The Answer My Friend, Is Blowing In the Wind…
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...
Reshuffling the green pack isn’t enough, Mr Cameron
Jul 16, 2014
Yesterday's reshuffle lead to big changes in the ranks of Conservative faces in the UK Government with the commentariat pouring over the nuances of every...
What sustainability practitioners can learn from politics…
Jul 4, 2014
One of the interesting developments in the climate debate over the last month has been the publication of "Risky Business" - an assessment of the...
My Generation (or the next…)?
Jun 20, 2014
I was speaking to a senior manager from a major company last week, a gent of a certain age on the brink of retirement, and I...