Should we be exploring space when life on earth is unsustainable?
Like much of the population on Wednesday, I was gripped by the Rosetta mission to the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Never mind that it's parked worse than my...
The military has climate change in its sights
Nov 12, 2014
Despite all the jibes about 'military intelligence being an oxymoron', armed forces around the world spend an awful lot of time and effort analysing geopolitical trends,...
Science Has Spoken (Again) – Now What?
Nov 3, 2014
So the cycle goes around again. The International Panel on Climate Change produces its five yearly synthesis report on the state of climate change science...
The Answer My Friend, Is Blowing In the Wind…
Oct 17, 2014
Interesting news recently: Glasgow University ad committed “to fully disinvesting from fossil fuel industry companies”, subject to reassurance that the financial impact for the university would be...
Will we get political leadership on sustainability in 2015?
Oct 10, 2014
The UK political conference season has come to an end, the last before the General Election scheduled for May 2015. So, with manifestos starting to...
Sustainability: It’s not us against them
Sep 26, 2014
I've been blogging a lot about the politics of sustainability recently. As a part-time politician myself, I know that politics should be a battle of...
Can you generate Scottish Referendum levels of enthusiasm for sustainability?
Sep 19, 2014
So it's the morning after the night before and, as broadly expected, Scotland voted to stay in the UK with the rest of us. But...
The old sustainability vs growth chestnut gets another roasting
Sep 17, 2014
Two interesting interventions caught my eye this week: First of all we had Naomi Klein, of No Logo fame, wading into the climate change debate...
Everybody is an Environmentalist
Sep 15, 2014
Last week, I posited five rules for Pragmatic Environmentalism. Over the next couple of weeks I'm going to expand on/refine this a little to explain...
The (Draft) Rules of Pragmatic Environmentalism
Sep 12, 2014
I was called a hypocrite last week. Not to my face, the individual is too cowardly to look me in the eye. No, he took...