Greenest Government Ever and The Vision Thing
In my post last Friday on David Cameron's little green speech, I mentioned in passing that I thought his vision to lead "the greenest Government ever"...
It’s about Leadership, Mr Cameron
Apr 27, 2012
All green eyes were on UK Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday as he made the first environmental speech of his tenure at the Clean Energy...
Book Review: The Third Industrial Revolution by Jeremy Rifkin
Apr 18, 2012
International energy adivsor Jeremy Rifkin's newish book The Third Industrial Revolution has been getting quite a lot of attention in the press, so I thought...
Book Reviews: Hot, Flat & Crowded and The God Species
Feb 6, 2012
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...