“OK, kids, so you want to do something about climate change…”
"... how about starting with switching off the lights when you leave a room?" Silence. "You mean..." ventured the middle one. "Yes, if you're serious...
Awareness of climate change doesn’t change anything
Mar 18, 2019
We asked our kids whether they were interested in last week's children's climate strike and got a series of noncommittal grunts in reply. While we...
Sustainability: If we act decisively, good things happen
Mar 6, 2019
This is one of those stats that green activists tend to ignore, but last year the UK's carbon emissions fell to levels last seen when...
How business should respond to the COP24 outcome
Dec 17, 2018
It's very easy to watch the UNFCC's annual COP get together with a sense of dread. The wheels of international negotiation turn excruciatingly slowly and...
If people aren’t listening about Climate Change, it’s our fault, not theirs
Nov 16, 2018
A number of right-leaning commentators have poked fun at the IPCC's recent assessment that we have 12 years "to save the planet" (as it has...
There’s only one reasonable response to the IPCC report
Oct 12, 2018
One of the unwelcome upshots of this week's IPCC report summarising the state of the art in climate science is the voices of doom telling...
Book Review: Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth
May 24, 2018
I haven't reviewed many Sustainability books on here of late, mainly because the few I have read recently have been terrible, some to the point...
Stop frightening people about climate change
May 14, 2018
One of the basic principles of psychology is that, despite millions of years of evolution, we are still instinctive animals at heart. We fear fire,...
Stephen Hawking on Sustainability
Mar 16, 2018
As a member of that huge club who only got a third of the way through "A Brief History of Time", the death of Stephen...
Hot takes on The Beast from the East
Mar 2, 2018
So, much of the UK is gripped by a long cold snap with blasts of some pretty horrendous weather. While the Press whips itself into...