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Posts tagged "smart grids"

“Is the electricity grid ready for Net Zero?” with Paul Glendinning, Northern Powergrid

Feb 21, 2025

With electrification emerging as the prime route to the decarbonisation of transport, space heating and many industrial processes, the gazillion dollar question is, can the...

Digitisation, smart grids and cyberwarfare

May 15, 2017

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...

A Green Industrial Strategy for the UK? Ish.

Jan 23, 2017

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has a reputation as something of an inscrutable sphinx and we only get glimpses of what makes her tick. When she stepped...

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...

Mind the Credibility Gap

Jul 23, 2014

I'm continuing to plough my way through the background information from a sustainability training course I'm reviewing for a client and it's throwing up all kinds...

Green is Cool.

Mar 15, 2013

Home cleaning products company Method has announced new packaging made from recycled plastic. So what? Well the plastic comes from the ocean, not only saving...

Sustainability Champions, Subsidy Junkies and Green Canoeing

Jun 29, 2012

I gave two keynote speeches this week: one at The Value of Sustainability organised by Newcastle University Business School and TADEA, the other at the...

Are we on the cusp of Energy 2.0?

Jun 13, 2012

The Facebook/Twitter/Flickr/YouTube/Wordpress revolution of the last 5-7 years has famously been dubbed Web 2.0. Web 1.0 was like a huge electronic catalogue of information to...

Who owns solar energy?

May 16, 2012

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...

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...

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This week's podcast episode is quite a remarkable story: Derrick Emsley is a multiple entrepreneur whose various businesses have planted 100,000,000 trees.

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How we planted 100 million trees, launched a clothing brand and built a nature-based solutions platform with Derrick Emsley

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