Fundraising for RSPB during Etape Loch Ness
I'm riding in Etape Loch Ness, and using the opportunity to fundraise for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Please donate! Here's my fundraising page.
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🌱 Good news: Cities like London, Paris, and Barcelona are redesigning streets for people instead of cars. This cuts pollution while improving health, local economies, and quality of life.
🌡️ Not so good news: Rising nighttime temperatures are disrupting sleep worldwide, with cascading effects on health, learning, and productivity—especially for the most vulnerable.
🏡 What you can do: Simple steps like adding window film, choosing reflective roofing, and planting trees can keep your home cooler, save money, and reduce the urban heat island effect, if you live in a city.
I am sorry there are not actually any stories about cats in the newsletter this week. I just couldn't resist this image of a cat trying to keep cool indoors.
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Three cities that are cancelling car culture
Making cities walkable, losing sleep in the heat, and three ways to cool your homeKatharine Hayhoe (Talking Climate)
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That’s the end of the saltmarsh planting sessions for now. Many thanks to all the volunteers who came out to help get thousands of plants planted.
Next it’s time to take more cuttings from the stock plants in the poly tunnel.
There’s a wee blog post with some of the photos taken during the planting here:
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#Saltmarsh #volunteers #NatureScot #NatureRestorationFund
2026 Fife Planting Season- Photos – Green Shores
2026 Fife Planting Season- Photoshks3 (Green Shores)
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When did caring about the planet become “un-Christian”?
In this episode of Cold Facts, Hot Takes, I take on troll comments about faith and climate change - and I get a lot of them.
I also paint the broader picture of how theology, ideology, and identity have become intertwined in the U.S.—and how that shapes what people believe, even when those beliefs conflict with both science and faith.
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When did caring about the planet become “un-Christian”?
Christian climate scientist's take on ideology over theologyKatharine Hayhoe (Talking Climate)
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The #Republican Party naturally draws people who are drawn to Authoritarianism.
God is the ultimate "Protector/Punisher/Authority". So politicians who promise to "protect" their subjects from every imagined "evil" and "punish evil-doers" as long as you don't question their authority are VERY attractive to #Evangelicals/#Zionists.
So when that same Party equates "#Green" with "atheists who are lying & making your life unnecessarily difficult", Evangelicals are quick to follow. 😞
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Am a Christian and an environmental activist who believes in taking care of our planet as an instruction from God after creating the first man. I don't know which kind of believes are against the activity of conserving the environment but all I can say is that they're not true believers. What's their argument against conserving the environment?
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🌎 Good news: One of the most biodiverse marine ecosystems on Earth, the Great Bear Sea, is Canada’s first - and the world's second largest - marine protected area network, co-governed by 17 First Nations.
⚠️ Not-so-good news: A new The Nature Conservancy Science study finds that 35% of the world already lives in areas where extreme heat limits safe outdoor activity for part of the year.
🌱 What you can do: Even small actions like planting native species or supporting community gardens can cool cities, reduce flooding, and support biodiversity.
And when we talk about climate solutions, anger and worry decreases: and hope rises! When we make climate action visible, it becomes contagious. talkingclimate.ca/p/indigenous…
Indigenous-Led Ocean Protection in Canada
Indigenous-led conservation, extreme heat restricts our lives, and guerrilla gardenersKatharine Hayhoe (Talking Climate)
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I’m thinking about the situation just the other day where heat index and general high temperatures will affect more and more of humanity, particularly those populations closer to the equator, I keep remembering older human de habitation, older cities as being built from multistory buildings with narrow alleyways between them.
And what it reminds me of our canyons
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We got to meet an amazing person, Natasha Zarine, this week, who is using prize money from the St Andrews Prize for the Environment to clean up rivers in India
more background on Natasha here:
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Natasha Zarine and EcoSattva Lead the Charge in Sustainable Waste Management and River Restoration
Natasha Zarine, co-founder of EcoSattva Environmental Solutions is pioneering waste management and river restoration across the country.Darshana Ramdev (The Global Indian)
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Another great day saltmarsh restoration planting on the Eden Estuary, many thanks to today’s volunteers- the polytunnel grown plants now out in the wild to fend for themselves (with a little protection from the waves by the fencing)
#MarshMadness #volunteers #NatureScot #NatureRestorationFund #Saltmarsh
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Hope isn’t something we wait for: it's something we create. This week's Talking Climate news illustrates why it matters so much, and how innovation and courage can help!
💧 Good news: A solar-powered system can pull drinking water directly from the air—up to 1,000 liters of clean water a day, even in dry areas where billions of people already face water scarcity.
🧠 Not-so-good news: Climate change is increasingly affecting people's mental health, from Madagascar to Appalachia. In the U.S. alone, rising heat could lead to hundreds of millions additional days of anxiety and depression each year by end of century.
🚶 Inspiration: Three members of New Mexico Interfaith Power and Light recently completed a 320-mile pilgrimage from the oil-producing Permian Basin to the state capitol in Santa Fe to call for climate action.
Read more in this week’s edition, and don't forget to share! talkingclimate.ca/p/pulling-cl…
Pulling clean water from...air?
New technology to capture clean water, climate anxiety grows, and a faith-driven inspirationKatharine Hayhoe (Talking Climate)
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people keep trying this, and if you understand basic physics, you'll understand why this is marginal at best and in dry climates a terrible idea.
