by Peter Knight | Mar 22, 2023 | Blog
An array of sunscreen brands in the discount pharmacy dazzles with its bright packaging sparkling under spotlights. Then everything goes black as the store’s lights fail. For a foreigner this is alarming, but not to locals. They continue shopping by phone...
by Peter Knight | Feb 21, 2023 | Blog
My friend Mike Dibb has been sorting through his past. We’d worked together, moons ago, on a TV series with John Berger, About Time, and now here we are in his kitchen, prising the rusted screws of a sturdy flower press he’d made for his children some 40 years before...
by Peter Knight | Jan 30, 2023 | Blog
Industrial quantities of palm oil substitute are now being made in the lab. While this is certainly good news for Orangutans and their fast-vanishing forests, are faux products like oils and plant-based meats good for us and nature? What seems good now is often found...
by Peter Knight | Jan 2, 2023 | Blog
Large tracts of Britain’s green and pleasant land are being covered in black glass. These are solar farms providing much-needed clean energy, but is the climate emergency sufficiently severe to industrialise our countryside? Drive through the rolling fields outside...
by Peter Knight | Dec 12, 2022 | Blog
While necessary and inspiring, Prince William’s annual Earthshot prize demonstrates our painfully slow progress at finding technical solutions to our environmental problems. “The Earth is at a tipping point and we face a stark choice: either we continue as we...
