Should we feed the clean energy trolls?
My LinkedIn algorithm is kicking up quite a few anti-Net Zero tracts at the minute. Needless to say, the vast majority come from people with...
Does the ‘Net Zero backlash’ mean we are winning?
Jan 9, 2025
On the Net Zero Business Podcast review of 2024, I suggested that the reason why we are feeling an anti-Net Zero backlash is that climate...
Why I hate politicians debating climate change
Jun 10, 2024
This year is said to be the biggest for democracy ever with almost everyone who is allowed to vote getting a chance to mark their...
Help! My boss is a climate change denier! What should I do?
Feb 9, 2024
This week's episode of the Net Zero Business Podcast is a bit different – it's a Q&A featuring this superb question from Alice Doyle: how...
Are Climate Optimists *Really* Worse than Climate Deniers?
Jan 22, 2024
I haven't read Hannah Ritchie's new book "Not the End of the World" yet, but to be honest, I'm already jealous of it as it...
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...
Anti-15 minute city protests are just the latest bump in the road to Sustainability
Feb 27, 2023
Twenty years ago I found myself attending a community engagement event on Teesside about renewable energy. A woman told us that she had been to...
“Can we afford net zero?” is the last stand of the climate deniers
Jul 26, 2022
It has been really interesting, if somewhat depressing, watching the so-called debate over climate change evolve over the last 15-20 years. Given the basics of...
The Australian Election: A New (Climate) Hope?
May 23, 2022
I first became aware of the change in political leadership in Australia when the BBC played a clip of incoming PM Anthony Albanese (right) pledging...