A couple of weeks in the Yorkshire Dales
I'm back at Terra Infirma Towers after a two week family holiday in Wensleydale, Yorkshire, staying in a stone ex-farmhouse near Hawes just 75 miles...
15 years delivering Sustainability with Terra Infirma
Aug 2, 2021
Crikey. 15 years ago today I relinquished the safety net of a salary and generous pension scheme to fulfill an ambition I’d had since undergrad...
A quick reset with nature
Jul 19, 2021
This time last week I was on a train heading north into Scotland. In my rucksack was a set of lightweight camping gear, along with...
Sustainability musings from the Costa del Solway
Jun 7, 2021
Just back from a wonderfully relaxing week in a cottage in Kippford on the Solway coast of Scotland with the family. And boy did I...
Personal resilience and Sustainability
May 10, 2021
The second week of May is usually a week of recovery for me as the local elections tend to be on the first Thursday. I'm...
Sustainability: a battle between ambition and doubt
Apr 6, 2021
On Sunday, I dutifully drove down to the Riverside Stadium in Middlesbrough for my first Covid-19 vaccine. Arriving in the 'Boro half an hour early,...
My Life in Sustainability (so far)
Mar 30, 2021
Yesterday, I turned 50. I know, I don't look a day over 49. Mrs K had planned to whisk me away to Paris by Eurostar...
Rabbie Burns, eco warrior
Jan 25, 2021
It’s the start of week 4 of home-schooling chez Kane, and given tonight’s Burns’ Night, I thought I’d introduce the kids (and, to be honest,...
Sustainability must scale
Sep 14, 2020
I’m writing this in a half-asleep, constantly hungry state as I completed my big personal challenge for this year yesterday: riding the C2C cycle route...
We should be taking it easy on ourselves…
Mar 30, 2020
It was my birthday yesterday and Mrs K's planned birthday treat of a night away from the kids at a hotel with red squirrels in...