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Britishvolt: A Green Business is NOT a Charity

23rd January 2023

And so the Britishvolt EV battery startup has died a big messy public death, as I predicted. Not because of any particular skill on my...

Net Zero Review Reaction: Excuses, Excuses

16th January 2023

The Government has published its 'Net Zero Review'. This had its genesis in the short, turbulent reign of Liz Truss as a way of kicking...

Sustainability in 2023: My ‘Predictions’

9th January 2023

For a few years, every January an environmental website used to ask me for my predictions for 2023. I never liked doing it as I...

My cargobike is changing my life… despite much of the infrastructure

5th December 2022

I've banged on about my cargo-bike on here before, but I recently made this video about the bike, why it solves my big green transport...

A wee case study in change management for Sustainability

28th November 2022

Regular readers will know I'm a City Councillor here in Newcastle. A month ago I girded my loins and kept my tin hat to hand...

Whatever happened to Citizens Assemblies?

21st November 2022

About 4-5 years ago, the solution to climate change was apparently the Citizens Assembly (CA), a small but representative sample of the general public to...

A tale of two gigafactories…

14th November 2022

As the name suggests, an EV battery gigafactory is truly colossal with a price tag to match – we're talking billions rather than millions. A...

Climate change: we have the technology

7th November 2022

Listening to the radio this morning, during an item about the COP27 climate change conference, I heard a UK politician refer to the scope for...

So, just how Green is Rishi Sunak?

1st November 2022

I've never seen political turbulence like it – three UK Prime Ministers in a couple of months. But now Rishi Sunak has taken the helm...

We need Sustainability at Scale (but watch out for the little stuff)

24th October 2022

Given the average rating of my online Green Jujitsu Employee Engagement course is roughly 4.4 out of 5 after more than 7000 students, I don't...

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