“Can we afford net zero?” is the last stand of the climate deniers
It has been really interesting, if somewhat depressing, watching the so-called debate over climate change evolve over the last 15-20 years. Given the basics of...
Your position on climate change is illogical…
Feb 14, 2022
About the time the controversy over Joe Rogan's anti-vat Spotify podcast blew up, a clip of Rogan interviewing Jordan Peterson was also circulating green circles....
My forthcoming big Sustainability change challenge!
Apr 20, 2021
OK, my blogging has dried to a trickle and I've had an overwhelming wave of indifference from my readers... Anyway, the reason for my radio...
Why delivering Sustainability is hard
Feb 18, 2021
Following the recent turbulence in the White House, we've been rewatching The West Wing of an evening - a nice undemanding watch to wind down...
On Climate Change, there’s being right, and there’s being heard…
Nov 16, 2020
Last Sunday, just before 11am, I put on the TV and sat with the kids and watched the wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph. I'm not...
Stay alert: green comms lessons from the Government’s Covid slogans
Sep 28, 2020
The Covid-19 crisis has seen more public behaviour messaging on anything I can remember since AIDS first crashed into the public consciousness in the late...
Plastics recycling *isn’t* a scam…
Sep 16, 2020
Oh dear. Nothing like a journalist who doesn't understand statistics– or deliberately misunderstands them in search of a cheap headline. Arwa Mahdawi, writing in today's...
On tribalism, culture wars and Sustainability
Jun 16, 2020
Following the defenestration of the statue of slave trader Edward Coulson in Bristol last week, a ‘topple the racists’ website appeared listing other statues around...
The “Try Before You Buy” Approach to Sustainability
May 19, 2020
I'm delighted that my adopted home town of Newcastle upon Tyne is going to be the latest City in the world to get 'pop-up' cycle...
Don’t waste time on climate “sceptics”
Feb 3, 2020
Oops, I did it again. At the weekend I spent half an hour drafting an e-mail in response to some climate denial on a (non-environmental)...