May 2015

I listened to last week's Costing the Earth with mounting frustration as it failed to live up to its normal high standards.  The podcast is here. The show came from a foodie event in Green Bristol.  It was billed as a debate,...

It was good to see Plymouth doing so well in the THE Under 50s league table published recently.  I hope all that sustainability stuff they focus on so well has been part of this. The THE says: This is a ranking of...

SMSC?  What's that, you might be saying.  If you are, you're as out of touch as I am (or was).  It's the thing in schools, it seems.  Although it looks rather as if it might be a food supplement [ Take SMSC everyday for...

ecotricity has launched its 2030 vision/manifesto for the Green Britain it thinks we should be living in.  Using research and modelling from Cambridge Econometrics, a consultancy, ecotricity sets out what Britain would be like in 2030 if we adopt ambitious targets for emissions reduction, renewables...

In Wednesday's Guardian, Tom Burke commented on the contrast between the large membership of environment-focused organisations in the UK (4.5 million members, 13% of the population: 10 times as many supporters as all the political parties combined) and the near silence...

Thanks to the SDRN for pointing out that Carbon Brief has produced an interactive online tracker that captures information from UK party manifestos on energy and climate change.  This allows us to see comparisons of energy and climate change policy, including key...

This is my last word on election manifestos.  It has been a dispiriting experience, all told.  I'm going to give the last word to TEESNet and its summarising of a party I have, so far, omitted ... UKIP Reduce the volume of paperwork...

Taking time off from the election, we went to Leiden, to visit "the oldest botanic garden in western Europe" – if you conveniently ignore a couple in Italy.  I fancy we saw it at its very best; there was certainly...

For balance, it seems right to include the manicfesto (sic) of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party in this scrutiny.  The OMRLP has been around longer than UKIP, and like UKIP, has never managed to win a seat at a...