There’s nothing worse than environmentalists encouraging climate inaction
One of my bugbears is the constant attempts to shift the 'blame' for climate change to someone else - whether it is China, Big Business...
Killer Question for Sustainability folks: “Why would anybody buy an SUV?”
Nov 13, 2023
At the Net Zero North East event last week, there was a lengthy discussion about encouraging the general public to change behaviour to reduce their...
Can Chris Packham, or me, or you save the planet?
Sep 25, 2023
I've always felt sorry for the Extinction Rebellion/Just Stop Oil protesters, for two reasons: firstly their evident frustration at the lack of real progress at...
My Car Club – a great example of a product-service system
May 15, 2023
I mentioned a few weeks ago that I’d taken the (supposedly impossible) step of going car-free. Well, not entirely car free, as I’ve joined a...
Is consumerism *really* killing the planet? No, it’s worse than that…
Jul 26, 2021
The green movement has an annoying habit of blaming environmental impacts squarely on capitalism, and consumerism in particular. The anti-capitalist slant ignores the inconvenient fact...
Synergies will deliver Sustainability
Feb 15, 2021
When I was a geeky teen in the early-mid 1980s, the arrival of a BBC Micro Model B into our house was a huge life...
Are we going to #BuildBackBetter? Looks promising from here…
Nov 2, 2020
I looked at my diary this morning and swallowed. A packed week of meetings, client workshops and deadlines, requiring some smart planning, a lot of...
Whose fault is climate change?
Sep 25, 2020
This week, a tweet appeared on my timeline saying "Capitalism created climate change, only socialism can fix it!" I fired back with the Guardian research...
A 2020 Vision for Sustainability
Jan 3, 2020
Happy New Year, everybody! For Sustainability people, 2020 is a bit like when we hit 1984 and the Western World wasn't run by oppressive, manipulative...
Economic growth in a finite world – not as daft as it sounds
Jul 22, 2019
One line which is often trotted out by green activists, most recently by the rather wonderful Greta Thunberg, is "you can't have economic growth in...