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Author: Adam Hardy

Zoologist at heart. Environmentalist by necessity. Stage hand, financial trader, secretary, card payments designer, software developer, fossil fuel big data warehouse consultant. Amateur psychologist. Now climate change salvage engineer.

How to block Heat during Heatwaves

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New climate research in the science journal Nature* shows how dangerously under prepared northern Europe and especially the UK and Eire are for the consequences of climate change and the…

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Published 2023-09-12
Categorised as ActionTagged ecotips, heatwave

Extreme heat – cities are struggling

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The World Meteorological Organisation noted last week as Britons flock to their summer getaways that “parallel and stationary heat domes” have meant temperatures would top 40°C in parts of North…

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Published 2023-08-01
Categorised as ActionTagged cities, ecotips, heatwave

Volunteer volunteer volunteer!

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Organise! Organise! Organise! Join! Join! Join! One of the many ways to play a part in the fight against climate change is to volunteer your time and energy to help…

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Published 2023-06-27
Categorised as ActionTagged ecotips

A Good Citizen

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With UK elections probably in 2024 – the next general election is scheduled to be held no later than 28 January 2025 – the general public gets the chance to…

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Published 2023-06-20
Categorised as ActionTagged ecotips

Empowering Change: July Workshop

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We brought 10 people together to investigate what holds us back from climate action and what ways around it there are. In a nutshell, we covered all the facets of…

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Published 2023-06-09
Categorised as ActionTagged meeting

Stroud Green Primary – Let’s Go Fresko

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Stroud Green Primary in Finsbury Park agreed to draft me in with a team of Freskers to give their Year 6 pupils the Kids Climate Fresk workshop. There were 5…

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Published 2023-06-07
Categorised as Organisation

Sustainable Tech

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New companies are building technology like mobile phones and laptops with sustainability, recycling, reuse, repair and low emissions built-in. Fairphone produce Android-based mobile phones. I have one and have replaced…

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Published 2023-05-31
Categorised as ActionTagged conflict minerals, ecotips, fairphone, framework laptop, tech

May 2023 Fresk Workshop Pics

People participating in a climate fresk workshop

We had 9 participants on Saturday last week (May 20th) and it went way over time. Everybody was motivated right to the end though so no worries there. The people…

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Published 2023-05-29
Categorised as ActionTagged climate fresk

Renewable Energy at Home

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Which? Magazine recommends either Good Energy, Ecotricity or GEUK as the best providers of renewable energy to domestic households. With the massive price rises and the uncertainty in the market…

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Published 2023-05-16
Categorised as ActionTagged ecotips, energy provider

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