Beelines: a lovely example of Green Jujitsu
Recently, I've been looking enviously at the Manchester Beelines project to bring together 1000 miles of cycle routes across the Greater Manchester area. While the...
No, Sustainability is not ‘a balance’
On Monday I griped about a Sustainability book I was sent for review. The sentence which made my heart drop was 'basically speaking, Sustainability is...
How to write a Sustainability book
I've written five books on business and Sustainability, all of which I'm pretty proud of, and I know first hand how much effort goes in...
Whither Sustainability under Boris?
And so it came to pass that Boris Johnson took up the position he craved as a young boy, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom...
Economic growth in a finite world – not as daft as it sounds
One line which is often trotted out by green activists, most recently by the rather wonderful Greta Thunberg, is "you can't have economic growth in...
Sustainability as a moonshot?
As we wallow in moon-landing nostalgia (fake nostalgia in my case, I was minus two years old at the time, but hey...), it reminded me...
Looks like carbon offshoring is starting to be taken seriously…
For decades I've been banging away that the whole "the UK only emits 2% of global emissions" is nonsense. Yes, 2% may actually be released...
There’s always one… (being negative about Sustainability)
Mrs K, aka Professor Karen Johnson, has appeared as a talking head in a Guardian video about soil health (see above). She's super excited getting...
Making Sustainability The New Normal
Yesterday afternoon I pulled on my lycra, got on my bike and headed off into Northumberland to watch the end of the Beaumont Trophy –...
Trees, please!
About 22 years ago I sat in a church and listened to local activists from a national pressure group plan a campaign where they would...