Jon HowardNov 24, 20203 minThat Ferrari might look sexy, but sometimes you need a Ford to do the heavy liftingAs with many things in life, so with vaccines: what shouts loudest and grabs the headlines fastest isn't necessarily the best answer. Whe...
Jon HowardAug 19, 20204 minWe can't let Covid distract us from the climate crisisThe latest edition of the GlobeScan/SustainAbility Sustainability Leaders survey has just been released. Running since 1997, the study as...
Jon HowardAug 12, 20204 minDelivering a Zero Carbon BritainAt the end of 2019, the Centre For Alternative Technology launched Zero Carbon Britain: Rising to the Climate Emergency, a bold but achie...
Jon HowardJul 21, 20204 minIs the post-Covid reduction in choice a problem or opportunity?Choice. Like it or not, it's at the heart of Western consumerism. And one effect of Covid-19 has been there's less of it to go round. Cas...
Jon HowardJul 9, 20201 minContracts for the boysAs everyone gets maybe a bit too overexcited by Rishi's latest bargain bonanza giveaways, we shouldn't let this distract from the other g...
Jon HowardJun 25, 20202 minThe politicisation of humanitarian aid undermines a just futureThe Government has come under a lot of pressure from business leaders over recent weeks to deliver a green and just recovery post-Covid. ...
Jon HowardJun 22, 20202 minThe benefits of reduced consumption as Britain kicks its coal habit for more than two monthsLast week the Drax power station was brought online for regular maintenance. In doing so it contributed some coal-fired energy to the UK'...
Jon HowardJun 12, 20201 minFollow UN sustainable development goals business leaders sayFor the second time in as many weeks, business leaders have written to Boris Johnson asking him to put the environment and social justice...
Jon HowardJun 11, 20201 minIt's time to renew normalSocial policy think-tank Demos has established a people's commission on life after Covid. Headed by commissioners from a range of backgro...
Jon HowardJun 10, 20201 minNo-deal Brexit will cause food shortages worse than coronavirus panic buyingThese are the words of Andrew Opie, director of food at the British Retail Consortium, speaking to the Environment, Food and Rural Affair...
Jon HowardJun 8, 20202 minWe're only making plans for normalAdam Curtis is the king of the cut-and-paste social commentary documentary, and this short is very much in that style (if not quite the C...
Jon HowardJun 5, 20201 minHumanity is finished if it fails to adapt after Covid-19So says Dame Jane Morris Goodall, one of the world's leading primatologists and anthropologists. Particularly if we fail to drastically c...
Jon HowardJun 4, 20201 minAir pollution: a health crisis as great as Covid-19 every yearWe have seen a huge and necessary mobilisation to combat the impact of Covid-19 over recent months. Yet EVERY year in the UK alone there ...
Jon HowardJun 3, 20201 minXR ask 'how normal was normal'?Over the lockdown period we've seen many brands offering up self-serving 'thoughts and prayers' ads, usually full of empty streets and pr...
Jon HowardJun 3, 20201 minCarry On Governing or the overthrow of democracy?Let's be clear: this may seem like a bit of harmless admin, with hints of Carry On Governing about the queuing system, but it's actually ...
Jon HowardJun 2, 20202 minUK businesses ask Boris for a clean and just recovery200 of the UK's top business leaders wrote to Boris Johnson yesterday asking him to deliver a post-Covid recovery plan that is 'clean and...
Jon HowardMay 28, 20201 minThe Climate Emergency is a far greater risk than coronavirusThe World Economic Forum released their 2020 Global Risks Report in early Jan, just before Covid hit, which included this summary... It's...
Jon HowardMay 23, 20201 minWhat leadership under challenging conditions doesn't look likeLeadership requires credibility, consistency, empathy and trust if you want people to follow. So when Government science adviser Prof Nei...
Jon HowardMay 20, 20201 minU-turns in politics should be seen as a good thingClearly this should have never happened in the first place. Particularly as it came hot on the heels of Priti Patel putting the boot in o...
Jon HowardMay 20, 20201 minGive key workers a medalThough this arguably falls into the 'thoughts and prayers' camp of Covid ads I'm generally quite scathing about, I've found myself liking...