Anti-15 minute city protests are just the latest bump in the road to Sustainability
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...
Your position on climate change is illogical…
Feb 14, 2022
About the time the controversy over Joe Rogan's anti-vat Spotify podcast blew up, a clip of Rogan interviewing Jordan Peterson was also circulating green circles....
Sustainability: a battle between ambition and doubt
Apr 6, 2021
On Sunday, I dutifully drove down to the Riverside Stadium in Middlesbrough for my first Covid-19 vaccine. Arriving in the 'Boro half an hour early,...
Progress is always messy – climate action is no different
Feb 9, 2021
One Christmas Eve Eve, Mrs K and I buckled down to wrapping Christmas presents for the mini-Kanes. I can't stand wrapping, partly due to the...
Will Joe Biden save the planet?
Nov 9, 2020
Well, it's the week after the week before. I haven't quite recovered from US-election-fever, still waking at 3am wondering how the vote is going in...
Who remembers Local Agenda 21?
Apr 28, 2020
On Sunday morning, during my Government sanctioned outing to the shop, I found an A4 sheet of paper crudely pasted to a noticeboard in our...
Why we will never win the argument on climate change
Apr 16, 2020
Sometimes a diagram sums up a whole load of messy thoughts and when I saw the graph below on what will inevitably happen when we...
Don’t waste time on climate “sceptics”
Feb 3, 2020
Oops, I did it again. At the weekend I spent half an hour drafting an e-mail in response to some climate denial on a (non-environmental)...