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My good friend Walt Patterson has just written (and self-published) a new book. I really enjoyed it – and happily endorsed it: “This is a wonderful, provocative and enlightening…

For me, 2015 is turning out to be the Year of the Oil Palm. It’s already more than a year since I took on the role of chairing the Steering Committee for the High Carbon Stock…

I’ve come to the conclusion that of all the Enemies of Sustainability in this wretched Government, Eric Pickles may well be the worst of the lot. I’ve been tracking his…

It’s a long time since I’ve spent a whole week at a conference or event. Bizarrely, life just seems to get even more frantic as I get older, with the available time sliced and…

It’s a big day today. The new platform, www.collectively.org, goes live! In some respects, this is the end point of a process that started for me more than three and a half years…

As if it wasn’t bad enough for the BBC to have been fingered as a Fox News lookalike earlier in the year for providing endless platforms for climate change deniers , they’re now…

There was an important development on the palm oil front yesterday. • Back in January, five of the big palm oil producers (including Sime Darby, one of Forum For The Future’s…

There’s this crazy American billionaire called Tim Draper, who’s currently spending tens of billions of dollars on raising signatures amongst the voters of California to hold a…

It would be untrue to say that I’m a keen gardener – I just never have been. And I’m not particularly green-fingered either, even with indoor plants. Hardy herbs are about as good…

In the highly controversial world of palm oil and its impact on the world’s forests, a rather important thing happened on Tuesday. But I very much doubt that you will have heard…