By bike along the Western Front of World War 1
The story of my 1500 kilometre bike ride along the Western Front of World War 1, an amazing 3-week journey through landscape and history
Towards clean household energy in Africa: experience from the front line in Kenya
Before Coronavirus struck in March 2020, Kenya was pioneering a radical new approach to reducing deaths from household air pollution by training community health workers to inform people about the dangers of traditional polluting fuels and encourage them to switch to...
Kimball Chen: champion of clean cooking fuel for the world’s poor
Cooking should not kill – but it does. It is a sobering fact that more than two million children and adults die prematurely every year from air pollution in their homes. This unhealthy air results from cooking with wood, charcoal, animal dung and kerosene. Over...
Joining the Crazy Club at 60 – three ascents of Mt Ventoux in one day for an African charity
Cycling up the legendary Mt Ventoux three times in one day in your sixties may seem ambitious, unwise even. But with adequate preparation it can be enjoyable and very rewarding.
This article was published on-line by Cycling Plus in April 2020
Exploring Great War History by Bike: The Lost Legacy for Peace of Jean Jaurès
On the wall of a modest café in Montmartre, a plaque marks what could lay claim to being among the most consequential events of the early 20th Century. It states, simply: ‘Here, on 31st July 1914, Jean Jaurès was assassinated’. By firing his shots through the window...
