Who remembers Local Agenda 21?
On Sunday morning, during my Government sanctioned outing to the shop, I found an A4 sheet of paper crudely pasted to a noticeboard in our...
Should we stop talking about a climate emergency/crisis?
I've been enjoying my Thursday morning Sustainability Professional Zoom chats hosted by Penny Walker and Susannah Roffe. At last week's meeting, I posited the question: given...
Why we will never win the argument on climate change
Sometimes a diagram sums up a whole load of messy thoughts and when I saw the graph below on what will inevitably happen when we...
Doing the right thing (and being seen to do the right thing)
I’m sure many of us are having our hearts warmed by the many positive actions we see in these dark days. The volunteers taking supplies...
We should be taking it easy on ourselves…
It was my birthday yesterday and Mrs K's planned birthday treat of a night away from the kids at a hotel with red squirrels in...
School of Mum & Dad, week 1
Like many parents around the globe, Mrs K and I have been landed with the job of educating our brood ourselves. And what a week....
When push comes to nudge – behaviour change lessons from social distancing
Well, that escalated quickly. From a simple message of “wash your hands” and “stay inside if you have a cough/fever”, now everything is closed, our...
Terra Infirma: We’re open for business
These are undoubtedly the strangest times I have lived through and the Covid-19 outbreak will undoubtedly be disruptive to Terra Infirma as well as our...
Why we fear the coronavirus more than climate change
Over the last couple of weeks, my Twitter feed has had plenty of "why are we happy to disrupt daily life over the coronavirus, but...
Beware the ‘perfection or nothing’ delusion in Sustainability
Here's a couple of arguments I've heard recently against moves towards a more Sustainable economy: Coal is needed for steel manufacture. Not everybody can cycle....