About Plan C

Plan C was launched in October 2009, by journalists Nick Kettles and Pat Thomas, to explore the Consciousness, Creativity, Connection, Curiosity, Choice and perhaps most importantly Context, bubbling below the surface of the environmental and climate change debate.  To read more about our objectives click here.

About Pat Thomas

Pat Thomas is the former editor of the Ecologist magazine. Her career in health and environmentalism spans more years than she sometimes cares to remember, but has included many happy moments. As an investigative journalist she has built a solid reputation as a powerful communicator with an eye on the all-important bigger picture, and for challenging a status quo that is often built on rather flimsy foundations. She has  authored/co-authored around 40 books for adults and children and in 2007 was included in the Evening Standard’s list of the 1000 most influential people in London. She’s still waiting for some actual evidence of the power of her influence, but the party was very nice. Pat trained as a transpersonal psychotherapist – a journey which continues to inform her thinking and her work – and before she became interested in  environment and health, was an entertainment journalist and broadcaster both in the UK and America. Plan C is a little labour of love and an answer to those occasional moments when she decides she’s going to give it all up and become a poet, because at least then she would be free to think a divergent way, put her intuitive powers to good use and say what she damn well liked without causing some mainstream editor to break out in a cold sweat.

About Nick Kettles

Nick Kettles is a freelance writer, broadcaster, consultant and coach with a passion for the role of storytelling in helping others flourish to their full potential.  In a world in which the media is increasingly happy to sacrifice quality for quantity of coverage, he draws on the inspiration of the crafts movement of William Morris, to view every article, book or documentary he creates as a work of art, worthy of meticulous care and attention. As a regular contribuitor to the Observer, The Times, Independent, The Ecologist, Resurgence and numerous trade journals you’ll more likely to hear about on ‘Have I Got News For You’, he has written widely about  the moral dilemmas of money and freedom of speech; the mediation of personal space in modern society and naturally, climate change and the environment.  He is co-author of Working Ethically published by AC Black, and recommended by Management Today magazine as ‘best of its kind’; author of a parable, The All-Seeing Boy and the Blue Sky of Happiness, for adults and children, to be published by Snow Lion Publications in 2011, as well as writer and co-producer of BBC Radio 4’s recent documentary ‘The Landfill Designers’.

He sees Plan C, as a vehicle for reaching the tribe of people who already instinctively know that the only revolution we need is one that happens from the inside out.  

He lives near the French Pyrenees with Priya, where their two daughters Asha and Eloa, and many animals remind them to keep close to Nature, with a light heart and open mind.  To contact Nick please email nick at newmythcreate dot com or visit www.nickkettles.co.uk