My big 2017 challenge – done!
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...
A Cycle-logical Sustainability Opportunity
Apr 21, 2017
While most sensible people were tucking into their Easter Eggs last Sunday, I was braving (very) cold, wet and windy conditions up on the MoD's...
Cycle helmets and Sustainability
Mar 27, 2017
Another thought from last weekend's trip to Amsterdam with eldest child. I never used to wear a cycle helmet, but I got one when I...
An Important Sustainability Lesson from the Netherlands
Mar 20, 2017
On Thursday, the eldest child and I set off on our bikes to Amsterdam – Harry had won the ferry tickets in a prize draw...
Blinkered views block the road to Sustainability
Sep 19, 2016
George Osborne may have been unceremoniously booted out of the UK Treasury by incoming PM Theresa May, but one of his legacies will live with...
Ready to take your Sustainability up a league?
Jul 25, 2016
I'm shaking the lactic acid out of my legs the day after the toughest cycle I've done in a long, long time (possibly ever), a...
Changing Hearts and Minds for Sustainability
Jul 18, 2016
Before the horrors of the last few days, it must have been a slow news period as the Telegraph rolled out another of their 'lycra lout'...
Urban Sustainability in Walthamstow
Jun 29, 2016
I'm down in North East London for a couple of days learning about the 'mini-Holland' project in Walthamstow – a substantial investment in making suburban...
I like to ride my bicycle…
Jun 20, 2016
On Saturday, I finally tested my cycling ability (and new midlife-crisis carbon-fibre bike) at the Virgin Cyclone Sportive – 64 miles around Northumberland and including...
Wild(ish) in Wooler
Jun 1, 2016
I wasn't planning on blogging today – in fact I had intended to be waking up for my fourth morning under canvas (well, nylon) at...