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3.3: Latent Heat
This page explains latent heat, the energy involved in phase changes of water, such as melting, evaporation, condensation, and freezing. It highlights that heat added to ice at 0°C causes melting …Libretexts (Geosciences LibreTexts)
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More info about the Dornoch Firth saltmarsh restoration planting sessions coming up on the 24 and 25 March.
We're looking for more volunteers to join us.
It would be great to have a big group of volunteers out planting, learning a bit more about saltmarsh and helping their local area.
Contact info is on the poster and in the Alt Text.
#Scotland #DornochFirth #Volunteering #Saltmarsh #MarshMadness
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Another muddy planting day today.
Today’s group were planting sea club rush in the Eden Estuary.
A successful planting day - all the plants we brought were planted.
We are still looking for more volunteers in Dornoch on the 24 & 25 March
Sign up at greenshores@st-andrews.ac.uk to join in the planting.
@HI_Greens please spread the word!
#Dornoch #SaltmarshRestoration #NatureScot #NatureRestorationFund
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Thanks to our fabulous volunteers we got more saltmarsh grasses planted behind protective fencing to help restore saltmarsh on the Eden Estuary today.
#Saltmarsh #MarshMadness #NatureScot #NatureRestorationFund
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Why winters are riskier in a warmer world
Clean air wins, how warmer winters are riskier, and why join a climate action groupKatharine Hayhoe (Talking Climate)
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A very successful first week's planting at Tayport common saltmarsh, all the plants were planted and the polytunnel has a bit more space in it.
Many thanks to all the fabulous volunteers who came out to help on the sunny saltmarsh.
There is still time to sign up for the next sessions, on the Eden estuary, on the 10th, 11th, 17th-19th March.
contact greenshores@st-andrews.ac.uk to sign up
More info at greenshores.wp.st-andrews.ac.u…
#NatureScot #NatureRestorationFund #Volunteers #Saltmarsh
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The U.S. is stepping back from global climate policies at the very moment the global clean energy transition is accelerating.
Christiana Figueres, former UN climate leader and architect of the Paris Agreement, explains why this attempt to double down on fossil fuels is economically and technologically out of step with the rest of the world — and why it won’t stop the broader shift already underway. Instead, it leaves the U.S. trailing behind; and catching up in a global clean energy race is far harder than leading it.
Subscribe to my Patreon or Substack to watch the full interview about policy, outrage, optimism, and the spiritual grounding we need to navigate moments like this.
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The U.S. has stepped back - but global climate action is moving forward
Christiana Figueres on climate policy and clean energy in the U.S.Katharine Hayhoe (Talking Climate)
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there are many examples of companies that have ignored changing markets and doubled down on a dying product or technology. It always ends badly. I suspect it a combination of a lack of imagination and timidness or maybe pigheadedness that blinds them to the risks.
#climatechange #renewables
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Looking for Volunteers to get muddy doing conservation planting
Saltmarsh Restoration Planting Dates March 2026
Sessions will run 9:30am-1pm
March Tues 3 & Wed 4 at Tayport Common
March Tues 10, Wed 11 at Eden North Shore
March Tues 17, Wed 18, Thursday 19 at Eden South Shore
March Tues 24 & Wed 25 at Dornoch
contact greenshores@st-andrews.ac.uk to sign up
More info at greenshores.wp.st-andrews.ac.u…
#SolarPunkSunday #Scotland #NatureScot #NatureRestorationFund #Volunteering
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Have China's carbon emissions peaked?
China's clean energy surge, U.S. endangerment finding rescinded, and climate-safe banksKatharine Hayhoe (Talking Climate)
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We've got more opportunities to join the saltmarsh planting fun on the 10th and 11th of March on the Eden Estuary North Shore, near Leuchars.
Get in touch to sign up.
more info on our website
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#NatureScot #NatureRestorationFund #Saltmarsh #Conservation
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The US NSF has put out a "dear colleagues" letter that is essentially a yard sale list for the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
It asks questions such as, "who'd like to take over some of NCAR's programs?," and, "Is anyone interested in commercial use of the Mesa Lab?
If you have any thoughts about this that you'd like to share, you can send them to NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov
Here is the letter: nsf.gov/funding/information/dc…
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@HI_Greens hello! thanks for the follow
We'll be doing some saltmarsh restoration planting up in the Dornoch Firth at the end of March, would it be ok if we tag you to share the information?
It would be great to reach more people than usual for the Dornoch site
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We're into saltmarsh restoration planting season again!
If you are in Fife or nearby we have planting sessions in Tayport, and on the Eden Estuary, north and south shores, over the next few weeks. Details online greenshores.wp.st-andrews.ac.u…
First up is Tayport on March 3rd and 4th
We have some wellies and waterproofs we can lend out for the session, let us know if you need a loan when you email to sign up.
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#Saltmarsh #NatureScot #NatureRestorationFund #Volunteering #TayRiver
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Roche Limit
in reply to Dr. Katharine Hayhoe • • •David Penington
in reply to Dr. Katharine Hayhoe • • •People are not allowed a pale or while roof.
Disclosure: Our new house in 2001 has a "colourbond" roof, I chose the palest grey available. Half of it now has solar panels.