Being right isn’t enough
You'd have to have the heart of Katie Hopkins not to be moved by the refugee crisis – a humanitarian disaster unfolding in front of...
We can’t bore our way to sustainability
May 15, 2015
A couple of weeks ago, I was at one of those parties where you kind of know a lot of people, but don't know anybody...
Is climate change like the Titanic?
May 1, 2015
I was interviewed about attitudes to climate change by my friend, colleague and fellow Belfast-born Anna-Lisa Mills yesterday. We got into a lengthy debate about...
How not to communicate climate change by the Guardian
Mar 18, 2015
The Guardian is undoubtedly the UK's best newspaper for covering environmental issues, so it was no surprise when outgoing Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger made climate change...
Cut the Green Crap!
Jan 7, 2015
There's far too much green crap around. I'm not talking about the clean energy subsidies that PM David Cameron was (allegedly) referring to using these words....
Green Communications – Secrets of the Sustainability Masterminds
Dec 12, 2014
Last Friday saw the final Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group of 2014. We met in the fantastic Biscuit Factory art gallery in Newcastle, surrounded by some wonderful...
Green Communications: Are you speaking to the right audience?
Dec 8, 2014
Last Friday saw the last Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group meeting of 2015 - we were discussing green communications. I'll be posting some of the multitude...
What do we need to solve climate change? A hashtag!
Nov 26, 2014
Yesterday the UK's Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) launched a tweetathon around the hashtag #BackClimateAction. The idea was that each hour between 9am...
Winter is coming*… or is it?
Nov 24, 2014
My eldest son, Harry, is doing a project at school entitled 'The Angry Earth.' Last night over dinner he suddenly shouted "I hate global...
The (Draft) Rules of Pragmatic Environmentalism
Sep 12, 2014
I was called a hypocrite last week. Not to my face, the individual is too cowardly to look me in the eye. No, he took...