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Jacob Ashton

Paying Nature for its Trouble: Lessons from Costa Rica

We all know that nature is good for us. Aside from looking nice, it provides us with the most fundamental services we need to live: water…

Nov 20, 2023

Paying Nature for its Trouble: Lessons from Costa Rica

Nov 20, 2023

Why — and how — I’m donating 5% of my income to charity

For better or worse, money is powerful. Whether a company, a movement or an initiative survives often comes down to cold hard cash. This…

Dec 11, 2020

Why — and how — I’m donating 5% of my income to charity

Dec 11, 2020

Coronavirus and Climate Change: Lessons for Restructuring Society

The coronavirus outbreak is changing the world at a scale and pace not seen since the Second World War. Billions of people in lockdown…

Apr 6, 2020

Coronavirus and Climate Change: Lessons for Restructuring Society

Apr 6, 2020

Forget the Rest — How Will the Climate Crisis Affect ME, a Man of Privilege?

I don’t like to brag, but life dealt me a pretty good hand. I can pay my rent and my grocery bills. I have the means to travel, to see…

Jan 26, 2020

Forget the Rest — How Will the Climate Crisis Affect ME, a Man of Privilege?

Jan 26, 2020

My Friend in Oil Exploration, and Other Environmental Moral Dilemmas

I recently learnt that a friend from university is now working in oil exploration. I did not take the news well. After my initial…

Oct 20, 2019

My Friend in Oil Exploration, and Other Environmental Moral Dilemmas

Oct 20, 2019

Can We, The Little People, Actually Do Anything About Climate Change?

Climate change has rocketed up the public agenda. Many citizens around the world now believe climate change to be the greatest threat to…

Aug 26, 2019

Can We, The Little People, Actually Do Anything About Climate Change?

Aug 26, 2019

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Age of Awareness

Living Low-Carbon and Lazy: Can it be Done?

I tried going fully vegan. It was obviously the ‘right’ thing to do, for so many reasons. It started off well enough — I’d been veggie my…

Jun 14, 2019

Living Low-Carbon and Lazy: Can it be Done?

Jun 14, 2019

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Age of Awareness

Let’s Pretend Climate Change Isn’t Real

Climate change is difficult to conceptualise. Could it be combated without even thinking about it — by focusing on just the short term?

May 12, 2019

Let’s Pretend Climate Change Isn’t Real

May 12, 2019

A Climate for Change on Climate Change: Keeping the Momentum

Climate change is in the news. The fact that this is notable in itself is a travesty, but it’s promising that we seem to be there at last…

Apr 29, 2019

A Climate for Change on Climate Change: Keeping the Momentum

Apr 29, 2019

Fitting Flying into the Eco-Conscience

It’s not often talked about, but there is a shameful secret amongst the environmentally enlightened. The very same people that…

Apr 14, 2019

Fitting Flying into the Eco-Conscience

Apr 14, 2019

Jacob Ashton

Jacob Ashton

Having studied zoology at university, I have now turned to scientific communication. I write a bit of everything, but climate change features most strongly.

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