Have you got a Plan B?
Phew! I'm back on line. Last Wednesday morning Sod's Law kicked in big time - the one day of the month I need uninterrupted internet...
Book Reviews: Hot, Flat & Crowded and The God Species
Feb 6, 2012
I don't tend to read many "green" books these days - not because I think I know it all, but because I'm topping up my...
Resilience
Jan 9, 2012
Just this weekend, my partner and I were chatting about the UK petrol protests of 2000 (it's laugh a minute in our house sometimes...). At...
Musings on Durban
Dec 12, 2011
So something has finally been agreed. Governments have agreed to make an agreement by 2015 which will come into force by 2020. Ministers are jubilant....
Great TED talk on sustainability
Jun 3, 2011
Regular readers will know I'm a big, big fan of TED talks - I thrive on the optimism, insight and eloquence of the speakers. This...
Time to up our game!
May 31, 2011
The International Energy Agency (IEA) is fast becoming the scariest organisation in the world - almost every press release contains extraordinarily bad news - that peak...
Armstrong & Miller on Climate Change
Jan 21, 2011
Ignore the Cancun Cacophony of Doom
Dec 13, 2010
So, Cancun produced something after all. Not an awful lot, it has to be said, but there is a definite narrowing of the agenda to...
Softly, softly at Cancun…
Dec 10, 2010
It's been quite hard to get a real feel for progress at the COP16 climate change negotiations in Cancun this week, but the overall impression...
Baby, It's Warm Outside
Nov 29, 2010
It feels a bit weird to be reading about the climate change talks in balmy Cancun when looking out the window at a foot of...