Do you want Sustainability or not? Lessons from the Olympics
The story has been told many times, but it's a good one if you're a Brit. Thoroughly embarrassed by GB's pathetic single-gold-medal showing at the...
Solar subsidies must go… eventually
Aug 31, 2015
Just weeks after promising to "unleash a solar revolution", UK Energy & Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd has announced the Government is considering a massive 87%...
If this is war, we must use all the weapons at our disposal
Oct 6, 2014
Every Monday for the last couple of weeks, I've been mulling on one of my proposed Rules of the Pragmatic Environmentalist. This week, it is...
(S)Ola! from Spain (Part 1)
Apr 8, 2013
This is our first ever family holiday by 'plane. Like good greenies, we've avoided flying for ages but we're desperate to get some sun and...
Looking for the Holy Grail of Sustainability? Don’t…
Jan 16, 2013
Many of us sustainability professionals are idealists - on a mission to save the planet and all the people on it. We genuinely care about...
Legislation changes. It’s the law!
Jun 1, 2012
There's an old(ish) tech saying "Never buy version 1.0 of anything." The thinking is that the first version of anything hasn't been 'battle hardened' by use...
'Aving a FiT – Subsidies and Business Risk
Nov 2, 2011
And lo, it came to pass. On Monday the UK Government announced a consultation on cutting the solar PV Feed-in Tariff by 50% ostensibly to...
Is the renewable energy industry getting greedy?
Oct 28, 2011
Twitter and the green press is buzzing with the UK solar industry leaping up and down as they fear the Feed-in Tariff (FiT) is going...
Exclusive: Chris Huhne on the Green Energy Economy
Oct 3, 2011
Last Thursday UK Energy & Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne MP spoke at an event on the Green Energy Economy organised by Newcastle Liberal Democrats...
Does Commerce Trump Charity?
Sep 26, 2011
I spent a very pleasant evening on Friday listening to Chris Packham at a Northumberland Wildlife Trust fundraiser (he's vice-president of the Wildlife Trusts). He...
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