Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

Pick your climate gurus with care

12th September 2016

My regular paper is The Guardian, somewhat under sufferance ever since my previous favourite The Independent started to shrink in size and quality about a decade...

Greenwash of the Week

9th September 2016

You would have to have a very strange existence if your whole footprint was "greatly reduced" and all your waste was eradicated simply by changing from...

Can Big Data & AI deliver Sustainability?

7th September 2016

The latest edition of Ask Gareth considers how the hot topics of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence can interact with the Sustainability Agenda. Is the hype...

Interaction – the spice of Sustainability

5th September 2016

Yesterday the family headed up to the National Trust property of Wallington Hall in Northumberland – me on my bike, the rest by car. We've been...

Why I’m an Eco-optimist

2nd September 2016

There's an old joke: An optimist says the glass is half full, A pessimist says the glass if half empty, An engineer says the glass...

Clean power: past and future

30th August 2016

We've just had a wonderful Bank Holiday weekend chez Kane - taking in art, cyclocross, but most impressively, the Tall Ships Regatta at Blyth Northumberland. The...

Virtue Signalling: an insidious form of greenwash

25th August 2016

I've always hated those pious "Save the planet: don't print this e-mail" statements in people's e-mail signature blocks. Why? Because it is blatant 'virtue signalling'...

Do you want Sustainability or not? Lessons from the Olympics

22nd August 2016

The story has been told many times, but it's a good one if you're a Brit. Thoroughly embarrassed by GB's pathetic single-gold-medal showing at the...

There’s no talking to some people (about the environment)

18th August 2016

Two things made me smile this week. First, Prof Brian Cox's face as he realised what level of idiocy he was up against when debating...

Stealth Sustainability?

15th August 2016

As a British cycling fan, I've been throughly enjoying the team's continuing success in the Olympic velodrome. One of the remarkable characters is sprinter Jason...

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