mile taxi ride from St Johns, Newfoundland, for a summer engineering job, the cod industry dominated the town; there was no mention of depleting cod stocks. Cod …
This is a review of a recent book, Artificial intelligence and the environmental crisis-Can technology really save the world? Routledge, 2020, pp 276, By Dr Keith Skene, Biosphere Research Institute, Dundee University. Indigenous hunter gatherer communities in the past understood …
Many homes in Aberdeen have no driveways or garages where electric charger points can be fitted. Our house in Abergeldie Road is one such example. In August 2024 I wrote to my councillor Ian Yuill, to see if I could …
The post below was published in CIWM Circular Journal, p 64-67, Winter, 2024, circularonline.co.uk, summarising an ACA cafe in Aberdeen on 6th February 2024. The future direction for single-use packaging was the topic on everyone’s mind at a recent Aberdeen …
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Preventing climate change while promoting a growth economy with a growing population is incompatible. This is the substance of economic anthropologist Prof. Jason Hickel’s absorbing book. For 300,000 years our ancestors worked with nature, taking only what they required. Items …
This is an Aberdeen Climate Action café 7-9 pm, Tuesday 6th September, via Zoom and in person at MHA, 6 Dee Street, Aberdeen AB11 6DR (off Union St). Speakers are Nikki Gordon, John Muir Trust, Sara Thiam of The Scottish …