Looks like carbon offshoring is starting to be taken seriously…
For decades I've been banging away that the whole "the UK only emits 2% of global emissions" is nonsense. Yes, 2% may actually be released...
There’s always one… (being negative about Sustainability)
Jul 12, 2019
Mrs K, aka Professor Karen Johnson, has appeared as a talking head in a Guardian video about soil health (see above). She's super excited getting...
Making Sustainability The New Normal
Jul 8, 2019
Yesterday afternoon I pulled on my lycra, got on my bike and headed off into Northumberland to watch the end of the Beaumont Trophy –...
Trees, please!
Jul 5, 2019
About 22 years ago I sat in a church and listened to local activists from a national pressure group plan a campaign where they would...
My simple green ‘life hack’ which can be used in the corporate world
Jul 1, 2019
At the weekend the Guardian was running a climate special. In one article, they asked climate experts what they were doing personally to cut their...
Why Theresa May made that net zero carbon commitment
Jun 28, 2019
Many of us were very pleasantly surprised when the supposedly lame duck Prime Minister Theresa May used her last weeks in office to push through...
When push comes to shove on climate…
Jun 27, 2019
The planned third runway at Heathrow is fast becoming the litmus test for climate policy in UK politics. PM David Cameron (2010-2016) opposed it, before...
What Boardman’s Belisha Battle tells us about Sustainability
Jun 24, 2019
Olympic gold medallist and yellow-jersey wearer Chris Boardman has been butting up against a brick wall of bureaucracy in his role as walking and cycling commissioner...
Can your employees talk Sustainability?
Jun 19, 2019
Last week I had surgery at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary to fix a hernia (I may have mentioned it once or twice...). As I was...
Is there now a British political consensus on climate change?
Jun 17, 2019
There was a very telling moment in last night's Channel 4 TV hustings for the Conservative Party leadership, and thus Prime Minister at least for...