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Posts tagged "carbon offsetting"

Can Regenerative Agriculture Save the Planet? with Doug Wanstall of Beyond Zero

Sep 20, 2024

With agriculture being responsible for 11% of the UK's carbon emissions, declining biodiversity and polluted water courses, is there a Sustainable alternative to modern industrial...

Words of Wisdom: Offsetting and its alternatives

Aug 23, 2024

This week's podcast is a summer special compilation of my favourite excerpts of our interviews to date on the rather thorny theme of offsets (aka...

Shining a light on offsetting with Nic Alexander

Jul 12, 2024

Are offsets "a dangerous distraction from carbon reductions"? Are they morally abhorrent, akin to murderers buying 'indulgences' from the church in medieval Europe? Or are...

Dr Olli Jones of Cundall on Net Zero Architecture/Construction, Alternatives to Offsetting and Climate Resilience

Feb 23, 2024

The first thing you see on construction design giant Cundall's website is "Achieving net zero carbon on all our projects by 2030". In this week's...

The Pros and Cons of Offsetting

May 29, 2023

I've never signed up to the George Monbiot view that offsetting carbon emissions (ie paying a third party to remove an equivalent amount of carbon...

To offset or not to offset…

Feb 24, 2020

Offsetting is back in the news, and with the same old debate: is it a good idea to get someone else to reduce/absorb carbon emissions...

Trees, please!

Jul 5, 2019

About 22 years ago I sat in a church and listened to local activists from a national pressure group plan a campaign where they would...

Getting more from third party sustainability services

Oct 14, 2015

Friday before last saw the twelfth meeting of the Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group, held in the medieval Undercroft at the wonderful Live Theatre in Newcastle....

If this is war, we must use all the weapons at our disposal

Oct 6, 2014

Every Monday for the last couple of weeks, I've been mulling on one of my proposed Rules of the Pragmatic Environmentalist. This week, it is...

Is it time to learn to love carbon offsetting?

Feb 8, 2012

From a green point of view, one of the 'controversial' issues in The God Species is author Mark Lynas' call for a revival in carbon...

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This week's podcast episode is quite a remarkable story: Derrick Emsley is a multiple entrepreneur whose various businesses have planted 100,000,000 trees.

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How we planted 100 million trees, launched a clothing brand and built a nature-based solutions platform with Derrick Emsley

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