Digitisation, smart grids and cyberwarfare
One of the basic principles of pragmatic environmentalism is to embrace digitisation as a way of managing resources much more efficiently and dealing with the...
Resilience
Feb 10, 2014
I took the picture above this time last year as I crossed the Somerset Levels to run a workshop for a major client based in...
If it keeps on rainin’…
Nov 26, 2012
If it keeps on rainin', levee's gonna break... So sang Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy back in 1929 about the Great Mississippi Flood of...
Have you got a Plan B?
Mar 12, 2012
Phew! I'm back on line. Last Wednesday morning Sod's Law kicked in big time - the one day of the month I need uninterrupted internet...
Resilience
Jan 9, 2012
Just this weekend, my partner and I were chatting about the UK petrol protests of 2000 (it's laugh a minute in our house sometimes...). At...
Eyjafjallajoekull and all that
Apr 19, 2010
There are two types of natural disaster - the ones that we can cause like landslides from deforestation, sea level rises from climate change, or...