What’s Going On Here? This week we see huge news in the climate change sector as legendary Curious.Earther Helen turns 30. The news has sent shockwaves through the industry as readers of her amazing content assumed she was 50+ given the extent of her sustainability knowledge. What Does This Mean? Well a birthday is one thing, but 30! Wow, that’s serious stuff!…
Last week was World Sustainable Procurement Day, the first of its kind organised by a group called the Sustainable Procurement Pledge. As the day and name suggest, it’s an organisation run for producing folk who are interested in pushing forward the climate agenda in their organisations. I attended a few of the events during the day and found it really insightful., One…
Welcome to the curious.earth sustainability quiz for 2021! We have taken a look back over the year and found the sustainability highlights – but can you remember them? Loading…
We’re taking a curious look at the gender gap on social media and how this relates to the real-life gender gap in climate science. Here at Curious.Earth we noticed that a surprising percentage of our Instagram followers identify as women – a staggering 71.8%! We decided to undertake some new research and find out whether other climate crisis related accounts had the…
Welcome to our celebrations for Earth Day 2021, and what better way to celebrate this outstanding organisation and the work they are doing to protect and save the earth, than by looking at the women who are leading the way in climate sciences. Often overlooked, but never any less important, women of colour and diversity have often overcome challenges from their cultures…
What’s Going On Here? Curious.Earth has received sponsorship from The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) to run a series of climate-science social media posts targeting audiences who aren’t typically exposed to inspirational scientific content. What Does This Mean? Science is often considered less accessible by, and for, people from certain backgrounds. Relatively few girls, children from families with less advantaged circumstances, and…
The climate of our little blue planet has changed throughout its life, through natural causes. Timescales of these natural causes of climate change can be measured in hundreds and even millions of years, meaning it can take a long time for the effects to build and the effects stick around even longer until the next big shift. Climate change is now heavily…
What’s Going On Here? Global Action Plan, the Philips Foundation and the University of Manchester (UoM) reveal results from new modelling which suggests that maintaining lower air pollution levels by 20% could improve the development of a child’s working memory by 6%, the equivalent of four weeks extra learning time per year. The announcement has been made today, 8th October on National Clean Air…
DIY tools are big business, with sales for 2020 forecast to be worth over $30bn USD – equivalent to the GDP of Iceland! But the majority of these tools are purchased for household use, which by all accounts isn’t very much use at all. According to Danish researchers at Concito: Hand drills get used for approximately 18 minutes in their lifetime, whilst…