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I launched The New Climate publication in early 2023 as an experiment to stoke engagement on climate change and the environment amongst Medium.com's readership. It's since grown into a beautiful thing, and helped to provide a platform for new writers around the world.  

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Climate Refugees: How The World Must Act

Banaba, a small Pacific island of just six square kilometres, should be the postcard-picture of paradise. But, Colonialism. In 1945, the British Phosphate Commission — jointly owned by the British, Australian and New Zealand governments—relocated the entire population of Banaba (also known as Ocean Island and part of present-day Kiribati) to Rabi Island (Fiji), in order to mine for phosphate. By the 1980s, the BPC had exhausted the phosphate supply and mined 90% of the Banaba’s surface...
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Are Agrivoltaics The Ultimate Climate Win-Win?

Take a train journey through the British countryside, and you’re sure to come across a view like the one in the photo above. When fields full of solar panels — known as solar farms or solar parks—started to become common around 10–15 years ago, I used to gaze out on them with a mix of hope and excitement. They seemed to offer tangible, irrefutable evidence that the renewable energy transition was underway. But as they become more ubiquitous I get a karmic pang of guilt...
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How Smart Home Batteries Could Solve Renewable Energy Storage

It all started for me one year ago. My energy provider in the UK asked if I’d like to take part in an energy saving trial. Being somewhat of an energy nerd, and Editor of a climate publication, I was likely to say yes anyway. But there was an extra sweetener — they would pay me for it. And in the middle of a cost of living crisis, with energy bills the highest in living memory, I happily plonked that sweetener in my cup of English Breakfast tea, gave it a stir, and gulped it down...
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I Wrote A Book About Water: Here’s What I Learned

I’d already written one environmental book, plus several reports for the BBC on water issues. So writing my next book on the subject of the water crisis seemed a logical step when discussing it with my publisher in February 2020 — how hard can it be? The following month I had a book deal, but the world had a pandemic — I was locked down and thinking more about my family’s health and survival. The book now seemed impossible. And the words ‘how hard can it be?’ took on a whole new meaning...

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