The future is low carbon, but the path is fraught with danger
I moved to the North East of England almost 30 tears ago. The Prof is a Geordie native and, when my Civil Service job moved...
Driving Sustainability over a few bumps in the road
Mar 31, 2025
For the last few years, I’ve been a judge for the Sustainability category for the North East Automobile Association (NEAA) Annual Awards. As a thank...
The TRUTH about electric vehicles with Prof Colin Herron
May 24, 2024
In this week's episode of the Net Zero Business Podcast, Professor Colin Herron cuts through the myths and fluff on electric vehicles and tells it...
Why you should never dilute Net Zero targets, Mr Sunak
Sep 20, 2023
In an early meeting of our Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group (CoSM), a founder member (now retired, but I'm sticking with the Chatham House rule), said:...
If we don’t learn from (Sustainability) history…
Sep 4, 2023
...we're bound to keep making the same mistakes over and over again. About 15-20 years ago, a local regeneration body tasked the team I ran...
So, I cycled to an automotive event…
Mar 28, 2023
Last Thursday night, I was invited to the North East Automobile Association (NEAA) Annual Awards at Ramside Hall outside Durham as I was one of...
So, yesterday I did something massive. I went car-free (ish)
Mar 16, 2023
Yesterday I sold my car. Conversations have gone a bit like this: "What did you trade it in for?" "Nothing, I just sold it." "So...
Britishvolt: A Green Business is NOT a Charity
Jan 23, 2023
And so the Britishvolt EV battery startup has died a big messy public death, as I predicted. Not because of any particular skill on my...
Sustainability in 2023: My ‘Predictions’
Jan 9, 2023
For a few years, every January an environmental website used to ask me for my predictions for 2023. I never liked doing it as I...
A tale of two gigafactories…
Nov 14, 2022
As the name suggests, an EV battery gigafactory is truly colossal with a price tag to match – we're talking billions rather than millions. A...