Earlier this year my office asked Sustainable Energy Now to examine the potential of batteries and rooftop solar to speed up WA’s energy transition. Here’s a good summary of the results. reneweconomy.com.au/transmission-b…

Good to see ABC shine on a light on the WA Government walking away from their election promises to double canopy cover and plant a million trees. Changing definitions and altering maps won’t give Perth the canopy it needs, that requires planting trees. abc.net.au/news/2025-10-1…

🚴‍♀️ Paris saw a +240% surge in cycling (2018–2023) — proof that bold mobility policy works. Safe lanes, secure parking & better design turned bikes from niche to normal. When cities invest, people ride. #Cycling #UrbanMobility #Paris

A tipping point? A study in the journal Nature shows that Australia’s tropical rainforests are no longer sucking carbon from the atmosphere but are instead emitting carbon because more trees are dying due to extreme heat nature.com/articles/s4158…

At the 2025 state election WA Labor committed to doubling Perth’s terribly low tree canopy by 2040. A promise they seem to have sadly walked away from.

I wonder how many people in Utrecht have seen the transformation from a sunken freeway to a canal and actually wanted the freeway back?

A thought-provoking reframing of AUKUS as a Perth military base.

Excellent op-ed by Bill Hare Australians have an obvious interest in action against global warming. Focusing on gas instead of renewables for the energy transition risks sabotaging our future” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“some of the worst examples of badly designed urban sprawl within the greater Perth metro area…Not only are these projects largely treeless, hot and totally car dependent , but poor planning has led to significant flooding” watoday.com.au/national/weste…

For those of you interested in electrification's what, how and why, this toolkit is a great resource. gettingoffgastoolkit.com

Over the next few weeks in the WA Parliament the WA Government will attempt to rush through a State Development Bill that will give the Premier extraordinary power to go around existing legislation for any project he thinks is a priority. It’s overreach watoday.com.au/politics/weste…

My op ed in The West today on how collaboration with local governments and communities is going to be the most effective way of delivering transit oriented developments (TODs). Perth is calling out for density done well and there’s local governments ready to go.

Good solutions on addressing carmageddon in Freo with clean freight off peak. abc.net.au/news/2025-12-2…