My cargobike is changing my life… despite much of the infrastructure
I've banged on about my cargo-bike on here before, but I recently made this video about the bike, why it solves my big green transport...
A wee case study in change management for Sustainability
Nov 28, 2022
Regular readers will know I'm a City Councillor here in Newcastle. A month ago I girded my loins and kept my tin hat to hand...
Whatever happened to Citizens Assemblies?
Nov 21, 2022
About 4-5 years ago, the solution to climate change was apparently the Citizens Assembly (CA), a small but representative sample of the general public to...
A tale of two gigafactories…
Nov 14, 2022
As the name suggests, an EV battery gigafactory is truly colossal with a price tag to match – we're talking billions rather than millions. A...
Climate change: we have the technology
Nov 7, 2022
Listening to the radio this morning, during an item about the COP27 climate change conference, I heard a UK politician refer to the scope for...
So, just how Green is Rishi Sunak?
Nov 1, 2022
I've never seen political turbulence like it – three UK Prime Ministers in a couple of months. But now Rishi Sunak has taken the helm...
We need Sustainability at Scale (but watch out for the little stuff)
Oct 24, 2022
Given the average rating of my online Green Jujitsu Employee Engagement course is roughly 4.4 out of 5 after more than 7000 students, I don't...
What is Just Stop Oil trying to achieve?
Oct 17, 2022
On the face of it, the Extinction Rebellion (XR) spin-off Just Stop Oil and I agree on our goal: a rapid end to the fossil...
Sustainability at the Party Conferences
Oct 10, 2022
As a political geek, every year I watch the leaders' speeches from all the major UK political party conferences. And every year I post a...
Some Thoughts on Business & Biodiversity
Oct 4, 2022
Last week, the Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group (CoSM) considered the topic of business and biodiversity. Here are my main takeaways: Biodiversity is as big an...