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…
June 9, 2023
Caroline Lucas – A Personal Tribute
Caroline Lucas’s decision yesterday to step down at the next election came as a bit of a shock for the Green Party. After 13 years as an MP, 15 years as an MEP, 4 years as a…
May 2, 2019
A Great Big Shout-Out to Extinction Rebellion!
What a fortnight! To have the utterly remarkable Greta Thunberg here in the UK for a couple of days was so inspiring. Her ‘truth to power’ take-down of UK parliamentarians,…
April 26, 2017
Take Courage! – O Ye of Little Faith! – from Earth Day
I can’t say I’ve been the biggest supporter of Earth Day over the years. Not really into formulaic anniversaries, especially when every day should be a bloody Earth Day as far as…
September 8, 2014
Fork in the road? (response to Tony Juniper’s article on Zero Deforestation)
Thanks to Tony Juniper for a great article that rightly raises (again!) the question of what ‘zero’ means when people talk about deforestation. I agree with every one of Tony’s…
September 4, 2014
What does ‘Zero Deforestation’ mean to you?
This is not a trick question. But it sure as hell is a tricky question! As evidenced by a very mischievous article by Ben Webster in The Times today making out that I had just…
July 7, 2014
Telling Cameron: Get Behind Solar!
This is my last word on solar issues – for a bit! One hundred and fifty businesses have joined forces to deliver a letter to David Cameron today – simply to urge him to support…