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Environment

Fifty Shades of Green

I’ve set up a YouTube channel centred around everything low-carbon, sustainable and green. The channel is called Fifty Shades of Green, and the first video I’ve uploaded is a flight-free trip from Lancaster to the French Alps by train and bicycle.

I hope you enjoy it! I’m already working on the next episode.

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Development Environment Opinions

How improving website performance can help save the planet

Climate change may not seem like an issue that should concern web developers, but the truth is that our work does have a carbon footprint, and it’s about time we started to think about that.

By Jack Lenox, published by Smashing Magazine on 15 January 2019

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Environment

The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene

I’m currently reading Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin’s The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene. In the first couple of chapters, the authors lay down some history of the human interpretation of climate change. I find it mind-blowing that we understood our ability to affect this planet’s climate through our activities, and that we were discussing it, more than 200 years ago. Geologists like Thomas Jenkyn and enlightenment giant, George-Louis Leclerc (better known as the Comte de Buffon) both wrote and gave lectures on the topic.

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Environment

Reason to be cheerful: Denmark gets a new national park today

Today marks the opening of the Kongernes Nordsjælland (Kings of North Zealand) National Park, comprising 5,000sq km of forest and 60sq km of lakes as well as a number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.