Football, Tribes & Sustainability
So In-ger-land kick off their World Cup campaign tonight. As a Northern Irishman who has lived in England for almost 30 years, I'm not terribly...
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...
Sustainability Lessons from 14 years in Local Government
May 7, 2018
Regular readers may have noticed that my output here and on social media has been somewhat patchy over the last few weeks, That's because I...
Eyes on the (Sustainability) Prize
Apr 26, 2018
There's a new, if rather clunky, phrase going around the political commentariat at the minute - 'tribal epistemology'. Coined by US journalist David Roberts, the...
Sustainability in an age of unreason
Mar 19, 2018
I was very taken with Nick Cohen's column in yesterday's Observer bemoaning the rise of conspiracy-theory-driven, narrowly nationalist, identity politics around the globe. Cohen rightly...
Sustainability Leadership on the Rise, despite Trump
Dec 13, 2017
There hasn't been much coverage of President Macron's One Planet Summit on Tuesday, probably because nothing went wrong. The event was to mark the second...
A Green Budget, Phil?
Nov 22, 2017
It's Budget day here in the UK and everybody, well a few of us, are waiting to see what Chancellor Philip Hammond will pull out of...
Michael Gove, Eco-warrior
Nov 20, 2017
The environmental movement let out a groan of exasperation when Michael Gove took over the reins as UK Environment Minister earlier this year. A long...
Sustainability Signal vs Noise
Nov 15, 2017
Fascinating piece of research by Sustrans which found that 78% of city-dwellers would like to see more segregated cycle lanes even if it meant losing...
Prince Charles and the green investment conundrum
Nov 8, 2017
One of the more intriguing revelations from the 'Paradise Papers' – a leak of documents relating to offshore tax schemes – is that the Duchy...