November 18, 2015
Living Well Within Planetary Boundaries
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…
November 13, 2015
Modi (‘Solar Champion’) versus Cameron (Solar Dunderhead)
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:…
September 10, 2015
Community Energy Fortnight: Going on to a War Footing
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…
August 25, 2015
Resurgence/The Ecologist: the latest issue
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…
August 15, 2015
Unilever and Kodaikanal: Truth and Fiction
I’m an NGO-person through and through, but sometimes I do find conventional NGO tactics deeply aggravating. Take the Kodaikanal story, and the current campaign against Unilever. A…
June 9, 2015
Corporate Sustainability Reporting: No Sceptics Here Please!
Thursday last week was a big day for corporate sustainability reporting, with both Carillion and M&S launching their 2014 Reports. It’s so easy for people to be cynical about…
June 2, 2015
Wellbeing in the Natural World
It would be great if World Environment Day 2015 focussed not just on ‘the environment out there’, but on us in the environment out there. Walking, working, reflecting, relaxing,…
June 1, 2015
Ashden UK Finalists: Inspiration for a New Government
New Government; new Ministers in DECC; new opportunities. Which makes it a brilliant time for Ashden to be promoting all its UK Award winners, not just celebrating their success,…
May 30, 2015
The Pope’s Climate Campaign
This is not the first time I’ve blogged about the Pope, and I’m nervous about bigging him up too much given my views on family planning and women’s rights. But as a growing and…
May 21, 2015
Failing Better
The air is still thick with the poignant wisps of personal political failure – after one of the most extraordinary General Elections of the modern era. Failure of that kind is all…