Musings on a Green Economy pt1: After the Crash
I'm officially on holiday for the next two weeks, but due to the size of the bump on my pregnant partner, we're holidaying at home...
Sustainability Champions, Subsidy Junkies and Green Canoeing
Jun 29, 2012
I gave two keynote speeches this week: one at The Value of Sustainability organised by Newcastle University Business School and TADEA, the other at the...
Why Rio+20 and the G20 should be one meeting
Jun 20, 2012
Two big global jamborees at the same time: Rio+20 trying save the planet and the G20 in Mexico trying to save the global economy. Really...
Is our obsession with the cuts blinding us to the oil shock?
Nov 30, 2011
The BBC's Evan Davis made a very interesting point when interviewing Labour's Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls this morning on Radio 4. Trying to wrongfoot Balls,...
Richard Branson (and me): fossil fuel is fuelling the recession
Oct 10, 2011
Sir Richard Branson said something very interesting this week. Speaking at the Slowlife Symposium in the Maldives (above, and no, I wasn't there, unfortunately), he...
Exclusive: Chris Huhne on the Green Energy Economy
Oct 3, 2011
Last Thursday UK Energy & Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne MP spoke at an event on the Green Energy Economy organised by Newcastle Liberal Democrats...
The Politics of Oil
Mar 7, 2011
This weekend the global oil situation finally made its way onto the front pages of the UK press with, for example, The Guardian's report on...
Climate Change & the World of Finance
Feb 25, 2011
This video from The Telegraph gives an insight into the financial sector's views on low carbon technology. Unsurprisingly they're taking a very hard nosed approach...
Are you prepared for an oil shock?
Feb 23, 2011
Yesterday I was writing a piece on major problems in the oil industry for The Sustainability Forum (it should go up today or tomorrow it's...
Green White Elephants
Jan 28, 2011
I read in our local paper yesterday that a neighbouring council had just unveiled plans for a Green Business Incubator using £2.4million of European funding...