Many of our governing bodies at both national and local levels are declaring a climate emergency. But what does this mean? Do we carry on as before or are we meant to do something differently? We usually think of an emergency as some event that has happened that requires an urgent need for action toContinue reading “What is a Climate Emergency?”
Author Archives: Steve Martin
MEAT OR VEG ?ANOTHER WICKED SUSTAINABILITY ISSUE!
A new dilemma for those who advocate Veganism is on the agenda of the forthcoming Oxford Farming Conference. Farming and other interests are now arguing that it is vital we eat more lamb and beef because some crop plants and fish are being drained of essential nutrients.A heart specialist who is speaking at the conferenceContinue reading “MEAT OR VEG ?ANOTHER WICKED SUSTAINABILITY ISSUE!”
2020 – TEN YEARS TO SAVE THE PLANET!
This is the front-page headline carried by the Daily Mirror on New Year’s Day. Will this be the year transformative change happens? Or will we face another decade of business as usual? One relatively simple test of our current trends in decarbonising our lifestyles is to ask ourselves this question: How many cars can theContinue reading “2020 – TEN YEARS TO SAVE THE PLANET!”
Once upon a time there was a little Dutch boy who discovered a leak in a North Sea dike in Holland( a story of flooding risk and its remedy adapted from the true story!)
What should he do? From a single leak, a terrible breach might grow. The whole country could be flooded, and everyone he knew would drown.Like any well behaved and responsible boy he did the only thing he could think of. He stuck his finger in the dike, and the leak stopped.Of course, now he wasContinue reading “Once upon a time there was a little Dutch boy who discovered a leak in a North Sea dike in Holland( a story of flooding risk and its remedy adapted from the true story!)”
The Ecology of Thought and Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
“As Aristotle put it long ago, human beings are distinguished from other species by our ability to use language. Yet too often, at our jobs and in our business, we don’t listen to one another. Invested in our views, we explain when we should inquire. Caught up in our own preconceptions, we disguise our feelingsContinue reading “The Ecology of Thought and Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”
Climate Change and the proposed housing development on The Wolds Matlock
Can we Safeguard the Future of the Town ? Richard Arkwright and John Smedley(and son) were celebrated Victorian entrepreneurs. Their visionary use of the streams and rivers which are so abundant in the Derwent Valley, led to the development of innovative hydro-engineering systems, which powered the industrial revolution and factory-based cotton textile production in theContinue reading “Climate Change and the proposed housing development on The Wolds Matlock”
RIGHTS OF PASSAGE IN HYDERABAD
Tea and cucumber sandwiches with the only female Nobel Laureate, Dorothy Hodgkin and tea and banana breakfasts with a Ghandi! In early 1979, I was awarded a visiting science fellowship by the British Council at the University of Hyderabad, India. And, amongst a range of life affirming and memorable experiences, I was the only guestContinue reading “RIGHTS OF PASSAGE IN HYDERABAD”
Did Environmental Education in Sweden help create the Phenomenon of Greta Thunberg?
I’m asking this question because I was interviewed by NBC Universal on Sunday about this. They are creating a programme about Greta and wanted some “expert” advice from someone who knows? A quick search on the internet and surprise surprise you will find a paper I and a few colleagues from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate wroteContinue reading “Did Environmental Education in Sweden help create the Phenomenon of Greta Thunberg?”
And we regret the process of our age … (ILiKETRAiNS)
Epic tales of floods (climate change), knowledge, wisdom and uncertainty set the context to this ambitious CD recording by the Leeds based indie group-ILiKETRAiNS. Released at a time (2013) when the world’s leaders were struggling to come to terms with the impact of widening global austerity, major conflict zones and catastrophic and unpredictable weather systemsContinue reading “And we regret the process of our age … (ILiKETRAiNS)”
LEARNING BY DROWNING?
It’s not difficult to see our blighted little island as a “tiny speck” of land sitting rather vulnerably somewhere in the North Sea and within this speck more and more islands of communities cut off by floods for weeks and months. And in many of these communities there has been an unacceptable absence of resourcesContinue reading “LEARNING BY DROWNING?”
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