Greetings from Sunny Scotland
We're holidaying just north of the border from where I live in North East England – in a very secluded location. To get here from the...
Think Different, Think Sustainability
May 25, 2016
Back in 1999,a group called the Energy Technology Support Unit (ETSU) calculated for the Government that the 'practicable' amount of solar power which could be generated...
Reasons to be cheerful (pt 396)
May 11, 2016
Here's a selection of headlines from the last few days: Big Oil unexpectedly backing newest non-fossil fuels Big Oil abandons $2.5bn arctic drilling rights Saudi prince...
Turning ‘OR’ into ‘AND’ for sustainability
Mar 7, 2016
Years ago I was at a regional sustainability workshop and the facilitators made the mistake of giving each table a blank flipchart to list our...
Getting smart on smart grids
Mar 4, 2016
The Smart-grid has always been more talked about than done, but now the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has announced that the UK could save up to £8bn...
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...
Look forward, not back, Mr Cameron
Jan 13, 2016
Twice in recent weeks, UK prime minister David Cameron has answered questions on green issues with a simple and superficially impressive statistic: 98% of solar panels...
Reasons to be cheerful (about green issues)
Oct 12, 2015
I had an old college chum over for dinner last week and we did a lot of reminiscing about our student days and the years...
Goldflush!
Sep 18, 2015
Something I missed earlier in the year was the discovery that when we sit on the toilet, we are literally sitting on a goldmine. US...
Solar subsidies must go… eventually
Aug 31, 2015
Just weeks after promising to "unleash a solar revolution", UK Energy & Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd has announced the Government is considering a massive 87%...