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If Volkswagen Built Homes …
December 21, 2015
The Scandal of the Performance Gap in the Housing Industry Many people driving a new car have long suspected that the fuel consumption demonstrated in the manufacture’s brochure is significantly out of line with the reality of the day to day running of the vehicle. And then, just a few weeks ago,…
As the Government Steps Back, the NUS Steps Up!
November 29, 2015
Here’s a rather staggering statistic: UK universities produce one world leader in every 50,000 graduates! I have to admit that I wasn’t aware of that improbably impressive contribution to global leadership four years ago, when I was thinking a lot about the role of students in helping to accelerate…
Living Well Within Planetary Boundaries
November 18, 2015
By far the biggest boundary we have to transcend today is our compulsion to keep on transcending boundaries! Over the last 40 years, I’ve collected any number of definitions of sustainable development. One of my favourites is this: ‘To live on Planet Earth as if we were planning to live there…
Modi (‘Solar Champion’) versus Cameron (Solar Dunderhead)
November 13, 2015
If anyone needed confirmation that this Government’s energy strategy is terminally, irretrievably incoherent, just check out this press release from the Solar Trade Association: 'The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, today will sign £10billion worth of trade deals today including pacts on…
Community Energy Fortnight: Going on to a War Footing
September 10, 2015
This is the first full week of Community Energy Fortnight, coordinated by Forum for the Future on behalf of the Community Energy Coalition (for which FFF provides the Secretariat), and supported by Cooperative Energy. This is the third such fortnight, and BY FAR THE MOST IMPORTANT. And that’s…
Resurgence/The Ecologist: the latest issue
August 25, 2015
A packed issue of Resurgence/The Ecologist for September/October, including Philip Pullman on William Blake, Vandana Shiva on the impact of industrial farming practices on Indian farmers - and my review of two recent books, by Tony Juniper and Dieter Helm: http://www.resurgence.org/