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Rudolph the Reindeer threatened
Where are we on tackling climate change? Judged by actions taken we are not even close to achieving the scale, pace and scope of the changes needed according to the best available scientific evidence....
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Zero carbon Bristol by 2030: how?
I'm all for ambitious targets and actions that get to the root of problems, consistent with the scientific evidence, especially when they are as serious and urgent as climate change. I know that when...
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Building sustainability requires processes of change that are sustainable.
In my zero carbon Bristol by 2030 post I referred to having the practicalities in mind when setting targets and timescales, particularly when these are about radical, fundamental changes. I'm saying if...
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Reviewing my reading
1.What is economic progress and success? Interesting development I thought...and then I read the phrase 'promoting sustainableeconomic growth'. You can't sustain growth on a finiteplanet so the phrase...
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Fathoming February
As I write this post parts of the UK are experiencing problems with flooding, notably in Yorkshire and Wales on this occasion. The rainfall figures are quite striking, though what is being reported as...
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Fathoming February Further
To add further detail to the explanation for the UK recording its highest ever February maximum temperature the idea of blocking weather patterns is a useful one. Blocks are significant scale air...
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Progress towards a zero carbon Bristol?
Since committing to achieving a net zero carbon (carbon neutral) city and to taking adequate action to tackle air pollution the Mayor of Bristol Marvin Rees and most of Bristol's City Councillors have...
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Thank you OU - and congratulations on your 50th
Broad-based studying with the Open University has given me two open degrees. This has supported and developed me in so many varied ways as a person, employee, member of my community and citizen of my...
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Climate Change: the Facts
Not sure what all the law breaking by environmentalists in London is about? Climate Change: the Facts, presented by David Attenborough, airs at 9pm on Thursday 18th April (that's tonight) on BBC1 and...
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Tackling climate change: specific actions needed now
Extinction Rebellion wants: the truth about climate change to be told; the creation of a citizens assembly to oversee the changes required; and to reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2025. These have of...
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Candidate for...Chief Climate Change Denier
There are many reasons to oppose Ann Widdecombe as a candidate for the EU Parliament eg her opposition to gay marriage, her climate change denial, her objection to women becoming priests and her...
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Triple crisis: ecological, climate and socio-political
The world we are a part of and dependent on is being laid bare, stripped and unprotected... by us. It is self-harm and ultimately self-destruction if we fail to change. There is a climate emergency but...
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Cabot Circus, consumerism and carbon emissions
In their campaigning for urgent action to tackle the climate and ecological emergency Extinction Rebellion have targeted Cabot Circus shopping centre. This article is about why they are right to have...
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Climate election, ecology election, not Brexit election
Greens of all parties should be working for an election not dominated by Brexit but by the future of life on Earth. That's what they are supposed to be for. Instead they go on far too much about...
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Voting for a Labour Government: the pragmatic choice
We are not going to get a Green government after this 2019 general election. The closest we will get to an eco-socialist government is a Corbyn Labour government. Its current national environmental...
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'Unite to remain' is inept
It should be a climate election and ecology election. But why have the Greens then put such a focus on Brexit, such as in their 'unite to remain' target seats?In online discussion I received this reply...
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Labour policies: visionary and transformative
Corbyn's Green New Deal, Green Industrial Revolution, National Education Service, Plan for Nature, National Care Service and nationalised broadband provision are pretty visionary. Labour's approach is...
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Rebecca Long-Bailey for Labour Leader; Angela Rayner for Deputy
Labour for a Green New Deal (LGND), set up to champion plans for an overhaul of Britain's economy to cut carbon emissions to zero, did not merely endorse Rebecca Long Bailey. They first assessed all...
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World Environment Day: Spin vs Reality
Are environmental problems being tackled? What should we look for to signal that they are? There is so much #spin and #greenwash around pulling the wool over our eyes, so we need to consider with care....
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Crises, crises - you can't get away
Do we seriously think human beings can survive without other species? Diverse species: keep a climate balance vital to our water supplies; produce fertile soil vital to our food production; drive all...
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Save Our Spaces
We’ve all be cooped up in our homes due for a long time due to Covid19 and so we appreciate more than ever the value of local green spaces where we can take a walk. In a city open, green, semi-natural,...
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Centralised, authoritarian power in Bristol
Bristol is now the UK’s leader in ‘authoritarian democracy’. Guest Post from Matthew Montagu-PollockBristol is a lively city, rich but bohemian, with a large...
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Climate emergency declared 2018: no data collected to indicate progress 2021
Today I received a reasonably prompt response to a few questions I emailed to Bristol's newly re-elected Mayor Marvin Rees. Here's what I asked him: '...there remains much that needs to be done to...
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Save Ashton Vale Green Belt from being built over
Below is a copy of my objection to the proposal to build over 500 homes on the Ashton Vale Green Belt in Bristol (more details here). If you also want to comment on the plans you can do so here.I...
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Western Slopes/Novers Hill: from not built up to built over?
My objection to building 157 houses on the Western Slopes (Novers Hill):Green spaces are one of Bristol’s most valued features, the Western Slopes/Novers Hill very far from least.Bristol City Council...
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