Book Review: Frugal Innovation – Doing More With Less
Mrs K picked up this 2015 book by Cambridge Judge Business School academics Navi Radjou and Jaideep Prabhu for me on the way home from a...
Most influential Sustainability books for me
Dec 4, 2017
I saw a post on LinkedIn yesterday asking people for their top 5 Sustainability books. I quoted the following five as the most influential in...
Book Review: Global Sustainability by Mark Lefko
Feb 20, 2017
When I first read the bumf around Mark Lefko's new book Global Sustainability, I was a bit worried that it clashed with my own tome,...
Optimism, Pessimism and Sustainability
Jul 1, 2016
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill I was at a meeting of...
Book Review: Doing Good Better
Feb 19, 2016
When I was an undergraduate, I unexpectedly came into a small amount of cash as I'd been underpaid for a summer job. Rather than fritter (all) the...
Thinking Fast and Slow about Sustainability
Sep 11, 2015
Years ago, I got into a lengthy, but pretty pointless e-mail argument about climate science. On paper, I had no chance. My opponent was a...
Book Review: Happy City by Charles Montgomery
Aug 3, 2015
One of my closest school friends, Conor, now lives with his wife and two kids in a dormitory commuter town in Maryland, USA. My partner...
Book Review: The Burning Question, Mike Berners-Lee & Duncan Clark
Jun 21, 2013
The central thesis of The Burning Question is that all our wonderful solutions to the climate crisis - renewables, nuclear, population control, energy efficiency -...
Book Review – The Green Book: New Directions For Liberals in Government
May 20, 2013
I've been a member of the UK's third political party, the Liberal Democrats, for the best part of a decade - and an elected Councillor...
Book Review: The New Capitalist Manifesto by Umair Haque
Mar 22, 2013
The New Capitalist Manifesto by HBR blogger Umair Haque is the third tract I've read recently on how to make capitalism work for everyone, the...