I am constantly inspired and enthralled by the ingenuity, compassion and creativity of the people around me. For upright, naked apes we’ve come an awfully long way. Our collective model of the universe (our knowledge) spans orders of magnitude and scales which our minds can only barely imagine, let alone experience. Our technology is profoundly […]
Happy Inn menu, Brighton
If you’re looking for the menu for Happy Inn chinese takeaway in Westdene, Brighton then you’re in luck: here it is!
The Copenhagen Bikeshed
I’ve been trying to put Copenhagen’s COP15 into perspective, to synthesise the whole experience into something I can hang on a peg. The more I think about it, the more it resonates with a post I’ve been meaning to write for a while about “The Bikeshed Effect”. “Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed […]
Contraction and Convergence
The climate change policy platform that’s floating just under the surface of negotiations I was privileged to attend COP15 in Copenhagen this week as a member of the Global Commons Institute delegation, headed by Aubrey Meyer. During our attendance, I spent a fair bit of time talking about C&C theory with Aubrey, and felt motivated […]
Google or Tea? Introducing the Carbon:Value Ratio
I’m not even sure this is worth blogging it seems so obvious. I guess the thing that crystallised this concept in my mind was that whole two-Google-searches-is-the-energy-equivalent-of-boiling-a-kettle nonsense, precipitated by a journalist from The Times doing some bad research and choosing a sensationalist headline which ensured that the story did the rounds for weeks online. […]
Are You the Bug in the Rug?
Ever feel lost, powerless or generally adrift? This is a poem that’s always struck a chord with me. Hope it does the same for you: People who fly have a different view of the world than those who spend their lives on the ground. A very wise man once wrote a poem while he was […]