‘Green Deal’ damned – but what can we learn?
The UK Government's erstwhile domestic energy efficiency programme 'The Green Deal' has been damned by the Public Accounts Committee for having "abysmal" take-up. "It was...
Optimism, Pessimism and Sustainability
Jul 1, 2016
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill I was at a meeting of...
Cynics to the left of me, cynics to the right…
Mar 11, 2016
...and here I am stuck in the middle with, er, me! I have been musing this week that I often come up against two quite different,...
The silent green revolution
Feb 3, 2016
I saw the above graph on Carbon Tracker, and it tells a great story. Despite all the fossil fuel subsidies, erratic Government policies and powerful anti-renewables...
The last thing the planet needs is conspiracy theories
Nov 23, 2015
I've had it up to here (holds hand above head) with climate conspiracy theories. First it was claims that the group behind the Paris attacks...
The People’s Front of Sustainability? Splitters!
Oct 21, 2015
[Warning: this clip is much swearier than I remembered it - take care at work or in front of sensitive ears!] This week, veteran Green...
A surfeit of -isms? Eco-modernism, new environmentalism, pragmatic environmentalism
Sep 25, 2015
This week saw the launch of 'Eco-modernism' the brainchild of Mark Lynas and a host of other green thinkers. It pretty much fills the same space...
How not to communicate climate change by the Guardian
Mar 18, 2015
The Guardian is undoubtedly the UK's best newspaper for covering environmental issues, so it was no surprise when outgoing Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger made climate change...
The Comfort Zone of Doom
Mar 9, 2015
I'm reading 'Lean In' by Sheryl Sandberg - the Facebook COO's bright and breezy book on dealing with the disadvantages that women find in the...
I’ll get myself expelled from the league of pragmatic environmentalists…
Jan 28, 2015
... as I seem to be undergoing alternative medicine by mistake (kind of). I've had a problem with my back. Nothing serious, no pain as...