Site Contents

Main Index

Latest Information, Events and Updates
What's happening in my world – events, publications and other updates to my work. If you specifically want my future events guide, click here

Contact and Background Information
Information on how to get in touch, a little on my background and past experience, and other admin-related stuff for the web site.

Articles and Papers Index
A directory of selected short articles, papers and presentations that I have written for various organisations over the last few years.

The Big Issue – Ecological Futures
If there is one term that describes my whole body of work then it would be "ecological futures" – here I explain a little of what that means.

Energy Beyond Oil
Published in 2005, this was my first book, and reputedly one of the first books on peak oil and energy futures that specifically looked at Britain.

Training, Workshops & Lectures Index
A guide to my present work, and the various services that I provide.

Ecolonomics
Paul Mobbs' irregular essay collection, examining some of the more problematic issues thrown up by his work as a consultant and author.

Work Archive Index
A collection of the most significant elements of my past work, spanning a period from the early 1990s until the present day.


For details of my various activities with the Free Range Network goto the Free Range Activism Website (FRAW).

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For details of my forthcoming/recent lectures, publications and other events see the Information, Events and Updates page.




Welcome to my website!
The evolution of my work over the last twenty years has taken me, both technically and physically, to some amazing places. I worked with campaign groups from my late teens, specialising in pollution, countryside access and engineering/electronics. After working in the engineering industry for a time, in 1991 I left and followed my vocation; Mobbs' Environmental Investigations and Research was formally established in 1992, and I have been working as a freelance consultant, writer and engineer since that time.

So what do I do? That's an interesting question: In the 1990s I could best be described as an environmental consultant; in the 2000s I could most probably be described as an author and lecturer on energy and the environment; today, following this arc of progression to where I am now, I could best be described as an ecological futurologist. What I do is not environmentalism, nor simply research into energy and resource use, and nor does it relate to the technological fetishism that characterises much of what passes for 'studies of the future' that are common today (be that social, economic or technological). Instead, my interest is the entire relationship of the human system to the global ecosystem that we inhabit, and how the biosphere's ecological limits will affect our future options for change and development.

As part of this role my work today comprises both research and lecturing in the theoretical future that the Earth's ecological limits impose upon humanity, and the practical measures we might adopt within our own lifestyles in order to move towards a different ecological relationship with the planet that supports us. As part of my work with community groups I provide a range of "off-the-peg" presentations and workshops in different issues. At the same time I accept commissions for more bespoke articles, papers, as well as more technical tuition on issues as diverse as low impact engineering, free and open source software and low impact outdoor pursuits.

To understand a little more about my work and research activities have a browse of my web site. If you'd like to get in touch you'll find the details in the contact and background information page.


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