The State of Sustainability in the UK Party Conference Season
Every year I listen to the Leaders' speeches from the UK Party Conference season to analyse their commitment to Sustainability. I've long argued that leadership...
The need for ‘outrageous ambition’ on Sustainability
Dec 1, 2017
I spent yesterday morning at the always-excellent North East Recycling Forum annual conference. The conference chair, the ever-ebullient Mark Shayler of APE, challenged us in...
Can Big Data & AI deliver Sustainability?
Sep 7, 2016
The latest edition of Ask Gareth considers how the hot topics of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence can interact with the Sustainability Agenda. Is the hype...
Should we be exploring space when life on earth is unsustainable?
Nov 14, 2014
Like much of the population on Wednesday, I was gripped by the Rosetta mission to the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Never mind that it's parked worse than my...
If this is war, we must use all the weapons at our disposal
Oct 6, 2014
Every Monday for the last couple of weeks, I've been mulling on one of my proposed Rules of the Pragmatic Environmentalist. This week, it is...
Will you be a carboniferous fossil in a low carbon economy?
Jul 21, 2014
Kodak is often held up as the archetypal extinction of the digital age. The photographic film giant invented but rejected the product - the digital...
Don’t Knock Green Technology – It Might Just Save Us Yet
Nov 9, 2012
If there's one thing the anti-green lobby and the deep greens agree on, it's that green technology will not make a significant difference to carbon...
“Nice idea, but it will never work”
Jun 1, 2009
There is a lovely story (probably apocryphal*) of a student taking a design proposal to the head of Cambridge University Engineering Department. The Prof looked...