Clear thinking to help solve environmental problems

What does “Equanimator” mean?

“Equanimity” speaks of remaining calm, or composed, in difficult situations.
So, Equanimator brings about that state - of calmness and composure - by helping to understand, and address difficult problems.
Spoiler: some eggs may be broken along the way…

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Dominic Hogg works as Equanimator

Dominic lives in Bristol in the Southwest of the United Kingdom with his wife, Rita, who is a writer and healer.

He works from a small office in Bristol. He undertakes research to underpin specific ideas, summarised in blogs. He’s also available for advisory work or consultancy on issues of a strategic nature, or on policy design.

About Dominic

On this website

Unless you’ve spent the last 50 years (or if you’re less than 50, your whole life) living under a stone, you’ll have noticed we’re facing some major environmental crises.

This website offers some thinking about what’s wrong, and how we might fix it. If anyone reading something, or watching something here finds it triggers some action, great. If I can help support that, I will try to.

Please contact me.

Latest Thoughts

The HoggBlog
Producer Responsibility for Packaging in Asia: Will It Stop the Sachets Polluting the Seas?
Producer Responsibility for Packaging in Asia: Will It Stop the Sachets Polluting the Seas?

Can extended producer responsibility (EPR) address the problem of sachets? Will it have much effect at all? This is a synthesis of a desk study reviewing EPR in India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. It makes observations regarding the schemes, and suggests where countries considering EPR might focus their attentions. Complementary measures are likely to be required to address the sachet issue.

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A Tale of Two Treaties
A Tale of Two Treaties

What do climate negotiations have to tell us about plastics? What might improve the prospects for an impactful UN Treaty on Plastics? Is there a sensible way forward?

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Achieving a Reduction in Plastics: A Role for Allowance Trading?
Achieving a Reduction in Plastics: A Role for Allowance Trading?

The Zero Draft of the UN’s Plastics Treaty talks about reducing production of plastics, and also discusses a global plastic pollution fee. The two measures aren’t explicitly linked. This blog suggests that using tradable allowances to reduce plastic production, with a floor price for their traded value, should be considered

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Options for Dealing with Plastic in the Zero Draft: Where 1 is Greater Than 2 or 3
Options for Dealing with Plastic in the Zero Draft: Where 1 is Greater Than 2 or 3

In the Zero Draft of the UN’s Treaty on Plastic Pollution, what are the Options that should be pursued? Why Option 1 is likely to be greater than Option 2.

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Keeping The Temperature Down While You’re Out Walking
Keeping The Temperature Down While You’re Out Walking

How litter picking can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Picking up litter can do more than address the problem of plastic pollution

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Should Incineration Attract Finance from Green Bonds?
Should Incineration Attract Finance from Green Bonds?

The UK Municipal Bonds Authority is issuing its first green bond. Of all the targets it could have chosen, it’s selected an incinerator. Is that a suitable choice? Is incineration ‘green’?

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Indicators and Inventories: Wasted Opportunities?
Indicators and Inventories: Wasted Opportunities?

Does the approach to reporting greenhouse gas emissions from waste management need to change?

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Why Collecting Waste is Key to Addressing the Crises of Climate Change and Plastic Pollution
Why Collecting Waste is Key to Addressing the Crises of Climate Change and Plastic Pollution

Ensuring that waste is properly collected is central to addressing the crises of climate change and plastic pollution

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