If we don’t learn from (Sustainability) history…
...we're bound to keep making the same mistakes over and over again. About 15-20 years ago, a local regeneration body tasked the team I ran...
On Sustainability, there’s always a (stupid) excuse to do nothing
Aug 29, 2023
Today there are two big environmental stories in the UK news. The first is the suggestion that the Government will relax the 'nutrient neutrality' rules...
Sustainability en France
Aug 21, 2023
Just back from a wonderful fortnight in France, featuring a week in the Pyrenees, a week in Brittany, with 3 nights in Paris interlacing those...
Carbon Cakeism in the face of a Creeping Climate Catastrophe
Jul 31, 2023
This morning the UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak approved 100 new oil and gas licenses for the North Sea saying that this was part of...
Cost of Living Crisis vs Net Zero?
Jul 24, 2023
The narrow win by the Conservatives in last weeks Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election has thrown the UK political establishment into a tailspin over the...
Talking at someone about Sustainability is NOT engagement
Jul 18, 2023
This morning I had an interesting chat with an old business contact about Sustainability engagement. We got into the psychology of change and in particular...
How to overcome eco-anxiety…
Jul 11, 2023
While I haven't softened my position on Just Stop Oil's tactics, I'm starting to feel a bit sorry for them. As well as their younger...
The humble bicycle might yet save the planet
Jul 3, 2023
Last week, having reasonably successfully navigated a couple of high stress months, I took off for four days solo bikepacking in the Scottish Cairngorms. Bikepacking...
Not me guv, or why Climate Change is always someone’s fault
Jun 19, 2023
I try not to spread doom as doom is demotivating, but last night I tweeted on my political twitter feed about the heat wave currently...
The denial of climate science is, sadly, human nature
Jun 12, 2023
I'm currently reading the wonderfully quirky and free-ranging Map Addict by Mike Parker which I happened upon in a charity bookshop a couple of weeks...