How can we get out into nature and have a nice time without kicking the ecosystems we ride through in the face?| Phil Sturgeon
Digital nomad, writing about APIs, van life, and unfucking the planet through reforestation and green tech.| Phil Sturgeon
Attempting to end the infighting on tree planting vs natural regeneration so we can all focus on getting on the critical job of doing loads of both, and when we are planting, let's do it properly.| Phil Sturgeon
How can you write automated tests for Laravel Nova Actions, without firing up a whole browser simulation headache?| Phil Sturgeon
Hire me to help you with whatever API, HTTP, OpenAPI, or system architecture troubles you're dealing with.| Phil Sturgeon
I co-found Protect Earth in 2020 and none of us knew how big it would become. We plant tens of thousands of trees all over the country every year, and for me that work is entirely unpaid. Being brutally honest I could do with some help.| Phil Sturgeon
The Internet, good or bad? It's causing about 4% of global emissions, so either way we should probably do something about that, and the Green Software Foundation is here to help us figure out what to do.| Phil Sturgeon
You may have heard about High-Speed Rail 2, and you may have heard that it was going to (or already had) destroyed 108 ancient woodlands. That is not true. It was never true, not even before the Tories slashed the plans for Hs2 to pieces.| Phil Sturgeon
Good climate news in weird dark fascist times: no new oil and gas at rosebank or jackdaw oil fields, a UK deposit return scheme, and recovering lync populations in Portugal.| Phil Sturgeon
Dale Vince has been lying about heat pumps for days so he can sell more vegan gas. WTF does that even mean?| Phil Sturgeon
We need your help to plant 100,000 trees this year, as 60,000 spade ready projects have no funding and will have to be delayed until next winter.| Phil Sturgeon
Renewables are overtaking fossil fuels in EU and aren't slowing down, super cute baby beavers are born in London for the first time in 400 years, and car free is becoming more of a reality as cities make improvements.| Phil Sturgeon
I will be sharing good news for climate, wildlife, and the environment in general each week, avoiding (and highlighting) greenwashing, and sharing some petitions you can sign to get us more good news in weeks to come.| Phil Sturgeon
I popped on the legondary Erik Wilde's YouTube channel to talk about green tech, which uses creative and cost-effective solutions to reduce the environmental footprint of your web stack, data centers, and APIs.| Phil Sturgeon
Carbon offsetting often sparks heated debatesbut the issue is not with carbon offsetting, but with the flawed concept of carbon neutrality.| Phil Sturgeon
Renewable energy is not just the cleanest way to generate electricity, it has long been the cheapest. Switching our fossil fuel energy systems over to renewable energy around the world is not just crucial to the climate crisis, but will save a huge amount of money for all of us.| Phil Sturgeon
Reducing every discussion down to NIMBY/YIMBY ignores that fact that every single project has its own particular cost/benefit analysis and environmental impact assessment.| Phil Sturgeon
Being entirely reliant on expensive polluting forms of transport has become an unfortunate reality for many people, and as the climate crisis they’ve exacerbated is increasingly washing those vehicles into the sea, we need to ask ourselves, is there another way?| Phil Sturgeon
Electric cars are often talked about in a really weird false dichotomy whether they're either a silver bullet or worse than petrol cars, but what is anyone even talking about? Let's dive in.| Phil Sturgeon