Two major industrial trends have cast a long shadow over the environment during my working lifetime. The first was the idea of built-in obsolescence which developed in the 1970s. More recently, this has been dubbed premature obsolescence. After the MAD […]

In June 2017, I met someone from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at a conference. She seemed somewhat bemused at the changes that were starting to be made at her agency following Trump’s election.  Political ructions had happened plenty […]

Covid is continuing  to dominate our lives. I decided after the 1st UK lockdown that there was going to be a fundamental shift in teaching and it was not going to be possible to have face to face workshops any […]

When Douglas Adams wrote the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Britain hadn’t long joined the EU. The book became a sensation and it gradually turned into a series. The author described his tardiness in producing the promised sequels with the […]

The term ‘megadrought’ has started to be used more often in recent years. Continental climates have always suffered from these events but the frequency and severity is increasing. Why? A recent BBC programme, BBC World Service – Discovery, Megadrought in […]