This page displays a random selection of blog posts
– reload the page to get a new selection.
-
Are you consciously weighing up the difference around you?
Karen McShane is one of the most inspirational women I know. I am proud to know her as a friend and colleague. It therefore saddens me that she has been given an amplified sense of being othered by a recent supreme court ruling. We have been taking important steps forwards towards a more inclusive society Read more
-
Warning – the 15-minute country is coming
Watch the video for this post here. 📢 Exclusive – thanks to an undercover investigation by the anti-woke and anti-antifa press alliance, we can reveal the alarming news that plans are in place for the 15-MINUTE COUNTRY. While we thought we had fought off the threat of local communities having access to what they needed Read more
-
10 years ago today I began my secondment as Strategy Director with the New Zealand Ministry of Transport
10 years ago today I began my secondment as Strategy Director with the Te Manatū Waka – Ministry of Transport (New Zealand). I flew over 11,000 miles to get there. I ended up making the NZ trip four times – over 90,000 fossil-fuelled miles. It was one of the great privileges of my career working as Read more
-
Emissions from aviation – bunker or bunkum?
Bunkers or bunkum? Once upon a time there was a flight of fancy that aviation only accounted for 1% of UK transport emissions. Then international aviation was included and this increased to 20%. New ‘bottom-up’ research suggests the figure is more like 60%. What the hell is going on? Academic colleagues Zia Wadud, Adeel Muhammad Read more
-
What the Zuck?
Hey – what do you think of my Zen Diagram? There is so much to learn from billionaires these days. I can see what the problem is now. We’ve let truth get out of control. Maybe we’ve become too godly. A quick scan online of the Ten Commandments brings me to number nine which is Read more
-
South Africa’s energy and water crises
When crises start to bite…. We’ve all experienced the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. In the news now from France is a clamp down on swimming pools because of water shortages. For those of us in the Global North that sounds like it’s impinging upon comfortable lifestyles (which not everyone enjoys). Imagine water shortages that Read more
What the hell is going on? 