January 25, 2024
EDF: A Total Basket Case, Weighed Down By Its £50 Billion Nuclear Turkey At Hinkley Point.
EdF’s bosses must be thanking their lucky stars that President Macron decided to take complete control of EdF back in 2022. Otherwise, its latest announcements about further…
July 5, 2023
IT’S NOT EASY BEING DRAX!
On April 21st, the first day of Extinction Rebellion’s ‘The Big One’, I just happened to be listening in to an ‘open mic’ session when a young man came to the microphone and…
June 26, 2018
Innovation in Construction: From printing concrete to Mirvac still changing everything
I really love it when what were once seen as completely wacky ideas cross that elusive threshold of credibility, and you suddenly find that everyone’s talking about them! And so…
November 7, 2016
Elon Musk: Personifying The Transition
I had one of those surreal moments on Wednesday morning last week. I was up early to clear the usual email backlog, before a hectic visit to Newcastle, before jumping on a plane…
May 27, 2016
One Young World: Confronting Today’s Energy Dilemmas
Just back from a visit to the slightly scary cities of the American south-west – Phoenix and Tucson. Having just read an extraordinarily powerful novel called ‘The Water Knife’ by…
January 25, 2016
Seeking all (young!) energy entrepreneurs!
Ever since I finished The World We Made (more than three years ago now), I’ve been obsessed with the sheer speed of change regarding solar and other renewable energy technologies.…
June 5, 2014
Less of the Brands. More of the Public Policy
If you segment ‘the history of the modern environment movement’ over the last 45 years, (seen through the lens of my governance triangle – see below), there would be three main…