I’m writing this on January 1st. The back door is open, blowing away the smoky air from last night’s fireworks along with the remnants of a slight hangover. In fact, it’s a beautiful Spring morning… Now I’m not going to reminisce about the days when Winter meant rain, sleet and snow but it’s not right […]
Author: alipilling
A day in the life of unintegrated travel
On a trip out with my son last Friday, we followed one of my rules for public transport and left with ‘a bus to spare’. If this bus didn’t show up, we’d still have time to get where we were going on the next. It’s tough in the bus industry at the moment as driver […]
Jet Zero – not what it says on the tin
In my time, I’ve had something to do with maybe a couple of dozen business cases, most of which eventually ended up in front of assurance teams at the Department for Transport. It’s the job of these people to look at your Business Case from the standpoint of each of the standard five sections – […]
How can we change?
After Monday’s IPCC report, it seems as good a time as any to begin the blog on my new website. The best-case scenario in the report – global net zero by 2050 or so – still brings with it more extreme weather events, floods, heatwaves and droughts, with some areas being much worse hit than […]