The Edit: Earth Day
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Building a forest, octopus time and more in this week’s #TheEdit.
- How to build a forest from scratch – in pictures. Bristol-based charity Forest of Avon Trust has recently acquired 100 acres of grazed farmland in Somerset, with the goal of creating the Great Avon Wood – The Guardian
- TIME’s Earth Awards. Their first honourees embody values they see as pillars of a more sustainable future – TIME
- Solving climate change is not an issue where we ‘succeed or fail’. A climate reporter explains the findings of the IPCC report and why the crisis never really fades from the news cycle – The New York Times
- Octopus time. Humans are forward-facing, gravity-bound. The liquid motion of the octopus can radicalise our ideas about time – Aeon
- Europe is spluttering its way to better air quality. The land of 15-minute cities still needs to do more to reduce its air pollution – The Economist
- How difficult is it to fix a workplace that’s gone wrong? What you can do to turn around a toxic workplace culture – FT Podcast
- The most successful approaches to leading organisational change. Leaders often give too much attention to the what of organisational change, not the how – Harvard Business Review
- No hard feelings. It is emotion, not logic, that guides much of the way we do business – The Beautiful Truth
“We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.”
Barack Obama