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• https://www.outdoorphilosophy.co.uk/
• https://twitter.com/CarbonCycleKate
• How Not To Write A Bestseller - @carboncyclekate - https://www.instagram.com/p/B89CgoEFLaj/
• #18: it's easier to write a book in other people's homes because you can't tidy other people's sock drawers!
• Tips to avoid writing: get out on your bike most days, take on a rescue dog
• Prioritising quality of life over income is key to the work/life balance
• Sea kayaking to the Outer Hebrides is better than a 'decent' income
• Adventure Plus: loved adventure, learned a lot about climate change, but nothing much seemed to be happening
• How could she bring her love of adventure together with her learning about climate change, and offer a "wake up!" cry
• The Carbon Cycle - ride from Texas to Alaska in the most oil-ravenous place on Earth.
• Bringing the climate change story to an audience that didn't usually hear it. 
• The Carbon Cycle book - https://www.outdoorphilosophy.co.uk/carbon-cycle/the-book/
• If you're going to talk about oil, go to America.
• The attitudes to ClimateChange she encountered varied from blank faces, having never heard of it, thought it was a myth, God's will, or that the government would fix it. And then some people who were very keen on fixing it.
• Kate loves travelling in America - the people, the landscapes, the generosity, the variety
• Whitman Alabama - https://whitmanalabama.com/
• I am not athletic, got into cycling as a way of commuting.
• Cycling is an amazing way for even unfit people to cover miles. Every mundane journey becomes an adventure
• A bike is like a magician - it scatters adventure all around you.
• The idea that I can conquer mountains is ludicrous and I dislike that narrative with a passion. 
• Overcoming nature is an inappropriate narrative right now - the idea that we can 'defeat' nature has got us into a heck of a lot of trouble over the years
• I think we need a different narrative now - we are part of nature. I like to think of myself as a citizen of an ecological community (on the same terms as everything else) - that really helps shift perspective
• It's not just a human community - it's an everything community
• Her ride through America changed her opinion of her carbon footprint. Flying to the US, she realised, demonstrated a mindset that is exactly part of the problem, "well my flight is different, my flight is special, my flight is justified."
• Kate is on a flight ration - once every 3 years. Works well when talking to people rather than saying "quit flying"
• It is not possible to tackle climate change without changing our lifestyles. Yet consumerism is not really the best, happiest lifestyle is it?
• Number of bikes needed = n+1 [where 'n' = number you currently have]
• Number of bikes needed = s-1 [where 's' = number at which your partner dumps you]
• Outdoor brands: Adventure can stand for a different model of 'quality of life' if it is about connection with nature, quality of experience, time outdoors, pushing yourself in different ways.
• If everyone on the Earth lived life by US lifestyle standards we would need 4 planets.
• A quality of life that is about time and connection and experience; not stuff
• And yet brands also need to sell Stuff (because of the system we are in)
• Systemic change so that people sell what they have to sell, not as much as possible
• Stuff - also oil-based and has a terrible environmental footprint
• Flying and Stuff are two of the biggest problems in adventure
• Reuse and mend the stuff we have already got
• Buy second hand where possible 
• Ask brands "what is your sustainability policy" to avoid them doing a lame 'greenwash'
• Patagonia is way ahead of the other brands in terms of environmental work
• Outdoor Philosophy: the relationship between people and nature. Began taking those conversations outdoors, with sea kayaks if possible!
• Do we think of ourselves as part of nature, dominating nature or in nature?
• Our relationship with nature is dysfunctional - that is the root cause of climate change, environmental destruction and biodiversity loss
• Favourite whisky: Lagavulin - or any Islay malt. Laphroaig
• Talisker Storm adventure - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js-mn9bu1Q0
• Life cycle journey - riding the length of South America - https://www.outdoorphilosophy.co.uk/life-cycle/the-bamboo-bicycle/
• The Bamboo Bicycle Club - https://www.bamboobicycleclub.org/en/
• The Eden Project - https://www.edenproject.com/
• Woody (her bike) is the UK's first homegrown bicycle
• Cycling South America on a bamboo bike - it was the most reliable bike she has ever ridden
• Kate travelled to South America by ship - reduced 2 tonnes of CO2 to 50kg
• How bad are bananas? 
• Loved crossing the Atlantic by boat. It's a good decompress between the stress of getting ready for a trip and beginning the journey.
• Being out of sight of land is really important: it helps put things in perspective
• It should be planet Ocean, not planet Earth
• Getting a ride on a cargo ship - you have to go via a broker
• The Panama Canal
• Cycling to the Ashes - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00CPR6H44/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8
• School in Colombia - a Turtle school where all work is based around turtles; the whole curriculum
• Benefit of Andes over Rockies - no bears!
• Bicycles up Kilimanjaro - the Crane cousins - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bicycles-Up-Kilimanjaro-Richard-Crane/dp/0946609497
• Kit Crane - http://www.kitridestheworld.com/
• Happy periods of life: getting to Ushuaia; exhausted and exhilarated
• My partner is my non-famous hero. 
• There is a lot of disconnect between her age [57], how old she feels [31], and society's perceptions of what she should be doing / how she should be behaving.