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Remaining Questions From the Sandilands Croydon Tram Crash
Six and a half years after the Sandilands Croydon tram crash, the victims and families of the seven people who died finally received a measure of…
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Aksel Lund Svindal
From Skier to Investor - Prepare for Impact!
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Free solo and free solar - with Alex Honnold
Episode 83 of Cleaning Up with Michael Liebreich - Alex Honnold "Free Solar" - was such an extraordinary conversation.
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Albertville Olympics — 30 years on
On the day of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, some thoughts.
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Trade, hydrogen and…COP26!
COP26 Newsletter
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I once had an argument with Prince Philip.
It was November 2016, at a reception to mark the first year of the Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy, an initiative aimed at preserving and restoring…
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Be the change you want to see in your models
Last week, a friend of mine sent me a quotation by St Augustine, a North African bishop who lived from 354 to 430 AD: “Bad times, hard times - this is…
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Astongate - a progress update
Early in December, the Interweb (or the parts I frequent) erupted in a storm of outrage and laughter when I caught Aston Martin and Robert Bosch using a…
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Astongate: fake emission figures, an embattled carmaker and a sock puppet PR company
You may have seen the news story last week about a new report purporting to show that it takes 50,000 miles before an EV's emissions beat those of a…
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Global Warming fails to heat up Harvard Business School
The yearbook photos from my first and second years at Harvard Business School (1988 and 1989).
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January 2020 Newsletter: A Decade Closes, a Decade Begins
Here we are in the first weeks of a new decade, and I wanted to give you an update.
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Project Bo: Saving lives in Sierra Leone with Solar, Batteries and Twitter
In November 2017, browsing my Twitter timeline in the cab on the way to an industry dinner, I came across a Tweet that hit me like a punch in the guts:
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