Donald Rumsfeld was right (about one thing, anyway…)
Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary under George W Bush has long been derided for this explanation of the flimsiness of the evidence for going to war...
Will you be a carboniferous fossil in a low carbon economy?
Jul 21, 2014
Kodak is often held up as the archetypal extinction of the digital age. The photographic film giant invented but rejected the product - the digital...
My Generation (or the next…)?
Jun 20, 2014
I was speaking to a senior manager from a major company last week, a gent of a certain age on the brink of retirement, and I...
The First Law of Sustainability
Jun 2, 2014
The Second Law of Thermodynamics says: The entropy of a closed system always increases. Indulge me here for a minute... Entropy is a measure of...
Are you capturing all the benefits of Sustainability?
Mar 14, 2014
The news that wind power is saving Europe €2.4bn worth of water each year (source BusinessGreen) reminded me that we need to capture all the benefits...
The Green Economy IS Happening
Feb 24, 2014
Last Thursday, on the last full day of my Cumbrian holiday, I took the elder two boys back to Hodbarrow nature reserve and, after...
My Prediction for 2014: The Year of the Resource Crunch
Dec 31, 2013
Back in 2009/10 when I was writing The Green Executive, I interviewed 18 senior sustainability practitioners to generate fresh case studies. I asked all of...
A Big Shout Out to SolarAid!
Dec 24, 2013
My eldest son Harry came home a couple of weeks ago and announced that he wanted to collect money for "poor people in Africa." This...
Smash the System!
Dec 16, 2013
You might have noticed these little fellas popping up around the country - self contained keep left signs which rely mainly on their reflective properties...
Are we winning?
Nov 8, 2013
Regular readers may have noticed a rather upbeat tone to my posts here recently. And for good reason. Renewables starting to take big chunks out...