Carbon Cakeism in the face of a Creeping Climate Catastrophe
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...
What Shell’s advertising ban says to industry
Jun 7, 2023
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...