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Lessons from a rainy kingdom

By Nathan ⋅ February 15, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Each year in South East Asia, the months from June through October see monsoon rains, consisting of torrential daily rainfall. This is a predicable annual event in Cambodia, where 75% of the country lies no more than 100m above sea level, and sophisticated irrigation systems and reservoirs were built a thousand years ago. As increasing population, tourism and industrialisation hamper Cambodia’s ability to manage flooding, what can we in the UK still learn from Cambodia about flood management?

5 less than useful things to say at Copenhagen

By Nathan ⋅ December 1, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

With the Copenhagen climate change conference now only five days away, I thought I might offer some guidance to attendees on some things that are less than useful to say. It will be essential to foster an atmosphere of constructive cooperation in Copenhagen, so let’s save some pain now by following some simple guidelines and avoiding saying certain things.

Responsibletravel.com drops carbon offsetting

By Nathan ⋅ November 8, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Ethical travel company responsibletravel.com has dropped carbon offsetting as an option on the holidays it sells, despite originally being one of the first travel companies to offer it as an option. Responsibletravel.com now shares the opinion of Friends of the Earth when they describe offsetting as a ‘dangerous distraction‘, and encourages customers to reduce their [...]

Climate change and the future

By Nathan ⋅ October 19, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

This article on Science Daily discusses a recent study by scientists at Boston University into the effects on trees, and in turn on carbon and water cycles, of increased atmospheric levels of CO2. The small problem being that the article doesn’t actually give us any clues what will happen, only that analysing the stomatal density [...]

Are you optimistic about the future?

By Nathan ⋅ October 16, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve just finished an Environment course with the Open University, and have only just got over the relief of seeing the back of it. An exam yesterday saw a download of everything I could remember from the last seven months of study, all in three hours, in badly-written biro. Much of what I have been studying is only just sinking in.

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