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Why The Public Can Change (Conditions Apply) - Monday, April 28th 2008 6:46 AM
On March 11, 2006 – just over two years ago as I write these words – I published an article on The Earth Blog called, “Why The Public Won’t Change”, opening with the...
What If...The Lights Went Out? - Wednesday, March 26th 2008 4:52 AM
A darkened room, its walkways dimly illuminated by emergency lighting and the displays of monitoring equipment, rumbles with the vibrations of cooling systems injecting...
USA Syndrome (or Why China Is Suddenly Bad) - Wednesday, February 27th 2008 6:46 AM
It is often said that the greatest fear of both the politician and the businessman is that somewhere, someone is doing something that he has no control over. Witness the...
The Problem With...Hope - Thursday, January 24th 2008 8:16 AM
I need to talk to you about hope. I need to warn you about having it, for merely by having hope you could become nothing more than a bundle of ineffectual good intentions....
6 Things You Must Do - Friday, December 28th 2007 3:03 AM
Lists are useful things: shopping lists, lists of things to do, lists of addresses, lists of names and numbers, lists of articles to write. I do keep a list of articles to...
The Night Shift - Thursday, November 29th 2007 7:25 AM
It is 3:30 in the morning as the cold winter air paws at the roof tiles, and the drizzle softly obscures the blind windows of our sleeping house. In a chilly annex, unseen, a...
The Problem With...Homogeneity - Tuesday, October 30th 2007 2:14 AM
“Fair and Lovely” advert, Unilever Pakistan. It was one day in 2003, perhaps, when we used to have milk delivered to our door early enough for it not to become curdled by...
The Atmosphere Is Not For Sale - Thursday, October 4th 2007 3:41 AM
Dr. Orva:         Here, smoke this. And be sure you get the smoke deep down into your lungs. Miles Monroe:  I don't smoke. Dr. Orva:...
Campaigning On The Edge Of Society - Monday, September 10th 2007 2:55 AM
Do you feel like breaking the law today? If you don’t then I apologise profusely because, depending on where you live, you may have already broken it – just by looking at...
Defusing The Methane Timebomb - Friday, August 17th 2007 1:40 AM
What will be the most serious threat to life on this planet in the next 50 years? Go on, ask someone. What did they say?  "Carbon dioxide emissions", "marine pollution",...
What If...We All Stopped Breathing? - Friday, July 13th 2007 8:44 AM
We inhale, we exhale. In, out, in, out, inexorably taking in the air around us, processing it through our lungs, into our bloodstream and every cell in our bodies, and then...
The Other 1 Percenters - Monday, June 18th 2007 2:09 PM
The other 1 percenters,make the streets their own,not safe for people,(on foot, bike or pram).Porche, Bentley, Dodgethe issue,We don't have a problem, Houston.The oil is still...
What If...It Wasn't Our Fault? - Saturday, May 19th 2007 2:38 PM
I can see the waves lapping slowly along the road, the silt creating pools of alternately transparent and opaque water, occasionally revealing yellow and white lines where...
The New Shopping Order - Thursday, April 19th 2007 2:38 PM
“Buy a lot of stuff, you're a good citizen. But if you don't buy a lot of stuff, if you don't, what are you then, I ask you?” (Jeffrey Goines, Twelve Monkeys, 1995)...
Some Things Are Too Horrible To Ignore - Thursday, March 22nd 2007 2:15 PM
Have you ever walked along the street and found that you are purposefully ignoring something because you think your mind is playing tricks with you? You know the kind of thing,...
Whose Carbon Is It, Anyway? - Wednesday, February 21st 2007 1:48 PM
This article is about the carbon emissions that many of us don’t know about, or perhaps choose to ignore. It is about the carbon emissions that are only indirectly related...
The Problem With...Being Normal - Tuesday, January 30th 2007 2:47 PM
Here is a small confession : I don't consider myself to be normal. I wish I was. I strive to save energy, reduce the damage I do to the planet and work hard to think of...
Did You Have A Good Life? - Tuesday, January 9th 2007 12:33 PM
Sorry, it's too late, your life ends tomorrow. Did you have a good one? Think hard, there isn't much time. Alan “Come in, my friend, find a space. I know it doesn’t...
The Problem With...Christmas - Thursday, December 7th 2006 6:44 AM
The Emma Maersk - a 45,000 tonne container ship from China, renamed the “SS Santa” in honour of its mission - arrived in the UK on 4 November 2006, loaded with thousands...
What If...There Were No Countries? - Friday, October 27th 2006 1:07 AM
“What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America,...
Never Trust A Celebrity Philanthropist - Tuesday, October 10th 2006 2:10 PM
It seems a bit harsh to be saying this, but I don’t trust anyone who publicises the donation of money. Not to say there is anything wrong with having money, or giving it away,...
The Problem With...Plastic - Friday, September 22nd 2006 3:45 PM
Look around you, and what do you see? If you are in or around a modern building, vehicle or other man-made structure then the chances are that you will be able to see some...
What Is The Point Of Investing In The Future If There Is No Future To Invest In? - Thursday, September 7th 2006 3:56 PM
I am fortunate enough to have a pension that will give me something to live on in old age, if I live that long. Like hundreds of millions of people, I also have a bank account...
The Problem With...Tourism - Thursday, August 24th 2006 3:01 PM
The human race is a race of travellers; we have imagined, discovered, explored, charted and opened up almost all of the Earth's land surface, and are rarely content to stop...
What If...The Population Stopped Growing? - Monday, August 7th 2006 4:06 PM
Is there a more pressing problem in this era of a constantly degrading global environment than the sheer number of people on the Earth? At over six and a half billion people and...