Just had a quick spin through the Tories energy policy paper. Lots of sensible ideas – decentralising energy supply, expanding EPCs and DECs to more buildings, feed-in tariffs, existing stock ideas etc etc. Cameron speaks about them below, believing that being Conservative and green are not mutually exclusive. And there’s a webchat tomorrow you can [...]
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Green tech predictions
In my new role as supposed digital guru I’ve subscribed to the Guardian Tech Weekly podcast. It fits the formula of most of the output from that media stable – roundtable discussions with a fixed stable of journalists as well as a few reports and interviews thrown in. The content span is pretty broad – [...]
James Woudhuysen – sustaina-babble and the credit crunch
To Pall Mall last night for a lecture from James Woudhuysen, the professor of forecasting and innovation at De Montfort University, Leicester. Or alternatively a sustainability iconoclast. By that I mean he has it in for greenies that believe we need to rethink man’s role in the world. So out goes conservation, reduction or going [...]

