It has been a long time since I last posted. One of the main reasons for this is that as soon as I returned to Scotland, I immediately had to start preparing for a week-long intensive course on social responsibility with engineers, which has been extremely rewarding but very hard going for me, let alone… Read More The next generation of coastal citizens
The sun is starting to hit the side of the World City Towers, which means it’s the end of the day and very nearly the end of this campaign of fieldwork in Japan. Tomorrow I fly back to Aberdeen via Frankfurt, and then will begin the task of trying to analyse the data around teaching… Read More Finishing up
Kasai Rinkai Park is one of my very favourite places in Tokyo. Out in the east of the city, on the way to Disneyland and Chiba commuter city, planes whine and wobble overhead as they make their final approaches to Haneda Airport, and big ships wait out in the bay for favourable tides to dock.… Read More Rinkai Park
I am a great believer in interdisciplinarity. Energy and environmental change are complex issues, and lots of ideas and specialisations need to pull together to resolve many of the challenges our society is facing. This, I remind myself, is why I am currently standing in the middle of a building site staring into what appears… Read More Reflections on a visit to the Tomakomai CCS project
Dr Leslie Mabon 