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Trees. We all know and love them (I hope). They provide a beautiful landscape, eerie settings, nostalgic childhood memories, and most importantly oxygen. With the advent of global anthropogenic climate change, focus has dramatically shifted to our woody friends. The cries of “plant more trees” and “trees are our future” echo in the distance asContinue reading “Is Afforestation Worth the Hype?”

Humans need food – it’s an unavoidable fact of life that has existed for hundreds of thousands of years. As such, the world’s population size and demand for food go hand-in-hand: by 2050, global demand for feed, food and fibre is predicted to rise by 70% alongside a projected population size of 9.8 billion. OverContinue reading “Will Becoming a Vegan Really Make a Difference?”

The rise of the automobile, fit with a fossil-fuel-chugging internal combustion engine, has seen with it unsustainable behavioural changes at a wider societal scale. Acting in line with other post-industrial human technological advancements, we have gradually arrived at the “uh-oh” phase wherein policymakers are desperately attempting to undo decades of environmental damage and increasingly awareContinue reading “Are Electric Cars the Future of UK Roads?”