The first step to culture change for Sustainability…
Yesterday was one for my other job - City Councillor and Opposition Spokesman on Sustainability. There were two big set-piece events: the launch of the...
Sustainability Signal vs Noise
Nov 15, 2017
Fascinating piece of research by Sustrans which found that 78% of city-dwellers would like to see more segregated cycle lanes even if it meant losing...
Me & My Mobike: Adventures in the Sharing Economy
Oct 25, 2017
The Chinese Mobike scheme has just hit my city of Newcastle upon Tyne, so on Monday I grabbed my camcorder and gave it a go –...
Sustainability Bites 13/10/17
Oct 13, 2017
Here's this week's edition of Sustainability Bites where I really struggle to find anything to criticise in the UK Government's Clean Growth Strategy, so I...
Anybody can do Sustainability
Aug 29, 2017
My summer of cycle action continued yesterday with another first – I entered a race. A proper race with entry fees, commissionaires, rules, closed roads...
Some Sustainability ideas just weren’t meant to happen…
Aug 25, 2017
One of my (many) pet hates in Sustainability is people and organisations trying desperately to make a trendy concept work when all the evidence points...
A Cycle-logical Summer
Aug 9, 2017
Just back from my second camping trip of the school holidays and the third this year – we're getting close to packing everything we need...
Me, the Tour de France and Green Jujitsu
Jul 10, 2017
It's the first rest day in this year's Tour de France and I'm missing the action already. As I'm writing this, I'm listening to the analysis of...
Killer Sustainability anecdotes (and not in a good way)
Jun 28, 2017
Last week I retweeted a gif showing a well designed cycle crossing being used by a steady stream of ordinary people on bikes – the text...
My big 2017 challenge – done!
Jun 19, 2017
Last May, I went the full MAMIL. You know the cliché, I turned 45 and decided that the one thing missing in my life was...