George Marshall : The Dying of the Light
In the orange light-filled advertising corner : the oil and gas companies proclaiming new, untold riches beneath the melting Arctic. Technology will make us stronger, less polluting and improve the...
View ArticleAustralia : Inundation Nation (2)
The key question tonight in Queensland is : how safe can we make the house before morning ? The second key question that should tonight be asked in Queensland Australia is : are the damages from...
View ArticleWhittling away at energy consumption
Throughout 2011, I changed a number of things in my domestic arrangements in order to reduce energy consumption at home. I have been working with an ecocell small study and action group in North London...
View ArticleOn Being Climate Pragmatic
When it comes to proposals for climate change policy, most studies indicate technological efforts : some, fiscal measures. Few, if any, really consider the pragmatic likelihood of their proposals...
View ArticleFutureproof Renewable Sustainable Energy #3
PRASEG Annual Conference 2012 http://www.praseg.org.uk/save-the-date-praseg-annual-conference/ “After EMR: What future for renewable and sustainable energy?” 31st October 2012 One Birdcage Walk,...
View ArticleBirdcage Walk : Cheesestick Rationing
Yesterday…no, it’s later than I think…two days ago, I attended the 2013 Conference of PRASEG, the Parliamentary Renewable and Sustainable Energy Group, at the invitation of Rhys Williams, the...
View ArticlePositively Against Negative Campaigning
How to organise a political campaign around Climate Change : ask a group of well-fed, well-meaning, Guardian-reading, philanthropic do-gooders into the room to adopt the lowest common denominator...
View ArticleClimbing the Concern Ladder
How do we get things changed in a democracy ? The model of political campaigning that has been established over the last century is failing us. In the past, if there was a problem, a small group of...
View ArticleShell Shirks Carbon Responsibility
I was in a meeting today held at the Centre for European Reform in which Shell’s Chief Financial Officer, Simon Henry, made two arguments to absolve the oil and gas industry for responsibility for...
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