How Much Money Do You Need To Reduce Carbon?
Fun, Friendly, Factful newsletter #152
Our main article reflects on three years of the See Through project, asking how long we can ride the zero-budget horse, how much money we might eventually need if we did switch to the money horse, where we’d point it, and to what purpose…
Our video is another sneak peek at unseen footage about one of Britain’s best-known natural builders, who famously built his beautiful house in the woods from local materials with a bunch of mates for less than most people spend on a car.
Our podcast is all about what can be done without money. The true story of what happened when See Through received an unsolicited donation of half a million dollars worth of supercomputer processing, the only string attached being an expiry date less than five months away…
Main Article
How Much Money Do You Need To Reduce Carbon?
See Through may have achieved a lot in three years, but when it comes to making an impact at scale, are we just monkeys climbing trees to reach the moon?
If, as many think, this requires money, then how much, how should we raise it, and what should we spend it on?
Video
Ben Law is best known as The Man Who Built His House In The Woods, the most popular episode of the long-running self-build documentary series Grand Designs.
Astonishing though his house is, it was peripheral to his off-grid, sustainable life as a coppicing woodsman. In this Prologue, we meet Ben as he invites candidate apprentices to his Prickly Nut Wood home, before deciding which two will work with him for the next year…
Podcast
Money, and what you can do without it, is the at the heart of the true story told in this first series of The See Through News Podcast.
AI’s Dirty Secret or How To Spend Half A Million Dollars of Supercomputing reveals how not having money can both inspire substantial donations, and come up with complex, creative solutions to spending them meaningfully.