https://2earth.github.io/website/ I'm an engineer working in Glasgow, Scotland. This personal blog is a collection of my writing on whatever I find interesting, mainly on the themes of design and sustainability. en-uk Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00 GMT https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification https://2earth.github.io/website/20260525.html Labubu is an ugly-cute snaggletoothed gremlin and an international phenomenon, but what does she tell us about loneliness, social role-play and simulation, addiction and the hyperreal? Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00 GMT https://2earth.github.io/website/20260525.html https://2earth.github.io/website/20260426.html To explore my own experiences and feelings about AI I decided to mimic the chatbot format but with myself on both sides of the screen: a self-interview to explore my reluctance to adopt, my concerns and worries. Perhaps this chat can help me understand my own complex reaction to AI? Wed, 27 Apr 2026 00:00 GMT https://2earth.github.io/website/20260426.html https://2earth.github.io/website/20260304.html Charting the evolution of magnetic memories, their strengths and weaknesses and how these incredible technologies work - with reference to the NASA Apollo Guidance Computer Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00 GMT https://2earth.github.io/website/20260304.html https://2earth.github.io/website/20260103.html Reflecting on the International Energy Agency (IEA)'s "world energy outlook 2025" I discuss some trends, causes for celebration and concerns. You could, but probably shouldn't, say; "it's heating up" Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00 GMT https://2earth.github.io/website/20260103.html https://2earth.github.io/website/20251226.html I fly through two contrasting planning initiatives in UK aerospace history in search of tangible examples of technology development being chosen by logic, without market pressures in the cockpit. Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:00 GMT https://2earth.github.io/website/20251226.html https://2earth.github.io/website/20251026.html This post features some history and future of UK pedestrian crossings, excerpts from British Standard BS 8442, ramshackle hand-cut copper circuits and Belisha Beacon halloween costumes. Welcome to hell; please drive safely. Sun, 26 Oct 2025 00:00 GMT https://2earth.github.io/website/20251026.html https://2earth.github.io/website/20250707.html Dyson exemplifies a particularly ‘techno-centric’ design approach and in this post I wanted to explore how that manifests in their product design and marketing strategy, as well as what broader impact it has on designers and the field of design itself. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00 GMT https://2earth.github.io/website/20250707.html https://2earth.github.io/website/20250601.html Join me as I learn about grain elevators, explore their design evolution and try to understand why they were such powerful metaphors for the leading European Modern architects. Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00 GMT https://2earth.github.io/website/20250601.html https://2earth.github.io/website/20250421.html With help from some amazing archival images, this post takes a trip from Lanark to Sloy and explores the significance of these pioneering 1926 stations, a year before their centennary! Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00 GMT https://2earth.github.io/website/20250421.html https://2earth.github.io/website/20250202.html What would have happened if the Celts had access to computers and specifically the Python programming language? This post answers that question with a fun web-app that lets you create and save your own Celtic knots in-browser, as well as briefly exploring the history of the Celts, knots and rope. Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:00 GMT https://2earth.github.io/website/20250202.html https://2earth.github.io/website/20241208.html Ever wondered what would happen if Santa did a life cycle assessment? Sun, 08 Dec 2024 00:00 GMT https://2earth.github.io/website/20241208.html https://2earth.github.io/website/20241103.html I recently attended the annual International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) General Meeting as a Young Professional. After a packed week of networking, workshops and talks I’ve come away with a hard-to-get insight into how the IEC works, how to get involved and what a career in international standards is like. I also know about five million new acronyms. Sun, 03 Nov 2024 00:00 GMT https://2earth.github.io/website/20241103.html https://2earth.github.io/website/20241003.html I have made a 3D model of the world’s oldest working mechanical clock, in Salisbury Cathedral. This post explores timekeeping technology through the times, the clock itself and reflects on design-for-longevity. Thu, 03 Oct 2024 00:00 GMT https://2earth.github.io/website/20241003.html https://2earth.github.io/website/20240704.html In 1933 the 31 year-old Nikolaus Pevsner, an art and architectural historian lecturing at University of Gottingen in Germany, was forced from his post and emigrated to the UK, settling in Hampstead where he would live the rest of his life. Thu, 04 Jul 2024 00:00 GMT https://2earth.github.io/website/20240704.html https://2earth.github.io/website/20230306.html Article on remanufacturing luminaires for Lighting Journal (May 2023) Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:00 GMT https://2earth.github.io/website/20230306.html https://2earth.github.io/website/20220921.html Article building the case for a code of practice for the remanufacture of luminaires, for arc magazine issue 130. Wed, 21 Sep 2022 00:00 GMT https://2earth.github.io/website/20220921.html https://2earth.github.io/website/20220301.html Article introducing remanufacturing in the lighting industry, for arc magazine issue 126. Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:00 GMT https://2earth.github.io/website/20220301.html https://2earth.github.io/website/20200126.html Exploring global energy production and demand trends and exploring possible geopolitical outcomes. Sun, 26 Jan 2020 00:00 GMT https://2earth.github.io/website/20200126.html https://2earth.github.io/website/20200122.html Exploring heat networks, heat networks and the practicalities. Wed, 22 Jan 2020 00:00 GMT https://2earth.github.io/website/20200122.html https://2earth.github.io/website/20200106.html Looking at the growing importance of Lithium as a key material used in the production of batteries for energy storage and EVs, and the state of the supplychain - in particular the political turmoil in Bolivia, a major exporter. Mon, 06 Jan 2020 00:00 GMT https://2earth.github.io/website/20200106.html https://2earth.github.io/website/20190920.html Produced as part of my "Think Slow Act Fast" project, I wrote and personally printed and bound this into a pamphlet and handed it out at various events, including the 2019 Climate Strikes (20th - 27th September 2019). Fri, 20 Sep 2019 00:00 GMT https://2earth.github.io/website/20190920.html https://2earth.github.io/website/20190122.html A short essay on the human and environmental costs associated with the textile industry under capitalism. Tue, 22 Jan 2019 00:00 GMT https://2earth.github.io/website/20190122.html https://2earth.github.io/website/20171004.html Reflecting on usability in product design, focusing on the example of bathroom showers. Wed, 04 Oct 2017 00:00 GMT https://2earth.github.io/website/20171004.html