If you’ve come to be reading this, you will probably be doing so in the expectation that I will be writing about climate change, The Carbon Buddy Manual, and propagation. So, I need to ask you to stick with me while I appear to wander off target initially. Be assured, I’ll get there in the end!

Before I officially became classified as “elderly” I used to ply my profession as an organisational psychologist. Given that most people rarely if ever come across the breed, I’m often asked “what on earth did you actually DO”. I reply cryptically with something like “I made the invisible visible”. What I mean by this is that it is not always obvious why things are not working. All I and my clients knew was that the organisation, or team, or boss and staff member were not functioning effectively. Worse, they couldn’t seem to find a way to improve things. They were stuck.

I am chuffed to have been “interviewed remotely” by Sallie Eden about The Carbon Buddy Manual. Sallie has chalked up a wide range of life experience, from farming and the environment, to the corridors of power in Whitehall and Brussels, and chairing charities and editorial boards. She brings all this experience to bear in her current journalistic writing which includes regular book reviews.

Here is what Sallie had to say about The Carbon Buddy Project.