What do (some) Greens and Climate Change Deniers have in common?
Oh, the UK's new energy bill. Otherwise much lauded by green industry commentators, the bill put off setting a 2030 decarbonisation target until 2016 -...
Book Review – The Green Book: New Directions For Liberals in Government
May 20, 2013
I've been a member of the UK's third political party, the Liberal Democrats, for the best part of a decade - and an elected Councillor...
How to Unblock Global Progress on Climate Change
May 13, 2013
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was set up at the Earth Summit in 1992. That's 21 years ago and where are...
Triple Dips, GDP and Sustainability
Apr 26, 2013
All eyes were on UK Chancellor George Osborne yesterday as the first quarter's GDP growth results were released. If they were negative, then we would...
Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s only Green Prime Minister
Apr 8, 2013
Margaret Thatcher, who died today, was one of the most divisive political leaders of our time with people either loving or hating her with equal...
Heat, risk, business, politics and sustainability
Mar 27, 2013
I spent a remarkable amount of time yesterday talking about district heating and combined heat and power (CHP) - with students in the morning and...
Looking for the Holy Grail of Sustainability? Don’t…
Jan 16, 2013
Many of us sustainability professionals are idealists - on a mission to save the planet and all the people on it. We genuinely care about...
David Cameron, Cognitive Dissonance and Clarity
Dec 12, 2012
F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said: The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the...
Sustainability in a globalised world
Nov 19, 2012
I got home from a business trip last week to find a mystery parcel waiting for it. I ripped it open and six copies of...
C.S.R? How about T.A.X?
Nov 12, 2012
Today some top honchos from Starbucks are up in front of MPs to explain how they organise their tax affairs. The papers have been full...