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In 2018 when the IPCC announced we only had ‘12 years to limit climate change catastrophe’, I remember having an anxiety induced knee-jerk reaction which I immediately regretted. I sent a message to the WhatsApp junior infant parent group of my son’s school, more or less pleading with everyone to do something to save our children’s futures. The radio silence afterwards made...

Plastic Free July is a global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to plastic pollution.  It was started in 2011 by Rebecca Prince-Ruiz and a small team in local government in Western Australia and is now one of the most influential environmental campaigns in the world. The movement has inspired 100+ million participants in 190...

The world emits around 50 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases each year, an exponential increase since the 1980s. Changes in the climate are causing significant environmental damage to countries all around the world. We’ve seen a frightening increase in natural disasters, the extinction of species, as well as economic unrest. You may have heard both terms used in conjunction with...