Why you should never dilute Net Zero targets, Mr Sunak
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...
The Future of Transport?
Mar 21, 2022
Last week I finally got hold of my new mode of transport – a Tern GSD cargobike. It’s the same length as a normal bike,...
Making Sustainability Easy (pt 357)
Apr 26, 2021
I'm still up to my eyeballs in the local election campaign. One of the issues we are campaigning on is the very poor recycling system...
The Stumbling & Humbling of Elon Musk
Oct 1, 2018
The electromagnetic pioneer Nikola Tesla gave us the AC motor, radio, robots, x-ray photographs and much more. However, he was clearly bonkers with bizarre aversions to...