If we don’t learn from (Sustainability) history…
...we're bound to keep making the same mistakes over and over again. About 15-20 years ago, a local regeneration body tasked the team I ran...
Is the world now ready for the product-as-service model?
May 13, 2016
The launch of the Riversimple's Rasa electric two seater car is remarkable for two reasons. First, it could bring hydrogen vehicles onto the market at the...
Mark Carney’s not the only one giving ‘forward guidance’…
Aug 14, 2013
Canadian financial rockstar Mark Carney has taken up his post as Saviour Governor of the Bank of England and revealed his secret weapon (drum roll...)...
Can you design a green economy?
May 3, 2013
You only have to see the repercussions of the 'Arab Spring' to see that revolutions are inherently unstable. Yet we constantly call for a 'revolution'...
Book Review: The Third Industrial Revolution by Jeremy Rifkin
Apr 18, 2012
International energy adivsor Jeremy Rifkin's newish book The Third Industrial Revolution has been getting quite a lot of attention in the press, so I thought...
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...
Has hydrogen had its day?
Sep 4, 2009
I've been doing some research into the current stage of the hydrogen economy for Innovation Scout. Back in the late 90s and early 00s, hydrogen...
“Nice idea, but it will never work”
Jun 1, 2009
There is a lovely story (probably apocryphal*) of a student taking a design proposal to the head of Cambridge University Engineering Department. The Prof looked...
Some Ideas to Chu On…
May 27, 2009
While the last year has seen Barack Obama hogging the limelight of US politics, his new Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a Nobel prize-winning physicist, has...
No Solace for the Fuel Cell Industry
Nov 2, 2008
I won't give away the plot, but a key, if clunky, exchange between two baddies towards the end of the new Bond film, Quantum of...