Who owns solar energy?
I saw this cartoon on Facebook last week and it made me giggle. Then it made me think. While it is primarily a pop at...
Green Technology: It’s the S-Curve, Stupid
May 2, 2012
When I were a lad in the late 1970s, I dreamed of having my own computer. In my room. I would lie awake at night...
It’s about Leadership, Mr Cameron
Apr 27, 2012
All green eyes were on UK Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday as he made the first environmental speech of his tenure at the Clean Energy...
Make the Leap
Apr 25, 2012
Interesting article in the Guardian this morning from Maria van der Hoeven, executive director of the International Energy Agency saying clean energy is both feasible and...
Book Review: The Third Industrial Revolution by Jeremy Rifkin
Apr 18, 2012
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...