Book Review: Volt Rush by Henry Sanderson
Back in the winter of 2004, the Prof and I ticked an item off our bucket list by travelling from St Petersburg to Beijing on...
Solitaire Townsend on the March of the Sustainability Solutionists
Nov 15, 2024
This week we're joined on the pod by one of the rock stars of Sustainability, Solitaire Townsend, to talk about her fab book The Solutionists....
Thank goodness for well written Sustainability books!
Sep 9, 2024
As a big reader, I periodically post Sustainability book reviews here on the blog. Obviously I am first and foremost providing a resource for you,...
How to be a Chief Sustainability Officer with Anna Krotova
Jul 5, 2024
This week I talk to Anna Krotova about her fantastic new book, How to be a Chief Sustainability Officer (co-authored with Jennifer Geary), digging into...
Book Review: Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard
Mar 25, 2024
A few months ago, I realised there was a Patagonia-shaped hole in my Sustainability knowledge. Not the southern region of South America, of course, but...
Book Review: Net Zero: How we stop causing climate change by Dieter Helm
Jun 20, 2022
I haven't read a Sustainability book for some time, so when my partner handed me a copy of Dieter Helm's Net Zero at an Alpkit...
Book Review: Value(s) by Mark Carney
Aug 4, 2021
When appointed Governor of the Bank of England in 2013, Mark Carney was described as the Rock Star of Bankers. Well, in Value(s), Carney has...
Book Review: Rummage by Emily Cockayne
Aug 24, 2020
I'm writing this blog in what appears to be the only house in our Victorian neighbourhood which managed to hold on to its wrought iron...
Book Review: Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro
Oct 14, 2019
In 1996, I visited the Auschwitz/Birkenau death camps in Poland. I was in two minds about going, with a nagging feeling that I was indulging...
No, Sustainability is not ‘a balance’
Aug 9, 2019
On Monday I griped about a Sustainability book I was sent for review. The sentence which made my heart drop was 'basically speaking, Sustainability is...