Lizzie Rose

1 month ago | curious.earth | Lizzie Rose

There’s no time quite like the first few weeks of Spring, with birdsong filling the air and patches of brightly coloured flowers popping up all around. Even in the middle of the busiest cities, urban wildlife blooms and, aided by the longer stretches of sun, lifts us all from the gloominess of winter. Yet, despite delighting in the trills, cheeps, and symphonies of the birds that live in the city, few of us can name all the species involved.

2 months ago | curious.earth | Lizzie Rose

A few decades ago, if you paid good money for a product, say a pair of shoes, or a telephone, you would expect it to last you at least a few years, if not decades. Fast forward to today. Products are produced en masse, as cheaply as possible, with intentionally poor design, so they break quickly, and it is cheaper to buy new, than to repair most items. Worse still, many products are designed to be impossible to fix, even when we want to!Lots of people recognise this phenomenon is problematic.

Dec 4, 2024 | curious.earth | Lizzie Rose

In my years working as a bookseller I was often struck by how many books were labelled ‘best seller’ or ‘the most important book of the year’ or, my personal favourite, ‘THIS is a book people are reading’ (ok, yeah, that’s the point!). Indeed, nearly every book in the shop had been labelled ‘essential reading’ by somebody.

Nov 6, 2024 | curious.earth | Lizzie Rose

Heard of COP29 but not entirely sure what it is? COP stands for conference of the parties. Most international conventions have a yearly or bi-yearly COP, sometimes this is referred to as the meeting of parties (MOP) or plenary. This meeting is where representatives of Member nation states who have signed a convention (and some observer organisations and non-Member states) meet to discuss and ensure the implementation of the convention’s goals.

Oct 13, 2024 | curious.earth | Lizzie Rose

In October 2022 two young activists did something entirely unexpected. They smuggled tomato soup into the National Gallery, removed their jumpers to reveal t-shirts reading ‘Just Stop Oil’, and threw soup all over Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ 1888 – a priceless piece of art. Last week they were to a combined 3 and ½ years in prison for this act. However, rather than this harsh sentence serving as a deterrent, ‘Solidarity with Soup Throwers’ fast became a rallying call across the world.