Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

The humble bicycle might yet save the planet

3rd July 2023

Last week, having reasonably successfully navigated a couple of high stress months, I took off for four days solo bikepacking in the Scottish Cairngorms. Bikepacking...

Not me guv, or why Climate Change is always someone’s fault

19th June 2023

I try not to spread doom as doom is demotivating, but last night I tweeted on my political twitter feed about the heat wave currently...

The denial of climate science is, sadly, human nature

12th June 2023

I'm currently reading the wonderfully quirky and free-ranging Map Addict by Mike Parker which I happened upon in a charity bookshop a couple of weeks...

What Shell’s advertising ban says to industry

7th June 2023

The UK's Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) is getting increasingly feisty when it comes to greenwash. Its latest target is Shell, for releasing a series of...

Everything you need to know about Net Zero!

5th June 2023

For the last few months, I've been beavering away producing a new online training course entitled "Everything you need to know about Net Zero"....

The Pros and Cons of Offsetting

29th May 2023

I've never signed up to the George Monbiot view that offsetting carbon emissions (ie paying a third party to remove an equivalent amount of carbon...

Sometimes you’ve got to rip it up and start again…

22nd May 2023

I bought the iMac I'm typing this on a couple of years ago. As a long time Mac user who runs his IT until it...

My Car Club – a great example of a product-service system

15th May 2023

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I’d taken the (supposedly impossible) step of going car-free. Well, not entirely car free, as I’ve joined a...

Local Elections and Sustainability

9th May 2023

If you're wondering why I haven't been posting so frequently here recently, it's because I've been out pounding the pavements to ensure I got re-elected...

Saving our Wild Isles Review: Perfectly Pitched

19th April 2023

One of the most influential public engagement events of recent years was the TV series Blue Planet II, presented by the peerless legend David Attenborough,...

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