Reasons to be cheerful (pt 396)
Here's a selection of headlines from the last few days: Big Oil unexpectedly backing newest non-fossil fuels Big Oil abandons $2.5bn arctic drilling rights Saudi prince...
Imagine…
Mar 21, 2016
We are clearly living in an energy revolution – coal companies collapsing, oil prices trundling along the bottom as production outstrips demand and a surge...
Peak stuff? Peak Carbon? It’s happening, folks…
Mar 2, 2016
A headline in yesterday's Guardian stopped me in my tracks: UK consumes far less than a decade ago – 'peak stuff' or something else? From crops...
The end of the oil age?
Jan 27, 2016
The current economic hysteria sweeping the globe has been triggered by the sudden slump in oil prices in the last 18 months. But hold on a...
Reasons to be cheerful (about green issues)
Oct 12, 2015
I had an old college chum over for dinner last week and we did a lot of reminiscing about our student days and the years...
Message to George: “Green = Growth”
Dec 5, 2014
I sat through Wednesday's Autumn Statement from UK Chancellor George Osborne with increasing disappointment. Normally such a set piece speech will have at the very least...
Will we get political leadership on sustainability in 2015?
Oct 10, 2014
The UK political conference season has come to an end, the last before the General Election scheduled for May 2015. So, with manifestos starting to...
Will you be a carboniferous fossil in a low carbon economy?
Jul 21, 2014
Kodak is often held up as the archetypal extinction of the digital age. The photographic film giant invented but rejected the product - the digital...
Sustainability as Core Business Strategy
Jun 6, 2014
The whole corporate sustainability thing emerged from the idea of 'doing the right thing' or 'social responsibility' - but a recent trend is to harness...
Green: The New Normal
Oct 25, 2013
If I told you about a country where, last quarter, more than a third of all electricity was generated from low carbon sources, which one...