Posts Tagged ‘election’

Our latest virtual event Sustainability Now starts today. Having focused on international issues at the last one – which coincided with the Copenhagen conference – we’re now turning our attentions to more domestic matters. Not surprising given the unprecedented events in Whitehall in the past six days. So a variety of questions to consider. Here [...]

So what future then post tomorrow for the sustainable quangos? I’m thinking the main ones that you and I come up against regularly: the Carbon Trust, the Energy Saving Trust and WRAP. Climate change minister Ed Miliband pledged to keep the first two whilst on a green road show last Friday which I attended. The [...]

I’ve ranted and riffed on the subject of cycling for some months now, having taken it up nearly a year ago. So it’s interesting to see the issue of two wheels receive occasional glimpses of attention during the past three weeks or so. A couple of pieces cropped up on the Guardian and the Evening [...]

So this is useful. I’ve been chatting with Simon McWhirter from the Great British Refurb Campaign for the past couple of weeks. His outfit has just published a very useful comparison page on the green refurb policies of the big three parties. Only just looking at it now myself so let’s not make any snap [...]

About a month ago my local MP Sadiq Khan knocked on the door. Perfectly pleasant bloke. We chatted about the local hospital, the state of the Northern Line and his boss Gordon Brown. His parting words gently urged me to plump for Labour as in our constituency of Tooting it’s a ‘two horse race’. This [...]

So the leaders debate last night was fun. In a first time it’s happened, TV personality type of fun fashion. But for ideas, proper debate and some real inspiration I was glad I made room for a live debate in London beforehand.
Held at the Clerkenwell BDP office by Demos and RIBA Building Futures it focused [...]

Symbolism is clearly crucial in politics. Which is why the choice of the Battersea Power Station as the venue for the Conservatives to launch their election campaign is very very silly. Leader David Cameron drew parallels in his speech, saying that the crumbling bygone of our industrial past was “in need of regeneration in a [...]

So we are now 29 days away from the election. Fever would probably not be the most appropriate word to describe the atmosphere and anticipation across the land. More like mild flu.
However, now is certainly not the time for us to collectively shrug our shoulders, trot out the line that “they’re all the same” and [...]