Stay alert: green comms lessons from the Government’s Covid slogans
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)...
Why Extinction Rebellion needs to learn some Green Jujitsu
Oct 18, 2019
The Extinction Rebellion (XR) climate crisis movement hit brutal reality yesterday when an attempt to halt the London Underground led to an ugly brawl as...
Why the ‘I’ word is key to Sustainability
Sep 30, 2019
No, not that one. It's never about 'I' when it comes to Sustainability, it's all about them... and the best way to get them engaged...
Let’s open up Sustainability to others…
Sep 19, 2019
I recently posted a piece on LinkedIn about Greta Thunberg's laudable attempt to bring the climate crisis to public attention, but warning that her message...
Don’t make people freeze with climate fear…
Sep 16, 2019
I sometimes come under fire for my optimistic, gung-ho approach to tackling climate change and other Sustainability issues. Part of this is my pragmatic, trained-engineer...
Is Greta Thunberg’s odyssey really the climate message we want to send?
Aug 19, 2019
I have utmost respect for Greta Thunberg, the teenage Swedish climate activist. The way she has serenely raised the issue of climate change and braved...