This is my own personal website, and everything on it is here to help illustrate the breadth of all the work I do in the world of sustainability.
I’ve been in that world for a very long time (having joined the Green Party in the summer of 1974), but I genuinely can’t recall ever feeling the same intense combination of despair and hope!
After nearly 50 years of non-stop activism and advocating both for environmental sustainability and for social justice, I’m more persuaded now than ever that this is our time.
Hope often seems very fragile against such a disaster-strewn backdrop, but it still permeates my life as an incorrigible advocate of a solutions agenda that gets more and more substantive by the day.
But I’m grateful I still have such a diverse portfolio – not least to give full rein to my campaigning instincts (working against the insanity of nuclear power and nuclear weapons, for instance, or in support of progressive family planning, electoral reform and a host of other critical causes). And I remain a Member of the Green Party, as well as being Chancellor Keele University, which is a real privilege.
I know I’ve said this before, but I can’t help but think we’re nearing an inflection point – ecologically, politically and economically. So there are some very turbulent times ahead!’
Forum For The Future
As Founder Director of Forum for the Future, this remains my principal organisational base.
As Founder Director of Forum for the Future, this remains my principal organisational base.


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SO WHAT’S YOUR THEORY OF CHANGE?: COP 28 OR JUST STOP OIL?
December 4, 2023
The waves of phoney positivity emanating from CoP28 in Dubai are making me feel sick. “Look at our shiny new Loss and Damage Fund”. “Marvel at the new Emirates Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture”. “Get your heads around new heights of rhetoric about the importance of addressing the methane…
Preventing an environmental disaster – in Faringdon!
Government,Society,Politics,Housing,Net Zero
December 1, 2023
This blog is actually about the shenanigans of an otherwise non-descript little Council (step forward Faringdon Town Council!) which is clearly intent on winning some kind of award for Sustained Environmental Vandalism! But first, a bit of background on planning in general. Back in September, I…
Whitley Fund for Nature – 30 amazing years.
Young People,Nature & Natural Capital
November 17, 2023
Nearly 30 years ago, when I was scrabbling around to find a few people to provide start-up funding for what became Forum for the Future, Edward Whitley stepped up and took a punt on our “crazy idea”. What made this all the more remarkable was that Edward had just launched his very own “crazy idea”,…