Thoughts on the Green Party leadership contest
There was a very interesting segment on this week's Guardian Politics podcast where the two challengers for the leadership of the Green Party went head...
Eliminating barriers to Sustainability with extreme prejudice
Jul 21, 2020
On Sunday I took middle child for a 20 mile cycle ride - choosing a route which looped through parks, around the North of the...
Sustainability Reawakens
Jul 14, 2020
I'm very aware my blogging has reduced to a trickle in recent weeks – my excuse is that everything has ramped up again except the...
Aaaaaagh! The Zombie Energy Myths Rise Again
Jul 7, 2020
Like a big chunk of the population, my time, energy and sanity are currently being stretched to breaking point by the increasing expectations of clients...
Built it, and the carbon will come
Jun 30, 2020
I’m writing this in the modern extension of a house which is 125 years old today, more or less (the pic shows the extension going...
On tribalism, culture wars and Sustainability
Jun 16, 2020
Following the defenestration of the statue of slave trader Edward Coulson in Bristol last week, a ‘topple the racists’ website appeared listing other statues around...
Winners and losers in Sustainability
Jun 9, 2020
Last week, I got a complaint from someone on the West Coast of the USA that our Green Academy Supply Chain edition was at 6am...
On yer bike…
Jun 2, 2020
Last week I wandered over to my local bike shop to buy a few new inner tubes. As I waited in the socially distanced queue,...
Being seen to do the right thing…
May 27, 2020
British politics has been aflame for the last few days following the revelation that the Prime Minister’s ‘Special Advisor’ (read Chief of Staff) Dominic Cummings,...
The “Try Before You Buy” Approach to Sustainability
May 19, 2020
I'm delighted that my adopted home town of Newcastle upon Tyne is going to be the latest City in the world to get 'pop-up' cycle...