Political debate and sorry, Mr Brown

In the real world of politics the politicians were given one of their too infrequent doses of reality on 1st May when elections were held for many local councils and the important position of Mayor of London. I think that all the major politicians who were up for election have an sense of moral justice, [...]

Suing their wrappers off; journalists upset Tesco

You can sue the pants off someone, but you cannot sue the wrapping off.
 
Yesterday I blogged about Tesco’s noble aspiration which was to help its customers tackle climate change. The way Tesco decided to help its customers tackle climate change was to label twenty items that it sells with a carbon footprint. There, job done! Tesco can [...]

Overhauling solar grants by leaving them “same old same old”

When is an overhaul not an overhaul? The answer is simple; when the Government of England and Wales adjusts an incentive program without really making any changes.
 
The Low Carbon Building Programme has been “overhauled”. The scheme is in effect a way of subsidising householders who want to install some form of microgeneration.  The most popular microgeneration [...]

An hour for the earth

I visit schools from time to time when they organise environmental events, and I am always impressed with how simply and accurately children see things. It is important, as one of my responders on this weblog writes, we must not to scare the children with fears of global warming, but in my experience the children [...]

Hospital car parking and climate change - a national Health service disgrace

Climate change, almost unreported eight years ago when I established Genersys is now a subject that has become for many a marketing opportunity and for others an excuse for bad behaviour, shameful policies and practices. 
I suppose it started with BP, who was initially very active in photovoltaic cells. BP’s core business is the extraction of [...]

Biomass or biomess?

I wrote the article below for the Building Services Journal, who have kindly allowed me to reproduce it here.
Biomass is on everyone’s list of an environmentally friendly and sustainable energy sources, even though it involves burning fuel.  Many developers these days have to comply with the Merton Rule, whether they are environmentalists or not. This [...]

Mr Benn’s Climate Change Bill

The Environment Minister Mr Hilary Benn thinks that the Climate Change Bill (published yesterday) is a landmark in environmental legislation and will set us firmly on the path to the low-carbon economy fundamental to our future. Well, he got the bit about low carbon being fundamental to our future, although I would have used the [...]

Environmentally friendly business

If a business designates itself as “environmentally friendly” it does so to encourage people who believe in the importance of being environmentally friendly to use its goods and services, so that the business can make more money. If a business is genuinely environmentally friendly most people would prefer to use it instead of an environmentally [...]

Climate Change and what we do - Truth and Lies

I wrote this for H&V News, and lots of people wrote to me saying that they agreed with my sentiments. It will be an interesting start to my weblog.
Some truths are virtually self evident; one is that climate change is the greatest challenge facing the world today which we can only really mitigate by emitting [...]