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« Previous EntriesJeff Rubins on economic growth, localisation and energy?
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010Does economic growth depend on cheap energy, specifically oil? Can we decouple growth from increased energy use?
Can we shift to a lower energy, more energy efficient economy? Will we simply move from flying to taking high speed rail and electric cars? What will society look like and what will happen to the global economy?
Economist and [...]
Iszy Peck - normal is not the same as right!
Thursday, May 21st, 2009Iszy Peck is a Bristol based singer-song writer, with a lot on her mind . . . .
Let’s Save Ourselves
Are we going to tell ourselves that it is our right to live however we want? Is it too hard to change? Or, are we going to accept that many of the things we now consider [...]
Sign of the Times - The battle over Heathrow
Monday, January 12th, 2009Whilst thumbing through the Times today I came across a full page advert that stopped me in my tracks. No doubt placed in part to coincide with the protests against a third runway being held at Heathrow. Tackling climate change is again and again referred to as the single most important issue to face mankind. [...]
10,000 planes - A GreenThing film
Friday, January 9th, 2009This is a great little film, Stay Grounded, from the guys at The GreenThing. Someone asked me last night “how hard is it never flying?”. . . well I occasionally find the idea appealing on one level but really once the false connection with holiday is broken it’s not such a big thing. I enjoy [...]
What will all the engineers and scientists do when civilisation collapses?
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008I am going to be wildly optimistic as there is little point in anything else and I’ve been getting very depressed about our chances of averting civilisation crushing climate change lately! I still can’t persuade too many of my friends to cycle to Cornwall or train to Scotland, rather than taking a plane to the [...]
Daniel Start’s wild swimming around Britain
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008I met Daniel Start at the end of last Summer when he moved into my friend Jo’s house in Bristol. He’d just finished writing a book, Wild Swimming, about all the beautiful rivers and pools he’d visited in the UK where you can go swimming and he’s done a blog for us on his travels [...]
Food, farming and flying
Friday, April 18th, 2008As the impacts of oil price on food lead to hunger for millions, there is no better time to change down a gear and find better ways to spend our precious time relaxing and eating locally.
The ever rising price of oil not only directly impacts the price of food through artificial fertilizers, pesticides and [...]
David Cameron’s green Tories
Friday, April 4th, 2008Amazing, that the Tories have come out against BAA and BA business plans, although they lay blame squarely at the Labour Governments feet, naturally. Well maybe this is just the same old political point scoring we know and love, but the fact that a major political party takes on the issue in this way is [...]
Is Videoconferencing the Antidote to Business Air Miles?
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Michael Daw is somewhat of an expert on virtual meetings and in this post gives his take on the potential for technology to replace our ‘need’ if not our desire to fly:
When you took the pledge not to fly, did you take the Gold or the Silver? For those of you who don’t know, this [...]
Fighting the right battle against global warming
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007LowFlyZone response to Tom Robbins Observer article where he questions the need to halt in the rapid growth in aviation.
His reasoning does not add up. Rather than suggest we back off or somehow water down our efforts at tackling our unsustainable lifestyles, cutting out flying is an important signal in accepting and embracing necessary change. [...]