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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On Leaving the Forum – and Looking Ahead!
SD History,Young People,Intergenerational Justice
May 8, 2023
On Thursday last week (04/05), I stepped down from my role as Founder Director of Forum for the Future. Nearly 30 years on since myself, Sara Parkin and Paul Ekins brought the Forum into being. My colleagues organised a wonderful farewell party for me, prompting me (for once!) actually to prepare a…
Germany’s Nuclear Nous versus the UK’s Nuclear Nutters
April 16, 2023
I’m celebrating today – for the simple reason that Germany closed down its three remaining nuclear reactors on Saturday 15th April. I’ve followed the nuclear debate in Germany ever since I first got involved in green politics back in the 1970s, and was hugely inspired by the campaigns of Die Grünen…
Pity the Eight Billionth Child on Planet Earth
Society,Farming,Food,Population,Nature & Natural Capital
November 6, 2022
I hope you’ve got Tuesday November 15th marked up in your diary? According to the UN’s population wonks, that’s the day when the eight billionth human being will be born. Not sure how they know that quite so precisely, and I certainly don’t recall them being that precise back in 2011 when the seven…