Book Review: The Third Industrial Revolution by Jeremy Rifkin
International energy adivsor Jeremy Rifkin's newish book The Third Industrial Revolution has been getting quite a lot of attention in the press, so I thought...
Greetings from (occasionally) sunny Northumberland
Apr 5, 2012
I'm away with family in Budle Bay in Northumberland - just south of Lindisfarne or Holy Island. Budle Bay is part of the Lindisfarne nature...
What Kodak’s demise tells us about cleantech
Jan 23, 2012
Poor Kodak. You couldn't make it up. A classic brand invents a great new technology (digital photography) but decides it would cannibalise their own products,...
There’s no such thing as too much renewable energy
Jan 20, 2012
There were stories in the press this month about £1.2m worth of 'constraint payments' made to Scottish wind farms over Christmas to not generate electricity...
12 for 2012
Jan 5, 2012
Here are 12 potential green business new year resolutions of varying ambition for your business - pick one and drive it through to get 2012...
Is the renewable energy industry getting greedy?
Oct 28, 2011
Twitter and the green press is buzzing with the UK solar industry leaping up and down as they fear the Feed-in Tariff (FiT) is going...
Exclusive: Chris Huhne on the Green Energy Economy
Oct 3, 2011
Last Thursday UK Energy & Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne MP spoke at an event on the Green Energy Economy organised by Newcastle Liberal Democrats...
Fear of a Green Planet
Sep 23, 2011
Despite the fact I've been working "in the environment" for over a decade, I still get surprised at how fearful people are of sustainable solutions....
Why is it so difficult?
Sep 1, 2011
I had lunch on Monday with a cousin of mine who runs a medium size farm. For a long time he has been interested in...
Wrestling with Olympic Dilemmas
Aug 10, 2011
Last night, I caught the BBC's mockumentary series Twenty Twelve about the arrangements for next year's Olympic games. There was a lovely scene where the...