My Generation (or the next…)?
I was speaking to a senior manager from a major company last week, a gent of a certain age on the brink of retirement, and I...
Elon Musk, disruptive innovation & sustainability
Jun 13, 2014
Regular readers will need no reminder of my high regard for Tesla Motors and its maverick owner Elon Musk. And the thing I like the...
Interview with Andy Griffiths, Sustainability Manager, Nestlé UK
Mar 19, 2014
Here's the latest in a series of interviews I have carried out with key industrial sustainability practitioners. Andy Griffiths is Sustainability Manager at Nestlé UK's...
Reasons to be cheerful (parts 1-327)
Jan 27, 2014
We can be a gloomy lot, us environmentalists - always on the verge of despair. But, hold on a minute... Renewable energy produced a record...
Are we winning?
Nov 8, 2013
Regular readers may have noticed a rather upbeat tone to my posts here recently. And for good reason. Renewables starting to take big chunks out...
Tesla: The Apple of Greentech
Oct 28, 2013
Remember what smartphones were like before the iPhone? Fiddly keyboards, nests of menus and terrible web navigation. Then along came Steve Job's little shiny slab...
Sustainable Cities & Green Business
Oct 18, 2010
I'm walking on sunshine today as Newcastle upon Tyne has be rated "most sustainable city in the UK" by Forum for the Future. Not just...
It's the economy, stupid
Sep 29, 2010
Back in the early 1980s, I persuaded my parents to part with the princely sum of £399.00 for a BBC Micro Model B. My initial...
Better Place EV Battery Swap
Jan 22, 2010
While doing some background research on new low carbon business opportunities for The Green Executive, I came across a demonstration video for Better Place's automatic...
Smart Grids for Idiots
Jan 13, 2010
This morning I was reading the usual batch of letters to my local paper on how terrible renewable energy is, how global warming is a...