It’s good to be challenged once in a while. It certainly felt like that at today’s Battle of Ideas event, run as part of a weekend of provocative debate by the Institute of Ideas. And provocative it most defintiely was if you’re an environmentalist. Usually with a crowd of a few hundred largely Guardian reading [...]
Posts Tagged ‘green new deal’
Nine people, thoughts and quotes for 2009
Yes I love lists. Here’s one with nine in it, which by a freak act of nature is the number of the new year that we have entered. I hope I don’t run out of juice by number five:
Slow-tech – It’s the title of a book by author Andrew Price. He’s putting forward a philosophy [...]
Sustainability swingometer – Obama and optimism
The latest in my haphazard series of random musings on the future state of the globe.
So just how excited can we get at the prospect of the man who likes to say change entering the White House? Let’s hope he gets there in the first place.
I’m somewhat reminded of the heady days of 1997 when [...]
Credit meltdown
It’s hard to avoid the dramatic developments unfolding by the minute in Wall Street. Experts are now comparing the string of events over the weekend, sparked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, with 1920s for level of meltdown in global markets. So our much-maligned chancellor, pilloried for his gloomy assessment of the economy last month, [...]
