COP30: Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas, but Christmas comes anyway
So, another COP, another few steps forward but skirting carefully around the elephant in the room: the burning of fossil fuels. A huge effort by...
What I’ve Learnt in Year 2 of the Net Zero Business Podcast
Nov 21, 2025
Blimey O'Reilly! It's two years since I launched the Net Zero Business Podcast! Anniversaries are always a good time to reflect on the past. In...
Flights of Fancy: Cargo Cult Science and the Pursuit of Growth
Nov 19, 2025
A couple of things happened within days of each other last month and I've only just picked up on the coincidence. On 22 October, the...
Reasons to be cheerful, part 57
Nov 17, 2025
On Saturday, I spoke at the Climate Action Newcastle rally. My theme was 'reasons to be cheerful', and I tried to break from the doom...
Why Net Zero must be people-led, with Prof Marcelle McManus
Nov 14, 2025
Professor Marcelle McManus of Bath University spends most of her waking hours developing new clean technology, but with a twist – she understands that human...
No, Sustainability isn’t “a balance”
Nov 12, 2025
At least twice in the last couple of weeks, I have heard Sustainability described as "a balance between environment, economy and society". No it isn't....
I ain’t going to COP-a
Nov 10, 2025
I've never been to a COP meeting. Nobody has ever invited me (can you hear the violins?), I've never spotted a role for me to...
Truckin’ on (bio)Gas with Philip Fjeld, CEO of ReFuels
Nov 7, 2025
What do my morning paper, the laptop I'm typing this on and my lunch have in common? They've all been on at least one truck,...
Multiple Sustainability event brain dump
Nov 6, 2025
On Tuesday morning I was at the Clean Energy UK/Net Zero North East England conference and, after an interlude talking hedgehogs and local authority finance...
In Sustainability, if you’re cajoling people, you’re losing
Nov 3, 2025
Ronald Reagan got plenty of opprobrium during his time as president (remember Spitting Image's The President's Brain is Missing! sketches? If not, ask your parents),...