Why debate Net Zero if no-one knows what it means?
I tried listening to the BBC Moral Maze 'debate' on Net Zero, but I only got half way through as I was in a public...
When did Sustainability go ‘pay to play’?
Jul 2, 2025
Many years ago, I used to facilitate round table discussions at Low Carbon Best Practice Exchange (LCBPE) events around the country. While I got free...
In the low carbon transition, there are experts and there are ‘experts’…
Apr 30, 2025
Within seconds of the Iberian blackout, the Telegraph splashed a headline that 'experts' had blamed Net Zero policies. "Which experts?" I asked myself with a...
BP’s Bumblebrag Greenwash
Sep 2, 2024
As an avid podcast listener as well as host, episodes of my favourite shows are often interrupted by an actor intoning that BP is now...
Save me from Sustainability Chancers
Apr 15, 2024
Amongst all the standard spam I get, every so often I get people contacting me because they think I may pitch their product to my...
If we don’t learn from (Sustainability) history…
Sep 4, 2023
...we're bound to keep making the same mistakes over and over again. About 15-20 years ago, a local regeneration body tasked the team I ran...
Stop dissing recycling!
Oct 26, 2021
Yesterday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson bullishly overrode the opinions of the expert sitting next to him and told a group of schoolkids that recycling "doesn't...
Save us from Sustainability fads…
Sep 6, 2021
I remember reading an article entitled "We Won't Achieve Sustainability without Mindfulness." Over the next few weeks, many more appeared as green think pieces. Now,...
Who is to blame for climate change?
Aug 23, 2021
During my holiday, the Guardian published an article on what individuals could do to tackle the climate crisis. Almost every point was to lobby somebody...
I don’t care what George Monbiot thinks…
Dec 7, 2020
One thing, amongst many others, that bugs me about the green movement, is its determination to stay firmly inside its comfort zone of a liberal-left...