Climate Futures

What is a Carbon Footprint?

You can’t manage what you can’t measure. The carbon footprint, as Mike Berners-Lee, author of the book How Bad are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything, explains it, is the climate change metric we should all be looking at and learn to manage. His explanation avoids…

Urban Heat Island Effect

Concrete jungles aren’t just where dreams are made (sorry Alicia Keys), they are also the stage for the far less glamorous urban heat island effect.

If you have visited a city in your lifetime, you may have noticed they have more pavement and fewer trees than…