Eliminating barriers to Sustainability with extreme prejudice
On Sunday I took middle child for a 20 mile cycle ride - choosing a route which looped through parks, around the North of the...
Sustainability Reawakens
Jul 14, 2020
I'm very aware my blogging has reduced to a trickle in recent weeks – my excuse is that everything has ramped up again except the...
On yer bike…
Jun 2, 2020
Last week I wandered over to my local bike shop to buy a few new inner tubes. As I waited in the socially distanced queue,...
Will Sustainability be the ‘new normal’ post-pandemic?
May 5, 2020
There's an old saying 'don't let a crisis go to waste' and there are plenty of voices calling for the current disruption to be used...
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (turn and face the strange…)
Oct 7, 2019
One of the weirder aspects of climate denial/scepticism movement is the assumption that the only thing that can change is the laws of physics. Those...
Beelines: a lovely example of Green Jujitsu
Aug 12, 2019
Recently, I've been looking enviously at the Manchester Beelines project to bring together 1000 miles of cycle routes across the Greater Manchester area. While the...
Making Sustainability The New Normal
Jul 8, 2019
Yesterday afternoon I pulled on my lycra, got on my bike and headed off into Northumberland to watch the end of the Beaumont Trophy –...
Sustainability in my local election campaign
May 7, 2019
Long time readers will know that I've always shared my time time running Terra Infirma Ltd with being an elected Councillor on Newcastle City Council....
We need paths to Sustainability, not hoops to jump through
Feb 19, 2019
It's half term here, so yesterday I took the kids and our bikes up to Druridge Bay for a 9 mile ride along the coastal...
You gotta make Sustainability easy, or it won’t happen
Feb 21, 2018
I was on the wireless on Saturday, commenting on a new injection of cash for cycling infrastructure in Newcastle and other major UK cities. The...