Birmingham Music Concert Trouble

Oh Birmingham had some safety problems at their Christmas light switch on concert. This was the standard for quality for medium sized music concerts.
 

During the planning of this concert we advised Greenpeace on how to take their Rainbow Warrior fundraising CD into a live event. The next year they took over as co-promotion of the [...]

E. Coli and Childrens Zoos

Well in the UK we have a warning that children under 5 should not touch farm animals by Prof Hugh Pennington. Does this really make sense or is it just another example of ‘counter intuitive policy planning’ as Prof Jay Forrester would say.
Is the problem not that children are infected by E.Coli? But that children are [...]

Criminal Record Checks

“If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about” or variations on the phrase is used by some people to describe their feeling over criminal records checks or ID cards.
Though well meaning, this is a naivety born out of a lack of experience. What many people don’t realise is that police officers are [...]

Celtic Lion Newsnight

A place for BBC Newsnight bloggers to come and put their thoughts they might want others to know, which they think might not fit with the BBC Newsnight Blog. Celtic Lion understands. Feel free to post. The first time you post it automatically comes to be moderated, after that just be respectful to others.
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How Did They Do That?

Just searching for applied planetary engineering and this appeared near the top of the list. Wow.
http://www.zoominfo.com/people/Thomas_Roger_721082783.aspx
At the bottom they even got my brief resume when I was one of the scientists that set up the new generation of climate models. How did they know all these were my work? How did they know the difference [...]

Ecological Repairs

Even joinery and renovation should be considered ecological and sustainable.
A client who I was doing some garden construction for, (a rubble site to a self managing sustainable garden) told me his garage window was rotten and would have to get a new one and get someone to fix it and paint it.
To me this made no sense. [...]