Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

You can’t kill a zombie

14th December 2009

Ben Goldacre writes the regular Bad Science column in the Guardian. Normally he sticks to medical issues, particularly the MMR scare, but he turned his...

The benefits snowball

11th December 2009

When I do workshops with either professional or student engineers, I always emphasise the need to take a systems approach to design. If you optimise...

Throw out the doom, gloom and conspiracy theories!

9th December 2009

So the Copenhagen juggernaut judders on, with daily starts and stops, waves of optimism and pessimism, and the CRU e-mail leak providing a nice counterpoint...

Feedback from the LCBPE, 3rd Dec

7th December 2009

I had a brilliant but exhausting day at the Low Carbon Best Practice Exchange last Thursday. A late train led to a missed connection wiping...

How to settle the climate debate…

4th December 2009

A bit of fun for a Friday to get us ready for Copenhagen next week* - "Al Gore" and "Christopher Monckton" have a rap battle...

No place for tree-huggers

2nd December 2009

Running a green business is tough. I have seen many people get bitten by the green bug and then just get bitten. I have seen...

Low Carbon Agenda: Jeers and Cheers

30th November 2009

Thanks to everyone who has given feedback on last week's Low Carbon Agenda. Some found that the text wrapped strangely around the central diagram in...

Geek Central: Virtualisation

27th November 2009

The economy is fast becoming digitised - photos, music, newspapers, movies, books, shopping, networking. This is a good thing from a dematerialisation point of view,...

M King Hubbert & Peak Oil Theory

26th November 2009

If anyone is interested in the background to the concept of peak oil, I've just posted a profile of the godfather of peak oil, M...

Copenhagen’s hotting up…

25th November 2009

You can always tell when things are coming to a crunch when the game gets dirty. If you are reading this blog, then you are...

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