“OK, kids, so you want to do something about climate change…”
"... how about starting with switching off the lights when you leave a room?" Silence. "You mean..." ventured the middle one. "Yes, if you're serious...
Save Sustainability from the conspiracy theorists!
Apr 8, 2019
I'm sure every Sustainability professional gets their fair share of interesting communications from the whole spectrum of eco-eccentrics ranging from mad inventors – "I've solved...
Keeping Sustainability Simple, Stupid
Mar 25, 2019
Yesterday I was talking to somebody who was lauding the kerbside recycling system in the London borough where they used to live compared to what...
Awareness of climate change doesn’t change anything
Mar 18, 2019
We asked our kids whether they were interested in last week's children's climate strike and got a series of noncommittal grunts in reply. While we...
How to Accelerate Sustainability
Nov 26, 2018
I got into a Twitter conversation last week about how to change towards Sustainability rapidly. That exchange was mainly about national issues, but my examples...
There’s only one reasonable response to the IPCC report
Oct 12, 2018
One of the unwelcome upshots of this week's IPCC report summarising the state of the art in climate science is the voices of doom telling...
Football, Tribes & Sustainability
Jun 18, 2018
So In-ger-land kick off their World Cup campaign tonight. As a Northern Irishman who has lived in England for almost 30 years, I'm not terribly...
Why #ClimateOptimist makes me want to cry
Sep 19, 2017
Yesterday afternoon, my Twitter feed suddenly filled with garish 80's-home-computer style graphics urging me to "Opt-in to be a #ClimateOptimist!". "'Ello?" I asked myself and...
Are you curious?
May 17, 2017
Yesterday I was interviewed by a geography student for his dissertation. He was asking about the reasons for my participation in a climate march in...
Digitisation, smart grids and cyberwarfare
May 15, 2017
One of the basic principles of pragmatic environmentalism is to embrace digitisation as a way of managing resources much more efficiently and dealing with the...