About this Blog
The Engineering Ecowarrior blog aims to bring engineering and scientific principles to bear on the causes and consequences of climate change, pollution, nature depletion, over-exploitation of resource and other challenges we face in becoming a more sustainable society. Focus areas will include reduction in carbon emissions and resilience and adaptation to deal with the inevitable consequences of climate change along with related social, economic and environmental problems and potential solutions. These focus areas will cover topics such as energy generation and storage including all forms of renewable and low carbon energy; transport including public transport, mass transit, active travel and infrastructure; the built environment including planning, construction, materials and circularity; pollution of air, land and water from various sources; and nature depletion and restoration.
Articles are meant to be accessible to all rather than a purely technical audience. Significant prior knowledge of the subject is not assumed. If, however, I have missed part of the background or context that would help with understanding, please do not hesitate to ask. There are no stupid questions.
Whilst not aimed at a technical audience, it is expected that professional engineers, architects, planners and related disciplines will find some utility in the articles, at least as a jumping off point for further investigations. The articles are built off factual or well established basis with appropriate references and extrapolations, inferences or opinions presented beyond should be clear from the article. Such opinions are the author's own, based on their experience of the subject matter. Comments of technical accuracy or interpretation are welcome.
Articles are meant to be accessible to all rather than a purely technical audience. Significant prior knowledge of the subject is not assumed. If, however, I have missed part of the background or context that would help with understanding, please do not hesitate to ask. There are no stupid questions.
Whilst not aimed at a technical audience, it is expected that professional engineers, architects, planners and related disciplines will find some utility in the articles, at least as a jumping off point for further investigations. The articles are built off factual or well established basis with appropriate references and extrapolations, inferences or opinions presented beyond should be clear from the article. Such opinions are the author's own, based on their experience of the subject matter. Comments of technical accuracy or interpretation are welcome.
Navigation
To aid navigation, pages have been created to introduce the main themes of the blog and provide a pathway to key posts. The pages are:
- Energy and Climate Change: current Renewable Energy technologies, what is coming, evaluation of new technologies and how they can mitigate climate change.
- Transportation: we all need to be somewhere sometime and it is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions as well as a critical source of pollution. There is also an important socio-economic side to sustainable transport.
- Sustainability: a catch all to cover sustainable use of resources such as water, soil and materials to make stuff, recycling, circularity, pollution and habitat conservation.
- Nature Stories: a break for hard infrastructure with shared experiences of time outdoors in nature, walking, hiking, camping, cycling or just taking photographs.
- Subject Index: a word cloud of all post tags/labels. Warning: it's big and messy and work in progress.
This blog is built on an older blog, EcoWarriorMe, which was most active in the early 2010s. It was less focussed and perhaps a little more polemic. Some posts have stood the test of time better than others but most have been retained for nostalgia. When old posts are relevant to new articles, a footnote may be added for context.
As I focus on depth and quality rather than quantity, it is likely that posts will be infrequent:fortnightly at best, but possibly monthly.
I hope you find the posts informative and thought provoking. I am open minded and welcome your thoughts or critiques, positive or negative.
I'm keen to connect with others active in this space. I had been active on Twitter (@EcoWarriorMe) but I have really gone off it since it became the x social media platform. I am newly on Blue-sky: https://bsky.app/profile/ew-me.bsky.social
Note on Artificial Intelligence Use
None of the articles are written by generative AI. The author is a human. However, AI can be a useful tool. In researching articles, Google AI mode is used to find better matches. No information from these searches has been used in articles without first reviewing the source to check for relevance and validity. This continues to show the weakness of AI search which can combine different sources which are not quite reporting the same thing. Chat GPT is used as a proofing tool, which sometimes picks up errors or apparent inconsistencies in my drafts. Feedback is taken as a suggestion only.
Responsibility for the accuracy of content and opinions in all articles rests firmly with the author and is not delegated to AI.
The Engineering Ecowarrior, September, 2026
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