Science Has Spoken (Again) – Now What?
So the cycle goes around again. The International Panel on Climate Change produces its five yearly synthesis report on the state of climate change science...
On Sustainability: Go Big or Go Home
Oct 13, 2014
The first four of my rules of pragmatic environmentalism were mainly aimed at the old-school green activism mindset which in my opinion holds us back...
If this is war, we must use all the weapons at our disposal
Oct 6, 2014
Every Monday for the last couple of weeks, I've been mulling on one of my proposed Rules of the Pragmatic Environmentalist. This week, it is...
Let’s banish the inner priesthood of sustainability
Sep 29, 2014
Like it or not, the human race has a tendency towards tribalism - we can see that in a long history of brutal ethnic wars...
The old sustainability vs growth chestnut gets another roasting
Sep 17, 2014
Two interesting interventions caught my eye this week: First of all we had Naomi Klein, of No Logo fame, wading into the climate change debate...
Everybody is an Environmentalist
Sep 15, 2014
Last week, I posited five rules for Pragmatic Environmentalism. Over the next couple of weeks I'm going to expand on/refine this a little to explain...
The (Draft) Rules of Pragmatic Environmentalism
Sep 12, 2014
I was called a hypocrite last week. Not to my face, the individual is too cowardly to look me in the eye. No, he took...