We’ve known for a long time what the answer to Sustainability is
About this time of year, 27 years ago, I was prepping for my first ever interview for a job in Sustainability. I thought it was...
COP30: Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas, but Christmas comes anyway
So, another COP, another few steps forward but skirting carefully around the elephant in the room: the burning of fossil fuels. A huge effort by...
What I’ve Learnt in Year 2 of the Net Zero Business Podcast
Blimey O'Reilly! It's two years since I launched the Net Zero Business Podcast! Anniversaries are always a good time to reflect on the past. In...
Flights of Fancy: Cargo Cult Science and the Pursuit of Growth
A couple of things happened within days of each other last month and I've only just picked up on the coincidence. On 22 October, the...
Reasons to be cheerful, part 57
On Saturday, I spoke at the Climate Action Newcastle rally. My theme was 'reasons to be cheerful', and I tried to break from the doom...
Why Net Zero must be people-led, with Prof Marcelle McManus
Professor Marcelle McManus of Bath University spends most of her waking hours developing new clean technology, but with a twist – she understands that human...
No, Sustainability isn’t “a balance”
At least twice in the last couple of weeks, I have heard Sustainability described as "a balance between environment, economy and society". No it isn't....
I ain’t going to COP-a
I've never been to a COP meeting. Nobody has ever invited me (can you hear the violins?), I've never spotted a role for me to...
Truckin’ on (bio)Gas with Philip Fjeld, CEO of ReFuels
What do my morning paper, the laptop I'm typing this on and my lunch have in common? They've all been on at least one truck,...
Multiple Sustainability event brain dump
On Tuesday morning I was at the Clean Energy UK/Net Zero North East England conference and, after an interlude talking hedgehogs and local authority finance...