Blinkered views block the road to Sustainability
George Osborne may have been unceremoniously booted out of the UK Treasury by incoming PM Theresa May, but one of his legacies will live with...
Greetings from Sunny Scotland
Aug 4, 2016
We're holidaying just north of the border from where I live in North East England – in a very secluded location. To get here from the...
The People’s Front of Sustainability? Splitters!
Oct 21, 2015
[Warning: this clip is much swearier than I remembered it - take care at work or in front of sensitive ears!] This week, veteran Green...
A surfeit of -isms? Eco-modernism, new environmentalism, pragmatic environmentalism
Sep 25, 2015
This week saw the launch of 'Eco-modernism' the brainchild of Mark Lynas and a host of other green thinkers. It pretty much fills the same space...
If this is war, we must use all the weapons at our disposal
Oct 6, 2014
Every Monday for the last couple of weeks, I've been mulling on one of my proposed Rules of the Pragmatic Environmentalist. This week, it is...
Just Do It!
Mar 16, 2012
If you follow the green press, you may have noticed another spat between pro-nuclear (Monbiot, Lynas) and anti-nuclear (Friends of the Earth) greens. At the...
Book Reviews: Hot, Flat & Crowded and The God Species
Feb 6, 2012
I don't tend to read many "green" books these days - not because I think I know it all, but because I'm topping up my...
Japan's Double Jeopardy
Mar 14, 2011
I can't think of a worse situation than the one Japan finds itself in. They have suffered a terrible natural catastrophe, killing thousands and wiping...
As seen on TV…
Nov 19, 2008
I spent yesterday lunchtime shivering my extremities off and squinting into the sun on Blyth Quayside while being interviewed for BBC TV's Countryfile programme. The...