For Veganuary I delivered this lecture to 100 Civil Servants that are part of the Department for Education Vegan Network on the best way to lower your carbon footprint.

The talk starts with a quiz created by Van der Linden, S. (2022) on What’s the Best Way to Shrink Your Carbon Footprint? New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/15/opinion/how-reduce-carbon-footprint-climate-change.html

If you're a nerd like me, you may be interested in the meta-study that the quiz is based on: Ivanova, D., Barrett, J., Wiedenhofer, D., Macura, B., Callaghan, M., & Creutzig, F. (2020). Quantifying the potential for climate change mitigation of consumption options. Environmental Research Letters, 15(9), 093001. Available at: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab8589

If you have issues accessing any of the articles mentioned feel free to get in touch and I can send PDFs. 

If you learned anything or want to ask questions also send me a message at Ellsworthkrebs@gmail.com

For slides and full references click here: https://www.litvegan.net/2022/10/memoir-by-katherine-ellsworth-krebs.html?fbclid=IwAR0fal0KTOJeLM1ZKTM4-z3kU3q_hu9pNyTt-ihADt0S8Ic_pVnZ0OS_w2I

Does coaching sometimes sound like a pyramid scheme? Or like it is just one more failing by you if you can't manage your mind enough to transform your work culture to not be about overwork?

In this episode I talk about what I'm learning in the course the Politics of Trauma about the connection between individual and systemic change. This week we had an interview with the co-founder of Black Lives Matter, Alicia Garza, and it reminded me that coaching is about learning to be a super-hero, to self-regulate, so that you can keep showing up as an activist with a vision for a better world.

I loved Alicia's statement that she is in it for the long haul, and being able to feel her feelings and self-regulate is one of the most essential skills in this process.

Find out more about the Politics of Trauma on Staici Haines website:

https://www.stacihaines.com/enroll

Lupins are popping up all over my allotment and flowering in their first year! When I first started growing lupins I was too frustrated to wait a year for blooms.. but I tried (although the lupin seedlings in the story I read were eaten by bunnies) and now my favourite flowers are reminding me of my passion to stay grounded.

To make sense of trying to fly less, I wrote a few pieces last year about my relationship to flying, and in this episode I read one of those published short stories 'Staying Grounded' as well as my reflections on the challenge I posed myself: When someone mentions having time off, instead of asking, “what exciting places are you going to on your holiday, I’ll ask: ‘What are you cultivating at your feet?’” 

Story can be read here: https://writersrebel.com/staying-grounded/