Author Archives: Simone Gristwood

Reading Group: 6 May 2014

Posted on April 7, 2014

A group of ten DEMANDers discussed Habits, routines and temporalities of consumption: From individual behaviours to the reproduction of everyday practices by Dale Southerton (Time & Society 2013 22: 335-355). (more…)

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Talk: The Future of Transport Policy: Was Einstein Right? Greg Marsden

Posted on March 24, 2014

Professor Greg Marsden, Inaugural Lecture, University of Leeds: 18 March 2014 Read the transcript of the lecture and see further details about the event here.

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Reading Group: 2 April 2014

Posted on March 19, 2014

Jan, Mike A., Joe, Nicola and Elizabeth – Richard in a noisy café for a few moments. Jan used the reading (Military emissions, armed conflicts, border changes and the Kyoto Protocol by Axel Michaelowa & Tobias Koch) (more…)

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Unsustainable practices: Why electric cars are a failure of ambition

Posted on March 5, 2014

By Nicola Spurling, Lancaster University and Dan Welch, University of Manchester Originally published on Talking Climate  (more…)

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The need for electricity: Electricity as a need. Neil Simcock

Posted on February 19, 2014

Neil talked about the need for electricity. He approached the topic from three angles, first noticing that in much public debate/media concepts of need and demand are used interchangeably: if electricity is called for (demanded), then it must be needed. Hence the ‘need’ to keep the lights on, etc. This indicates that in popular and policy discourse there is no serious discussion of need,…

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