Why you should be reading positive news. Something that really struck me reading David Attenborough’s “A Life on our Planet” was the thoughtful way it was structured. The first half of the book was really quite devastating. Attenborough describes the ways that we have destroyed the world and the fairly terrifying direction in which the…

Over the years, I’ve heard of a wide range of unique ideas on how to tackle climate change—which is good! Having plenty of options can only do good. But sometimes I can’t help but stare at the latest headlines and wonder what the pitch meeting for some of these ideas must have been like. Carbon…

In the race to halt climate change, overpopulation was a common point of concern. The popular conception was that the human population would increase exponentially until we ran out of resources. The theory dates from the 1700’s, when Thomas Malthus pointed out that resources such as land area for crops are finite, while human populations…

We all know bees. Anyone who likes flowers in their garden inevitably has to put up with them. I would also sincerely hope that most of you reading this understand their importance to the ecosystem. It has often been said that bees are responsible for one out of every three bites of food we eat….

If you’re a fan of literature—particularly science fiction—then you’re likely to have heard the term cyberpunk. Cyberpunk is a genre of fiction centred around the transformative effects of advanced science, information technology, computers, and cybernetics (“cyber”) coupled with a breakdown or radical change in the social order (“punk”).  The cyberpunk genre is generally credited as…