Gordon Brown – well done!

Well what a difference a month makes, I have been not able to post to Work of Change for the last month as I have been working on other projects, but what a turn about:

A global economic melt down
An economic recovery package for the banks

Labour in government has handled this well, although if ever this [...]

Effective Environmental Action – Political Stalemate

Why is it not possible to establish decisive government action on the environment in the UK?
I believe we are caught in a stalemate:

The public appears sceptical but open to a change of behaviour and is angrily looking to government for action which it is then likely to resent.

Every political party has articulated a move to [...]

Fit for the future – Environmental performance of our political parties

Today 9 of the country’s most significant environmental lobby groups published their annual review of the environmental policies and actions of the three main political parties. This report entitled ‘Fit for Purpose’ Fit for the Future found a decline in the commitment of all three parties to environmental issues over the last year.
Steve Hale of [...]

World views and political sense-making

In my last post I briefly introduced the concept of world view.
A world view describes a coherent framework that enables complex and sometimes contradictory pieces of information and experience to be assembled into a structure through which people can make sense of the world.
Center Leo Apostel suggested that a world view has 7 components:
1. A [...]

Poltical grass roots change – yes please, but whose!

Reading the political blogs, papers, talking to friends, and colleagues there seems to be large amounts of anger with the government, however behind this there also seems to be a high level of dissatisfaction with the overall political system. Again and again people say that there needs to be change and it should come from [...]

Climate change, man made? Cooperating to sustain our future.

I would like to think about some comments I have received about the nature and political importance of Climate Change in response to my post Climate change, change management and the need for political consensus, I would like to provide my views about some of the really useful comments made.
The Climate is changing
I believe that [...]

Labour in government is failing to prepare the UK for sustainable global economy.

There was further evidence of the failure of the Labour in government in preparing the UK for a positive role in the economy of a sustainable future world.
Ernst Young’s Renewable Energy Attractiveness Indices published on the 19th August said:

China displaced the UK in the top five most attractive countries for investment in renewable energy for [...]

Politically confused.com

I have been doing a review of the political parties policies and actions concerning global warming and sustainability. Thus I have spent the last few weeks wading through party manifestos, speeches, policy documents, news reports, opinion polls, reports from lobby groups, and blogs.
Two things occur to me;

Firstly that is two weeks of my life I [...]

Climate change, change management and the need for political consensus.

Over the last week I have been reviewing the major UK political party’s positions concerning climate change and sustainability.
What has been most interesting is the start stop nature of their attempts to take action. This has been especially true of the Conservatives who have made initially bold policy presentations only to back away when the [...]

What of the public, what do they feel about climate change?

I have been reviewing the major UK parties with respect to the policies and action about sustainability and climate change. In recent posts I have discussed Labour, the Conservatives, the Lib Dem’s, and also Plaid Cymru, I will move on to the Green’s and the other nationalist parties but in this post I want to [...]