Why behavioural change for Sustainability is difficult (and how to make it easier)
Last week I was locking my bike outside one of my regular refuelling points when two Mobike employees appeared and started rounding up some of...
Reasons to be Cheerful part 514
May 11, 2018
Well, the good news just keeps coming. Zero carbon aluminium smelting, coal-free-energy days, too much solar energy in the summer (so how do we store...
Inspiring yourself on Sustainability
Apr 6, 2018
The other day my eldest was watching the news with me and asked "Why isn't there a good news channel to cheer us up?" He...
Fear and Loathing in Sustainability
Apr 3, 2018
The Sustainability news falls into two polarised camps: 'climate impacts found to be worse than thought!' and 'renewable energy is booming!'. Why these might seem...
Don’t be a Sustainability Sheep
Mar 26, 2018
I took most of Friday off to go and help Mrs K move office at Durham University. So I decided to cycle down and, on...
Decoupling or ‘recoupling’ carbon to growth?
Mar 23, 2018
Had a great meeting of the Green Thinkers last night, despite the fact I had managed not to read the book I had suggested, A...
Stephen Hawking on Sustainability
Mar 16, 2018
As a member of that huge club who only got a third of the way through "A Brief History of Time", the death of Stephen...
Sustainability… as a toaster?
Mar 5, 2018
No. I haven't gone crazy with snowbound cabin fever, I just happened to (re)read something about Steve Jobs which reminded me that Jobs' original concept...
Most influential Sustainability books for me
Dec 4, 2017
I saw a post on LinkedIn yesterday asking people for their top 5 Sustainability books. I quoted the following five as the most influential in...
The need for ‘outrageous ambition’ on Sustainability
Dec 1, 2017
I spent yesterday morning at the always-excellent North East Recycling Forum annual conference. The conference chair, the ever-ebullient Mark Shayler of APE, challenged us in...