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Want to solve climate change? Here’s the key…

19th October 2020

Almost every low carbon forum I get involved in gets obsessed with technology. And when the Duke of Cambridge announced his Earthshot prize to fund...

Don’t lock yourself (or others) onto a unsustainable path

13th October 2020

Back in 2004 when I was first elected Councillor, I was part of the first change in political control of the Council for 31 years,...

The State of Sustainability in UK Politics

9th October 2020

Every autumn, without fail, I watch the leaders' speeches at the big three political party conferences. Until this year. I don't know if it's my...

How to make a Sustainability Leader…

5th October 2020

While writing this month's Low Carbon Agenda on What Makes a Sustainability Leader, a sudden thought dropped into my mind... how to make a Sustainability...

Stay alert: green comms lessons from the Government’s Covid slogans

28th September 2020

The Covid-19 crisis has seen more public behaviour messaging on anything I can remember since AIDS first crashed into the public consciousness in the late...

Whose fault is climate change?

25th September 2020

This week, a tweet appeared on my timeline saying "Capitalism created climate change, only socialism can fix it!" I fired back with the Guardian research...

How can your business help deliver the 15 Minute City?

21st September 2020

More than half of the world's population live in cities, predicted to grow to two thirds by 2050. Therefore much of the debate on Sustainability...

Plastics recycling isn’t a scam…

16th September 2020

Oh dear. Nothing like a journalist who doesn't understand statistics– or deliberately misunderstands them in search of a cheap headline. Arwa Mahdawi, writing in today's...

Sustainability must scale

14th September 2020

I’m writing this in a half-asleep, constantly hungry state as I completed my big personal challenge for this year yesterday: riding the C2C cycle route...

Talking Sustainability? Who are you talking to?

7th September 2020

Every time I read a Sustainability document, I ask myself "who is this for?" If I'm drafting a Sustainability Strategy, I always ask my client...

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