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This is a kind-of PS to my blog yesterday on Solar Independence Day, simply to share with you the latest inspiring update from Jeremy Leggett of SolarAid / SunnyMoney fame. His success on the ground across Africa provides ample cause for launching a new campaign to KILL KEROSENE – with kerosene…

Today is Solar Independence Day. And I feel angry – at this Government’s incomprehensible failure to seize hold of the opportunity to promote the UK’s solar industry as one of the best ways of ensuring a low-carbon, secure, sustainable energy system for our country. Really angry. In fact, I…

Seagulls are much on my mind at the moment. Urban bloody seagulls! Of which we would appear to have a huge number in Cheltenham, many of which would appear to like nothing more than starting their day (at around 4am) in the immediate vicinity of our house. And I have to admit that I would be…

“The problem about sustainability is that it’s all about systems thinking. And the modern world just doesn’t do systems thinking – whether you’re talking science, policy-making, health, education – or anything else that matters, for that matter!” That little observation was dropped into the middle…

At the heart of the notion of sustainable development lies the very big idea of justice between generations. What makes economic development either sustainable or unsustainable is the degree to which it not only produces substantive economic benefits for people alive today (in terms of jobs,…

If you segment ‘the history of the modern environment movement’ over the last 45 years, (seen through the lens of my governance triangle – see below), there would be three main stages. The first stage was mostly about national governments instigating a massive roll out of environmental regulation,…