Lend me your ears! Ozone, climate change and Donald Trump
I now have a bit less ear than I woke up with on Friday morning. Later that day, a friendly and highly professional bunch of...
Turning Trauma into Purpose with Stuart Green
In 2017, Stuart Green suffered the kind of loss we all dread. His wife Mia, a human rights and environmental lawyer, was brutally murdered by...
AI and Net Zero: I have thoughts…
Back in 1993, I coded a recurrent neural network as my final year degree project (the only part of my finals where I got a...
Change-making or box-ticking? Sustainability doesn’t have to be a grind
I was bemused last week by a light-hearted post on LinkedIn listing the rights of passage of junior Sustainability professionals - eg "Sending out 700...
The State of the Sustainability Profession with Sarah Mukherjee, CEO of ISEP
Given the Net Zero Business Podcast is aimed at sustainability professionals, I thought it was about time we looked at the state of the profession...
There is Power in a Union, but is it Clean Power?
Back in the mists of time, as callow trainee civil servant, I used to get shunted around the country to various locations to gain experience....
Embracing irrationality in Sustainability
Regular readers will know that I've been feeding the trolls recently, partially to push back on some nonsense, partially to sharpen my arguments, partially to...
He’s an EV Lover – Jordan Marsden, the EV Guy
Another fantastic interview for you this week with the EV Guy himself, Jordan Marsden. In a wide ranging discussion, we cover: • The state of...
Should we feed the clean energy trolls?
My LinkedIn algorithm is kicking up quite a few anti-Net Zero tracts at the minute. Needless to say, the vast majority come from people with...
Book Review: Volt Rush by Henry Sanderson
Back in the winter of 2004, the Prof and I ticked an item off our bucket list by travelling from St Petersburg to Beijing on...