Britain Greener in Europe
About 15 years ago, I was at an international eco-design conference. As I wandered around the poster displays during a coffee break, I came across...
You must forge your own path in Sustainability
Apr 25, 2016
At the Sustainable Best Practice Exchange two weeks ago, a representative from the Tees Valley stood up and gave a presentation on a vision for...
The British Steel Industry & the Carbon Leakage Conundrum
Mar 31, 2016
One of the more notorious comments from UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne came during his speech at the 2011 Conservative Party conference: "We're...
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...
Cynics to the left of me, cynics to the right…
Mar 11, 2016
...and here I am stuck in the middle with, er, me! I have been musing this week that I often come up against two quite different,...
Look forward, not back, Mr Cameron
Jan 13, 2016
Twice in recent weeks, UK prime minister David Cameron has answered questions on green issues with a simple and superficially impressive statistic: 98% of solar panels...
So is the Paris climate deal any COP?
Dec 14, 2015
It's the Monday after the week before. They did it in Paris, signing an international treaty to tackle climate change, the world is rejoicing and...
Hopes for Paris
Nov 30, 2015
Yesterday, I threw off my cynicism about such things and went on the Climate March in Newcastle, taking the little one with me (right). All...
The last thing the planet needs is conspiracy theories
Nov 23, 2015
I've had it up to here (holds hand above head) with climate conspiracy theories. First it was claims that the group behind the Paris attacks...
When bad things happen…
Nov 16, 2015
Checking social media early on Saturday morning, I started to get that dread feeling that something terrible had happened overnight. Flicking up the news, the...