Here at Curious Earth, we talk a lot about the role privilege plays in the climate crisis. We try to raise awareness of the disproportionate impacts of environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, and extreme weather events on the global south and many other marginalised groups. (Check out our Stories from the Frontline series to hear directly from those worst affected.) Yet, we also want…
Microfinance – how it can protect the most vulnerable against the effects of climate change and incentivise sustainable business practices.
I’m starting to feel my age. Hipster businesses are emerging with ‘innovative’ solutions to steer us towards more environmentally friendly everyday products. But, like a 90s boy-band revival, it would seem that there’s nothing new here! Now, don’t get me wrong – I don’t doubt that it’s the vigour of today’s vicennials that can lynchpin our ecological hopes with action. Indeed, their…
You read your news via alerts, your shopping receipts come as an email, and you flip photos on your screen, not through your fingers. Digital products are saving trees, energy and emissions – right? Sadly, not necessarily. “If the internet were a country, it would be the 6th largest user of electricity behind China, the US, Japan, India and Russia.” 😱 As…
How a healthy symbiosis between our wellbeing and our world could potentially bolster both. We’re in a crisis. Nay, two crises. Our minds are as polluted as our rivers. Our resilience depleting like ice caps. Our thoughts more cluttered than landfill. “Nature” is the theme of this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week, which has blown the need for a mutual wind-of-change to…
Fairtrade beans and plant-based milk makes your daily habit an eco cup of gold, right? Well, we look into how your method of preparation could actually be making the planet more than just a little bit despressod… Like my curious.earth peers, before most acts of consumption, I stop in my vegan-Birkenstock made tracks and reflect upon the sustainability implications of my choices.…
The budget announcement of last week has been viewed by many within the green community as underwhelming and insufficient. This week we’re exploring where and how the government could be doing more to stimulate a green recovery. The opacity we are facing in assessing the budget’s green policies is seemingly densening, as the latest critics of Rishi Sunak’s budget scramble to draw…
Money makes the world go round, so the old adage says, and with the asset management market worth an estimated $110 trillion, that’s plenty of inertia. As we know, the rise of the conscious consumer has increasingly channelled that force into buying products which go some way towards protecting the environment – but there’s only so much that switching to reusable cups,…
We explore how large investors are changing environmental practises of companies from within… When implementing a sustainable investment strategy there are multiple paths to take: ‘Screening’ is one of the most commonly used approaches, with the vast majority of asset managers claiming to be doing this across their investment universe. This consists of the exclusion of investments from a portfolio of the…
