Book Reviews: Hot, Flat & Crowded and The God Species
I don't tend to read many "green" books these days - not because I think I know it all, but because I'm topping up my...
Adam Smith’s Invisible Brain
Feb 1, 2012
I was watching BBC's Daily Politics on Monday to catch the latest on the RBS bonus affair that I had just blogged on, and, lo,...
Stephen Hester, The Bonus and CSR
Jan 30, 2012
The Stephen Hester Bonus saga reads like a really good episode of The West Wing - or indeed my current favourite political drama, Borgen. The...
CSR becomes the political zeitgeist
Jan 25, 2012
All of a sudden corporate social responsibility has been thrust into the UK political spotlight. The three major party leaders have spent the last few...
Is our obsession with the cuts blinding us to the oil shock?
Nov 30, 2011
The BBC's Evan Davis made a very interesting point when interviewing Labour's Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls this morning on Radio 4. Trying to wrongfoot Balls,...
Cutting carbon in a globalised world
May 18, 2011
Two pieces of news caught my eye yesterday: the big news that UK Energy & Climate Change Minister Chris Huhne announced that the UK Government was...
Both Sides of the Treasury's Coin
Mar 23, 2011
I've been at Leeds Royal Armouries today at an event run by the Major Energy Users Council. I hate being at a venue like this...
Musings on the Carbon Plan
Mar 11, 2011
I leafed through the UK Government's new Carbon Plan on the train to Birmingham on Wednesday. The plan brings together a whole raft of initiatives...
The Politics of Oil
Mar 7, 2011
This weekend the global oil situation finally made its way onto the front pages of the UK press with, for example, The Guardian's report on...
Ignore the Cancun Cacophony of Doom
Dec 13, 2010
So, Cancun produced something after all. Not an awful lot, it has to be said, but there is a definite narrowing of the agenda to...