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February 16, 2021

Great prompt from Margaret Klein Salamon to add an Indian city to your weather app. Currently India is experiencing an extreme heatwave, made more likely by climate change. Small ways to bring the unseen suffering of millions of people into our lives in a way that dares us to care deeply and act justly in our everyday lives. What temperature is someone else waking up to today? How can we act to prevent global temperatures rising? And remember this isn’t about 1.5 degrees or bust, this is fighting for every 0.0001 degree that means lives saved. If you’re following me, chances are you’re already acting, you are so needed! Thank you! Who could you talk to today to empower and support them to act too? Add to your app and then have a chat 🌍🌱❤️

Lots of fun yesterday hanging out with @greensaloncollective dream team @stephanievanhalder and @1234fry chatting all things accreditation and seeing all the cool R&D happening with recycled hair! All in the beautiful @kycutwilson @thesocialldn salon. I absolutely love what GSC are doing, not just doing things better but doing better things (to quote @markshayler) and empowering an entire industry to up its game and think TRUE circularity. So proud to be working with this awesome team.

So it’s another #internationalwomensday and the theme this year is ‘gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow’. Oof. Where to start?! Well luckily Kate Raworth already has some thoughts on how we tackle the systemic inequality at the heart of our economic system, so I’m letting her words take centre stage here. Women are consistently left to pick up the pieces of broken systems, which includes the terrifying fallout from conflict as we are seeing in Ukraine, and as we have seen with every human conflict in history, but also the day to day minutiae of life that keeps everyone going. And women do this work, unthanked, unpaid, unacknowledged, again and again and again, unapologetically choosing love and care in a world that too often shows us hatred and violence. So this #iwd2022 I won’t be looking for inspiration but instead for liberation. The origins of IWD lie in the struggle for migrant worker’s rights, so instead of using it to sell crap we don’t need, perhaps companies could mark the day by eliminating the gender pay gap, remunerating female workers in supply chains generously and reworking their business models into a safe and just space for humanity. A hat tip to all the awesome women I know who are working on shifting horror stories to love stories, you know who you are 🌍🍩❤️🌱 p.s if anyone tells you to ‘lean in’ today then point out that women will fall over if we’re asked to lean any further.

Always good to see your work in the wild! Cannot recommend @ellahairsalon208 enough to anyone local to Cheltenham, great service, even through to showing my son exactly where his hair was going in the recycling thanks to @greensaloncollective he was very chuffed to know it wasn’t going to waste!

Glasgow was exhausting but energising, all the good stuff was happening outside the blue zone, and mostly outside the green zone too. And yet it’s what happens in the blue zone this week that will impact us all. In another way though, it’s all the community stuff, the new ideas and the passion of the fringe events that we can choose to impact us. Find your niche and your people, look for those determinedly driving change even in the face of despair. Remember hope isn’t a passive thing, ‘Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal... To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.’

COP26 memories part two

COP26 memories part 1

En route to COP26 - full video from my earlier post here!

I’m currently en route to Glasgow for #cop26 so I thought I’d make a little video to explain why. I also totally neglected to say that I’ll also be doing lots of talking about community climate action and the @planetcheltenhaminsta project, especially gathering lots of ideas for the Youth Climate Group. If you’ve got any questions or thoughts then let me know in the comments below. I’m hoping to do some videos while I’m up there too so stay tuned. Edit: just realised I said I was in the same country, obviously I meant in the UK!

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