Last month, I found myself in the slightly surreal position of having a heated argument with my uncle Derek about electric cars while standing in the frozen food aisle of…
Last summer, I watched three months of careful gardening literally wither away in less than a week. After a spring of perfectly normal rainfall and moderate temperatures that had lulled…
Let me tell you about my most embarrassing moment as an environmental writer. It happened three years ago at a sustainability conference in Manchester. I was on a panel about…
I had my first full-blown climate panic attack in the frozen food aisle of Tesco. It was summer 2019, right after that terrifying heatwave that shattered temperature records across Europe.…
I had one of those properly humbling moments last year that made me realize I’d been missing an enormous piece of the sustainability puzzle. I was sitting in my home…
My laptop just turned seven years old last Thursday. I know this because I’ve had it marked in my calendar as “Laptop Birthday” with a little cake emoji since 2017.…
I was sitting in my kitchen last Tuesday morning, sipping coffee from my favorite chipped mug (the one with the faded “Compost Happens” slogan), when my phone pinged with a…