Book: Can We Save the Planet?
Out now, published by Thames and Hudson.
Selected other writing:
Guardian opinion (Feb 2020): Beware oil execs in environmentalists’ clothing – BP could derail real change.
New Humanist feature article (Spring 2020): The definite particle How did carbon dioxide go from a 19th-century health fad to planet-destroying pariah?
Guardian opinion (Dec 2019): The planet faces a climate emergency – but activists need to strap in for the long haul.
Guardian opinion (Nov 2019): We’ve already got a climate crisis – let’s not turn it into a culture war.
Mosaic feature (November 2019): Can science break its plastic addiction?
Business Green feature (October 2019): How the 19th century gave us the climate crisis - and the tools to tackle it.
New Scientist opinion (September 2019): The school climate strikes this Friday need the support of adults.
China Dialogue opinion (May 2019): Is the UK having a ‘climate spring’?
HuffPost UK blog (May 2019): Bafta Want More Climate Change On TV? Here's Some Ideas.
New Scientist opinion (September 2018): Why Dorothy Hodgkin should be pictured on the UK’s new £50 note.
Guardian opinion (June 2017): Don’t blame green targets for Grenfell – insulation saves lives.
Guardian opinion (December 2016): Why we’re all everyday climate change deniers.
How We Get to Next feature (February 2016): How One Village Threw Out the Frackers and Went Solar.
How We Get to Next feature (September 2015): The Forgotten Story of the Women Who Built One of London’s Most Iconic Bridges.
How We Get to Next feature (September 2015): How a Broken Toaster Can Help Fix the World: Visiting a “Restart” Party.
How We Get to Next feature (September 2015): DIY Solar Panels Make More Than Energy.
How We Get to Next feature (September 2015): Transforming London into a Giant Park.
Mosaic feature (January 2015): Science for the people! The 1970s radical science movement.
How We Get to Next feature (December 2014): The Global Network of DIY Tear Gas Masks.
Road to Paris listicle (December 2014): Seven polar bears who really care what you think about climate change.
Road to Paris listicle (November 2014): Eight things to remember from 20 years of climate negotiations.
China Dialogue book review (October 2014): Capitalism vs the Climate.
Road to Paris feature (September 2014): Scientists march on New York, and offer much more than a consensus.
Road to Paris feature (September 2014): The New Climate Optimists: Can we be rationally hopeful about the environment?
Road to Paris feature (August 2014): What the Notting Hill Carnival can teach the climate change movement.
Guardian science blog (August 2014): Why are the media so obsessed with female scientists' appearance?
Guardian science blog (July 2014): No one mention the war? Medics and the peace movement.
The Boring Talks/ Guardian science blog (March 2014): How the refrigerator got its hum.
New Left Project/ Guardian comment network (January 2014): Why you should be angry about changes to NHS patient data policy.