BK 93: (Apr 7, 2026) The Joyful Environmentalist (Revised and Updated 2nd Edition with New Material): How to Practise without Preaching

Our Apr 7th meeting we will be discussion the book The Joyful Environmentalist (Revised and Updated 2nd Edition with New Material): How to Practise without Preaching by Isabel Losada  (Apr 8, 2025). With approximately 298 reading pages it is approximately 8 pages a day. 

Check out the Bio, links Podcasts and Videos below:  

"Fully updated and revised edition of Isabel Losada's highly endorsed, feel good guide to how we all need to live now and how it will enrich our lives. Accessible, funny and practical steps to saving the planet that will encourage readers to take action.

Finally! A book about saving our planet that is fast, funny and inspiring too. Written in short chapters for busy people, Isabel doesn’t bother with an examination of the problem but gets right on with the solutions. Her aim: to look for every single way we can take care of the planet; how we live and work, travel, shop, eat, drink, dress, vote, play, volunteer, bank – everything. And to do this wholeheartedly, energetically and joyfully.

Beginning with losing her cool in a restaurant that will only provide plastic cutlery, Isabel journeys through native tree planting in the Highlands of Scotland, playing Samba drums with Extinction Rebellion, interviewing in person the people that supply her energy and food – through every solution she can find – until both narrator and reader are fully equipped to be part of the pollution solution.

"She gave my spirit a lift and my feet somewhere to stand." – Sir Mark Rylance"

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This is what we discussed at the meeting...

* Member updating on activities in Washington

* General Impressions of the book

* Dinos/Unicorns

* Mycorrhizal fungi and charcoal with eat tree & planted in 3s

* Trees communicating with each other 

* Ecosia search engine plants trees

* Removing plastic (some issues in what she said)

* Carbon footprint of emails

* Mass Data Center footprint and water

* Google and FB goals vs Data centers

* LED bulbs

* Hand Sanitizer

* Cowspiracy Green house gasses 

* Plant Based Diet

* Food Revolution Network Summit 2026

* Pepper with Turmeric

* Cows producing 10x milk and mastitis

* Vegan diet and carbon footprint

* How many vegans in UK & US

* Cost of Organic food vs if  you add climate damage to price of nonorganic food

* More packaging with organic food

* Her Protesting

* Wasted food

* Idling engines

* Unrealistic US on grandparents living near kids/grandkids, especially multiple kids

* Avoid Palm Oil

* Suet Balls

* Peanuts bad for Squirrels, deprives them of Calcium

* Companies rather pay fine than protect trees

* Injuries due to trees falling vs other injuries

* Lawyers protecting trees

* Gas vs Electric

* Land and food for livestock

* Isabella Tree & Family farm let go wild

* Buses (Electric/Hydro)

* Electric Scooters

* Pioneer Species Scotland

* Biodynamic Farming

* Plastic for Military absorbs Oxygen

* Mealworms

* Drinking bottles with Filters

* Honeysuckle

* Goats/Deer eating tree saplings

* Trees for Cities

* Double glazing

* Pit Fires, fireplaces & burning leaves

* Show & Tell of Fungi products

* Garden Club Meeting on Bees 23rd at 5:30pm

* Next Green Drinks at Restoration Works 6pm on the 21st

** If I have missed anything please let me know!