Sustainability Leadership = Vision x Competence
As I type, the UK is in a leadership vacuum at one of the most critical junctures in post-war British politics. Following the surprise Brexit vote...
Urban Sustainability in Walthamstow
Jun 29, 2016
I'm down in North East London for a couple of days learning about the 'mini-Holland' project in Walthamstow – a substantial investment in making suburban...
Don’t get too worried about Brexit just yet…
Jun 27, 2016
Yesterday at a kids party, a neighbour of mine asked me "You must be even more furious about the EU referendum result than I am?"...
Why you’ve got to embrace tribalism in Sustainability
Jun 23, 2016
I've just been to the polling station to vote in the EU Referendum. And I voted... drum-roll... IN! But you probably guessed that, not just because...
Britain Greener in Europe
May 23, 2016
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...