How to spend £10,000? My latest blog. Let’s say you are lucky enough to have won £10,000, or inherited it, or saved for it. What are the carbon emission associated with spending that money? What’s the best thing you could do for the Planet? www.carbonchoices.uk/index.php/bl...

Oh dear, 16 degrees centigrade yesterday in Stirling, the warmest November day in decades. Global warming is creeping up on us and on nature.

Sustainable Sicily? Volcanoes, drought, renewable energy, invasive species and emissions from flying.........read my latest blog. www.carbonchoices.uk/index.php/bl...

Communal lunch hall (with candles and flowers) along with 2500 attendees at the largest gathering of district heat professionals in the world, Odense, Denmark. The Danes are diversifying their heat sources, including a 70 MW water sourced heat pump used when electricity prices are low.

Massive 5MW air source heat pump in Denmark, with water preheated by solar panels. Makes the system more efficient for large scale district heating.

It's always heartening to see that people will cycle with the right infrastructure and support. Copenhagen has similar weather to the UK.

Why do reedlings ( also known as bearded tits) look so sad? #errol #ornithology

My first sighting of the glorious bearded tits, or reedlings, near the River Tay.

Amazing footage of boulders ejected from Stromboli volcano, rolling down 800m of scree and crashing into the sea. #Stromboli #volcanoes #sicily #italy

One for the geographers! Stromboli, Italy. Apparently, humans emit 50x more CO2 than volcanoes.

My latest blog is on fossil fuel subsidies? What are they? Why can't we simply abolish them? And please note that I have an improved secure website - you can now search all my climate blogs by keyword or category. www.carbonchoices.uk/index.php/bl...

It's wasp season at our compost heep. All part of the natural process.

Solar power is cheap and clean. Solar pv is the fastest growing energy source on the Planet and will soon become ubiquitous. In this blog I explain why. www.carbonchoices.uk/index.php/bl... #solar #pv

New 'green bridge' over M8 motorway connecting Sighthill to Glasgow city centre.

UK's largest wind farm at Whitelee,near Glasgow. Count the turbines! 500 MW, 215 turbines.

Wasps do have a use. Pollinating my raspberries.

Here are my top 12 favourite Climate Quotes. Do you know any better ones? www.carbonchoices.uk/index.php/bl...

Visited #Whitelee today. 215 turbines, the largest onshore windfarm in UK. Impressive scale, but these turbines are 'small' by today's more powerful standards. New battery storage too. Innovation in action.

Electric car club, Edinburgh. Are car share clubs working? How can we encourage them?

Does the UK need 1.5 million new homes? www.carbonchoices.uk/index.php/bl...

Handa Island is full of moorland and seabirds (sorry, no zoom camera). Guillemot, puffin, razorbill, wheatear... Well done Scottish Wildlife Trust for eradicating egg eating rats.

Crawled into a sea cave near remote Lochinver and it was full of disgusting plastic rubbish, from boats I guess.

Good efforts by The Assynt Foundation to plant native trees on the walk in to Suilven.

Scotland: Beautiful, but ecologically degraded? Is this an accurate description of Scotland? Are we really one of the most ecologically degraded countries in the world? Does rewilding offer hope? www.carbonchoices.uk/index.php/bl...

Newt at Flanders Moss raised bog. But lots of birch trees colonising naturally. Will they destroy this wetland? #flandersmoss #naturescot

Fraochaidh, Glencoe, Scotland. Beautiful, but this small loch has dried up and not one snow patch to be seen - this must be the least snowy winter on record.

My latest blog is on high speed trains. Are they a sustainable way to travel? Is HS2 a good idea? www.carbonchoices.uk/index.php/bl...

It is great to see this technology continuing yo improve.

Melted plastic treeguards following heath wildfires at Glen Rosa, Arran. New shoots already coming through.

Fantastic geological dyke on Arran, looking to Ailsa Craig.

Bike stand and electric bike charger. Arran, Scotland.

Who knew daisies had medicinal uses?

Food for thought.

Good reuse! Arran.

I enjoyed a talk at Dunblane ecofest by The Missing Lynx project. Lynx used to live in the UK. They would reduce roe deer numbers and help forests to thrive. #Lynx @dunblaneinfo.bsky.social

Blackwater Reservoir. An early hydro electric dam built 1910 and still operational. The graveyard is for the construction workers who lost their lives.

Beautiful Glencoe, Scotland, but where is the snow? There should, at least, be large patches at this time of year.

Aeroplane winglets save around 5% of fuel. These new split winglets save another 1 or 2%. It helps, a little.....

Most owners of electric cars in the UK will start paying £195 car tax from 1 April 2025. You can defer this by re-registering your car now (before 1 April) and get a further 12 months free of charge. You then won't need to pay £195 until March 2026. www.carbonchoices.uk/index.php/bl...?

My blog on changes to car taxes in the UK. Will this favour EVs? And a tip on how EV drivers can save up to £195 in car tax. www.carbonchoices.uk/index.php/bl...

Provides more stability for cheap, but intermittent wind power.

Lovely worms in my compost today!

Can tourism be green? What is your carbon footprint when travelling? Should I fly? Read my latest monthly blog: www.carbonchoices.uk/index.php/bl...

Can you guess the 3 skulls? All are creatures from Scotland now extinct. In Perth museum. #rewilding

This is Loch Turret, near Crieff, Scotland. I am very lucky as this reservoir provides our drinking water. Clean and tastes good.

Good to see. #ElectricVehicles #climate

How to beat Ultra Processed foods. I'm not a dietary expert but in my latest blog I discuss how to improve our diets and reduce the environmental impact. I even propose a radical idea to reduce the sale of ultra processed foods in supermarkets. www.carbonchoices.uk/index.php/bl...

Over a million homes lost power in #stormEowyn. This is a local walk near Stirling

An interesting solution to summer drought. I was in #Ladakh last summer, an amazing place. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I thought I'd move permanently from X to Bluesky, but when I post climate related topics here I get little response. Any suggestions?