Wales, Rio, green capitalism and dragons
Right across the world, amongst communities of interest and communities of place, the concept of what a truly sustainable society might look like has been incubated, debated, tried and tested.
Extract
A boy grew up in this garden. They say his second book “Wealth of Nations” will change the world forever.
Gorillas don’t eat chocolate
Let’s make the chocolate brand stand out from the crowd by associating it with really cool things like gorillas, rock stars and a glass-half-full approach to life. Success! Sales across the [...]
Money ain’t everything
Shell’s drill ships are setting off for the coast of Alaska, proceeding with plans to drill 10 exploratory wells – and with no proven way to clean up an oil [...]
The historie of bees
Even in the 17th century we were writing odes to the bee. Here is my 2012 ode … dedicated to Charles Butler, erstwhile bee keeper and to our golden bees [...]
What about Fracking?
“We have used the best available data [and] the conclusion is that shale gas may indeed be quite damaging to global warming, quite likely as bad or worse than coal,” BBC News.
Hollow Words
The Renewable Energy Foundation continue to lend their expert advice to organisations and governing bodies across the country. From the name you would expect to be dealing with a nice green charity that supports renewable energy. On the other hand, my research so far suggests that the main body of work undertaken by members of this charity consists of undermining the renewables obligation, promoting wind turbine scare stories in the press, helping to build local anti-wind campaigns and presenting cherry-picked data in such a way that it could also be called spin.
Our energy system and the future II
The UK is stretched between the urgency of climate science and the changing availability of resources; between short-term and long-term economics; between power and ethics.
Spring
“… we would be gathering on the mountain and the wind, raw and mean, would change, just for a second. It would touch your face soft as a feather. It had an earth smell. You knew springtime was on the way … then ice would break and melt on the high ridges … and the sap start running up in the trees. Granpa decided when we would begin. He would run his finger into the ground and feel for the warmth. When the day was just right, then we planted …” Forrest Carter
Over-use of the word fiscal
“We are going to stop being bullied by bankers and carbon heavy corporates and just re-evaluate everything. We want lots more local vegetable growing, youth theatres, children with muddy knees, mixed farms, car free streets, new soup recipes, renewable energy, knitting, guitar lessons, singing at the office, cycling to work, fresh air, home made jam and we want safe places for hedgehogs to cross the road,” Osborne continued.
