Category: Climate Action
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First they came for…
It is quite chilling to read of such developments below – a “First they came for…” sensation. I find myself once again oscillating between chasing deadlines amidst a pile of day-job work and opening my eyes wide in shock at what is happening around us. “They shouted up: ‘If you…
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Going solar decisions
We’re planning to get solar panels and a battery installed – do we take the Mr Spock or the Homer Simpson approach? Having catapulted ourselves into EV ownership at the start of 2024, we’re now sizing up options for installing solar panels and a battery. Wow, you really do start…
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What can we do as Transport Professionals to Help Save the World?! (Or at least try…..)
My wonderful Mott MacDonald colleagues Leora Wilson and Anna Tyler decided to aim high with the first exam question of the year in their co-hosted technical webinar today in Motts. The panel with the privilege of sitting the exam was made up of Kim Yates, Damian Price, Stephen Luke and…
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The trigger event that has led us to EV ownership
Bang! Out of nowhere the other car hit our car. That was 2.15pm last Sunday. Our old petrol car written off. Insurance payout has already come through. Today we paid the deposit on an electric car. This time next week we should have the car at home and the EV…
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Is Sky News being impartial or introducing false balance in this interview?
Is Sky News being impartial or introducing false balance in this interview? Why not take 10 minutes to watch the interview in full and weigh up what you make of it. In terms of the interviewees, Zoe Cohen is a prominent climate activist who makes it her business to draw…
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Transitioning to Net Zero
I’ve just taken part in the first 2024 webinar from the Association of European Transport’s Transport and Mobility Forum. Hosted by Conall Mac Aongusa, Chaired by Derek Halden and with Susan Krumdieck and Elizabete Arsenio alongside me on the Panel, we got stuck into the wicked matter of the future…
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Extinction Rebellion – walk in your own shoes in 2123
Handmade Extinction Rebellion Christmas tree decoration from Robin Lyons and Catt Lyons. An intensely personal gift which I love 💚 As the season that marks the high point of our capitalist year comes to an end, have a think about XR and Just Stop Oil. These are not terrorist eco…
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Britain 2023: Six months in prison for peacefully walking on a road
As many of us stagger into Christmas, dazed by the surreal existences we now lead where we simultaneously get on with the day job while facing the extential threat of climate change, peaceful protesters are being imprisoned. When I began my career in transport over 30 years ago I could…
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COP28 or COPOUT28? Let’s ask Robin Lyons
COP28 or COPOUT28? On the day the thrashed-out result emerged, I have been proudly attending the graduation ceremony of my son Robin Lyons. Alongside running Ergon Theatre (one of the UK’s leading climate theatre companies) and his own carbon literacy training company ‘Climate Leadership Training’ (https://www.climateleadershiptraining.co.uk/), Robin has studied full-time for his Masters…
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Just Stop Oil. How much plainer could it be?
Just Stop Oil. How much plainer could it be? We are up shit creek. Oil lobbyists, right through into the heart of COP28 and with their tendrils into governments and the media, are fighting like cornered rats. They are banking on the fact that most people seem either ambivalent, in…
What the hell is going on? 