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...
My simple green ‘life hack’ which can be used in the corporate world
At the weekend the Guardian was running a climate special. In one article, they asked climate experts what they were doing personally to cut their...
Why Theresa May made that net zero carbon commitment
Many of us were very pleasantly surprised when the supposedly lame duck Prime Minister Theresa May used her last weeks in office to push through...
When push comes to shove on climate…
The planned third runway at Heathrow is fast becoming the litmus test for climate policy in UK politics. PM David Cameron (2010-2016) opposed it, before...
What Boardman’s Belisha Battle tells us about Sustainability
Olympic gold medallist and yellow-jersey wearer Chris Boardman has been butting up against a brick wall of bureaucracy in his role as walking and cycling commissioner...
Can your employees talk Sustainability?
Last week I had surgery at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary to fix a hernia (I may have mentioned it once or twice...). As I was...
Is there now a British political consensus on climate change?
There was a very telling moment in last night's Channel 4 TV hustings for the Conservative Party leadership, and thus Prime Minister at least for...
The costs of ‘do nothing’ on climate
There's been a minor ding-dong in the UK with a leaked report from Chancellor Philip Hammond warning the 'cost' of meeting a proposed 'net zero'...
Turtle-ly awesome Green Jujitsu
Today's 'green day' at our local primary school, so the younger two have gone dressed in green for an eco-themed day. Jimmy, middle child, has...
How successful will the refillable shopping model be?
I've been following the story of the Waitrose 'plastic free' experiment in Oxford where consumers bring their own cartons for refills of loose goods such...