Essays written from thirty years of environmental and sustainability consulting: governance, regulation, institutional failure, and the everyday gap between what a policy promises and what actually gets built, funded or enforced. Many of these pieces are openly sceptical of the industry they come from, questioning fashionable language, weak accountability, and the distance between sustainability as spoken about and sustainability as practised.

Essays that step back from the immediate and sit with a larger question, often through a conversation: with a student, a colleague, an old friend, or a figure borrowed from mythology. Less concerned with solving a problem than looking at it properly, these pieces move between philosophy, satire and plain curiosity to think about truth, accountability, meaning, and the strange logic of modern organisations.

The small, specific moments that make up an ordinary life: a flight delayed, a hotel remembered, a teacher honoured, a friendship that outlived its purpose. Not arguments or lessons, just an honest attempt to notice people and places clearly, including the writer's own ageing, uncertainty, and the identities carried along the way.