What Shell’s advertising ban says to industry
The UK's Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) is getting increasingly feisty when it comes to greenwash. Its latest target is Shell, for releasing a series of...
Everything you need to know about Net Zero!
Jun 5, 2023
For the last few months, I've been beavering away producing a new online training course entitled "Everything you need to know about Net Zero"....
The Pros and Cons of Offsetting
May 29, 2023
I've never signed up to the George Monbiot view that offsetting carbon emissions (ie paying a third party to remove an equivalent amount of carbon...
Sometimes you’ve got to rip it up and start again…
May 22, 2023
I bought the iMac I'm typing this on a couple of years ago. As a long time Mac user who runs his IT until it...
My Car Club – a great example of a product-service system
May 15, 2023
I mentioned a few weeks ago that I’d taken the (supposedly impossible) step of going car-free. Well, not entirely car free, as I’ve joined a...
Local Elections and Sustainability
May 9, 2023
If you're wondering why I haven't been posting so frequently here recently, it's because I've been out pounding the pavements to ensure I got re-elected...
Saving our Wild Isles Review: Perfectly Pitched
Apr 19, 2023
One of the most influential public engagement events of recent years was the TV series Blue Planet II, presented by the peerless legend David Attenborough,...
Why LTNs make (some) people mad…
Apr 3, 2023
Over the last six months, I've been carefully watching the Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) end of the culture war play out as it is a...
So, I cycled to an automotive event…
Mar 28, 2023
Last Thursday night, I was invited to the North East Automobile Association (NEAA) Annual Awards at Ramside Hall outside Durham as I was one of...
So, yesterday I did something massive. I went car-free (ish)
Mar 16, 2023
Yesterday I sold my car. Conversations have gone a bit like this: "What did you trade it in for?" "Nothing, I just sold it." "So...