On yer bike…
Last week I wandered over to my local bike shop to buy a few new inner tubes. As I waited in the socially distanced queue,...
Being seen to do the right thing…
May 27, 2020
British politics has been aflame for the last few days following the revelation that the Prime Minister’s ‘Special Advisor’ (read Chief of Staff) Dominic Cummings,...
The “Try Before You Buy” Approach to Sustainability
May 19, 2020
I'm delighted that my adopted home town of Newcastle upon Tyne is going to be the latest City in the world to get 'pop-up' cycle...
Sustainability messaging lessons from the Conga of Doom
May 12, 2020
I actually feel a wee bit sorry for the poor soul who organised the now-infamous VE Day conga (above). Yes, they broke the rules and...
Will Sustainability be the ‘new normal’ post-pandemic?
May 5, 2020
There's an old saying 'don't let a crisis go to waste' and there are plenty of voices calling for the current disruption to be used...
Who remembers Local Agenda 21?
Apr 28, 2020
On Sunday morning, during my Government sanctioned outing to the shop, I found an A4 sheet of paper crudely pasted to a noticeboard in our...
Should we stop talking about a climate emergency/crisis?
Apr 21, 2020
I've been enjoying my Thursday morning Sustainability Professional Zoom chats hosted by Penny Walker and Susannah Roffe. At last week's meeting, I posited the question: given...
Why we will never win the argument on climate change
Apr 16, 2020
Sometimes a diagram sums up a whole load of messy thoughts and when I saw the graph below on what will inevitably happen when we...
Doing the right thing (and being seen to do the right thing)
Apr 6, 2020
I’m sure many of us are having our hearts warmed by the many positive actions we see in these dark days. The volunteers taking supplies...
We should be taking it easy on ourselves…
Mar 30, 2020
It was my birthday yesterday and Mrs K's planned birthday treat of a night away from the kids at a hotel with red squirrels in...