Blogging
As well as this blog, I have also had items published on This Low Carbon Life, the blog of the community group Transition Norwich, and on occasion have been published elsewhere too. Here are links to those posts, most recent first:
- Funding Change – duplicates Funding Change article on this blog
- Transition Computer Games: Anno 2070 – video games review
- Integrating Our Cities’ Functions
- Why the Olympics were good but bank bailouts were bad – also published
- The awesome power of water – on hydro power at Gibson Mill, Hardcastle Crags, republished by Energy Bulletin
- What’s the difference between spending and investment?
- A rational look at brands
- Respect your youngers – inspired by a talk on unschooling, a philosophy of home education
- Treehouse Festival: A demonstration of alternative lifestyle – including summary of a talk on climate change
- DIY Planning Authority and other answers to rogue development – For development week
- There are so many people here! – Third of three posts inspired by Freiburg, Germany
- Bikes, trams and feet – Second of three posts inspired by Freiburg, Germany
- How to make a city Green… and purple, and yellow, and blue – First of three posts inspired by Freiburg, Germany
- Let’s come together in sweet harmony – For music week
- Review: National Planning Policy Framework 2012
- Book Review: Quiet: The Power of Introverts… – Also published on this site here
- Lubrication for the local economy – For Local Currencies theme week
- The Corporation – Review for documentaries week, with some insights into the nature of documentaries
- Mary Portas Review – High Street Collaboration – Third of three posts vaguely on the theme of competition
- Public Sector Cuts: an amplifier for economic problems? – Second of three posts vaguely on the theme of competition
- Risk, or why competition is bad for us – First of three posts vaguely on the theme of competition, republished at resilience.org
- Community resilience requires a look at economics
- Intellectual Adventurousness – For Sustainable Relationships theme week
- Changing the social logic through design – Third of three posts on A Pattern Language, republished by Energy Bulletin
- Places are made of people (and bricks) – Second of three posts on A Pattern Language
- The patterns of a low-carbon life – First of three posts on A Pattern Language
- Look after the pennies… – For Energy theme week
- Transition’s response to Occupy’s concerns
- Who wants to talk about economics?
- I’m not a blogger…! – For Blog Review theme week
- Building resilient trading
- So I’m a transitioner, am I? (also published on this site)
- Sustainable Livelihoods – The first post of Sustainable Livelihoods theme week which I led
- Sustainability – Environmental, Economic, Social – For “Retroblog” theme week
- How does Norwich face the economic equivalent of war?
- Secondary Glazing in a Listed Building (also published on this site) – for Green Buildings theme week
- What if life in the future was all about doing less? – Book review (“How to be Idle”)
- Social Enterprise is the way forward
- Gatherings – The Treehouse Festival – For Gatherings theme week
- The monetisation of health – For Health in Transition theme week
- Transition and Entertainment (similar to this post in the Manifesto section of this site)
- Do we control money, or does money control us?
Apart from online media, I have written a couple of columns on behalf of Transition Norwich for Triangle magazine, distributed to Norwich’s Golden Triangle. I also frequently write news articles for Norwich’s Green Party newsletters and Greenview newspaper.