How to Accelerate Sustainability
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...
Don’t be depressed, invest!
Nov 14, 2016
No matter what your politics, it's hard to see a Donald Trump presidency being a boon for the fight against climate change in particular, and...
Stand up for science!
Nov 2, 2016
At the weekend the family headed down to Bedford to catch up with my brother-in-law and celebrate the middle one's seventh birthday. As is usual on...
Why I’m an Eco-optimist
Sep 2, 2016
There's an old joke: An optimist says the glass is half full, A pessimist says the glass if half empty, An engineer says the glass...
Do you want Sustainability or not? Lessons from the Olympics
Aug 22, 2016
The story has been told many times, but it's a good one if you're a Brit. Thoroughly embarrassed by GB's pathetic single-gold-medal showing at the...