Why whales could be the key to storing our carbon emissions
Two academics from the University of Cambridge argue that whales and other marine life are a solution to the climate crisis. Although global governments have committed to limiting global temperature rise to 1.5C, their behavior is not indicative of seriousness. Emissions continue to rise every year. The most recent climate analysis report by the IPCC, […]
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London buses become roving treatment centres – FFA
A coffee company that is not for profit is behind a scheme to provide roving treatment and consultation rooms for homeless people and rough sleepers. Social enterprise Change Please100 percent of coffee sales profits go to homelessness prevention, including support for employment, barista training, and housing. Two London buses have been repurposed by the Change […]
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10 inspiring things we learned from the new issue of FFA magazine – FFA
Tipping points are positive and also negative. Many people are in a climate depression, paralysed and overwhelmed by the complexity and enormity of this problem. Tim Lenton is a professor of Earth system science at Exeter. But there is hope. In a news story this issue, Lenton introduces his fascinating research into the potential of […]
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A key piece of the puzzle for a more energy-secure UK? Storage, and more of it
The UK must be able to store renewable electricity to avoid dependence on fossil fuels. But how exactly does it work, and who’s building it? A few years ago, when people in Bristol’s Feeder Road district learned of plans to install 48 diesel generators near a local nursery school, they weren’t best pleased. A group […]
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Connecting the dots: charity plots route to providing ‘paths for everyone’ – FFA
Slow travel took off in a big way at the height of the pandemic in 2020, with Britain’s National Cycle Network carrying almost 5 million users over 765m trips. Sustrans, the charity managing the network, has new plans to link every major city with traffic-free cycling and walking routes. This announcement builds on the previous announcement. […]
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What went right this week: an end to the break-up ‘blame game’, plus more positive news
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New issue of FFA leads on the creative ways the UK’s high streets are being reinvented
The issue also reports on people who have quit high-carbon careers to work for the planet, plans to create the world’s largest urban garden and how comedy lessons are being prescribed to trauma survivors. Lucy Purdy, editor-in-chief, introduces it “Someone has always clinked a cocktail glass in one hemisphere as someone loses a home in […]
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‘Wastewater can be very valuable’: the hydroponic system that provides clean water for Kenyans
Omiflo, a Nairobi startup, has developed a highly effective wastewater cleaning system. And it’s attractive to boot At the Giraffe Centre in Nairobi, visitors can feed by hand pellets made from molasses to Africa’s tallest giants. It’s one of the area’s most popular tourist attractions and has played a pivotal role in conserving the critically […]
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Books over borders: joy as bombed shop in Gaza reopens – FFA
After being destroyed by an Israeli airstrike, a worldwide outpouring of support allowed a beloved bookshop in London to reopen. The warning call came on 18th May last year. The Israel Defense Forces had intelligence pointing to a Hamas cell operating somewhere in the five-storey building housing Samir Mansour’s eponymously named bookshop, Gaza’s premier foreign […]
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Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy – FFA
The prospect of harnessing nuclear fusion – the phenomenon that powers the sun – to create abundant safe, sustainable energy for the world has received a major boost, thanks to scientists at an experimental facility in Oxford. They were able to double the record for sustained energy from fusion in an experiment at the JET […]
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