Burning biomass has long been misclassified as ‘renewable energy’. The reasoning was always overly simplistic, and amounts to little more than: “we can always grow more trees, amirite?!” …

I am, after years of debating — and saving — finally having solar panels fitted to the roof of my house, combined with a home battery pack. The soaring costs of gas and electricity in the UK have finally tipped the balance to make this financially justifiable — the ‘payback…

I can’t quite believe I’m having to write this, but here goes: 15 Minute Cities are a really, really good thing. I’ve been a fan of the concept since visiting Paris in 2016 to research my book about air pollution, during the early stages of Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s “la Ville…

It’s just before 9am on a Monday, and I’m rushing around my house turning everything off. The TV, normally on standby, suffers the ignominy of being turned off at the wall. There’s a mad rush to make my wife’s first coffee of the day (my tea is already in a…

You’d be forgiven for thinking that a global energy crisis would have slowed investment in renewable energy and clean tech. But you’d be wrong. The annual (2023) Energy Transition Investment Trends report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) came with surprising — and encouraging — findings. Not only has global…

A Major New Report Says ‘Yes, Life Gets Cheaper’ Perhaps the most common — and damaging — myth that surrounds Net Zero is that it will make life more expensive. A major new report by the (Conservative) UK Government has now, categorically, proven that to be false. The review was commissioned by the UK Government to assess the best…

Nitrogen is central to all life on earth. Without it, plants can’t grow. Prior to the Green Revolution of the mid-20th Century, the only means of feeding extra nitrogen to crops to boost growth was via organic, rotation agriculture. The Haber-Bosch process changed all that, finding a mechanical way to…

Many of us trust home-grown vegetables more than shop-bought, while parents typically want children to eat healthily and play outside: ‘grow your own’ can be a great way of achieving both aims. …