Lucy Siegle on Sustainability in mainstream media, sewage and fashion
Who better to talk about communicating Sustainability to the public than Lucy Siegle, a presenter of the BBC's One Show for many years, writer of...
Saving our Wild Isles Review: Perfectly Pitched
Apr 19, 2023
One of the most influential public engagement events of recent years was the TV series Blue Planet II, presented by the peerless legend David Attenborough,...
Don’t make people freeze with climate fear…
Sep 16, 2019
I sometimes come under fire for my optimistic, gung-ho approach to tackling climate change and other Sustainability issues. Part of this is my pragmatic, trained-engineer...
Why #ClimateOptimist makes me want to cry
Sep 19, 2017
Yesterday afternoon, my Twitter feed suddenly filled with garish 80's-home-computer style graphics urging me to "Opt-in to be a #ClimateOptimist!". "'Ello?" I asked myself and...
Pringles and Lucozade still don’t get it.
May 19, 2017
I love it when serious Sustainability issues hit the mainstream and yesterday's public shaming of Pringles and Lucozade Sport for difficult-to-recycle packaging across mainstream media...
Mind your Sustainability Language
Apr 28, 2017
I first wrote about Green Jujitsu in the sense of choosing your language to suit the audience (I've since expanded that from everything from images...
Why your climate message isn’t getting through
Nov 16, 2016
This morning I was running my normal route up the river valley where I live. Towards the far end of my circuit, I came up behind three...
Al Gore, the CBI & Greenpeace: which big gun will make a difference?
Sep 23, 2015
The heavy artillery of the climate movement parked its tanks on the (metaphorical) lawn of the UK Chancellor this week. Al Gore, John Cridland of...
Let’s banish the inner priesthood of sustainability
Sep 29, 2014
Like it or not, the human race has a tendency towards tribalism - we can see that in a long history of brutal ethnic wars...
What sustainability practitioners can learn from politics…
Jul 4, 2014
One of the interesting developments in the climate debate over the last month has been the publication of "Risky Business" - an assessment of the...