First blog for a bit – last week I was walloped by what I thought was a bit of a cold at first, but escalated I ended up in bed for most of 3 days, just crawling out from under my duvet to edit last week’s podcast, before retreating back into its warm embrace. I’m much better this week, but far from 100%, so today’s blog is a bit of a ramble through my feverish thoughts of th...

Some of my favourite chats on the pod are with true pioneers of Sustainable business and Nick Brown, the Nik in Nikwax, is definitely one of those. Whether it was literally starting a business empire from his Dad’s shed, seeing off the PR campaigns from the purveyors of PFAS forever chemicals or providing a route for poor Columbian women to escape prostitution and end up as j...

This week I’m joined on the pod by Laura Elms of London public hire company Forest Bikes. We talk about why some bike/scooter hire schemes work and some fail (Mobike owe me 50p!), the challenges of disrupting standard transport modes, whether share schemes really cut emissions, the wider sharing economy, tackling scope 3 emissions and why Forest are planting Giant Sequoias in...

Returning to the outbreak of carbon culture wars, one of the memes used by the anti-Net Zero commentators is that the UK is ‘going it alone’. It sounds like a strong argument: why should we decarbonise while no-one else is? I had already started writing this blog when Paul Marshall, owner of the climate-sceptic GB News channel and manager of £1.8bn of fossil fuel assets wrote...

I’ve recently finished delivering a series of five Sustainability workshops to members of the North East Automotive Alliance (NEAA) ie manufacturers of vehicles and their key suppliers. Do you know what I taught them?

Nothing.

Well, that’s not entirely true, I did add my insights now and then, but the majority of what they learned was from each other...