God The Citizen
I do not believe in God but I do believe in a better purpose and an ethical way of being. We have posted before on Rowan Williams’ important interventions in the Climate Change debate and his comments on the (im)morality of excessive consumption. He has spoken again. It is frustrating that we are seeing leadership...
Blue print for green economy – with patches of grey
The Tory Party have just released a pretty radical position and consultation paper on a Low Carbon Economy . Its full of great ideas first suggested over a year ago by the 700 page Blueprint for a Green Economy report by Zac Goldsmith, John Gummer and Citizen Renaissance co-author Jules Peck. It’s got some good...
The Ampere Strikes Back
What a great title for a post – I nicked it from the title of a new EST report ‘Ampere Strikes Back’ which reveals that the dawn of a new ‘ICE (Information, Communication, Entertainment) Age’ (as a proliferation of home entertainment equipment, such as DAB radios, flat screen TVs and laptops, across the UK) undermines...
Last One To Leave Won’t Need to Turn Out the Lights
According to the much promoted Fells energy report just out, the UK could have serious power shortages within 5 years. Professor Fells has said that our politicians have been asleep at the wheel of a slow-speed train-crash on energy policy for the last 20 years. He’s no doubt right – at least based on my...
