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Monday, 12 October 2009
Forthcoming new arrivals...
I'm taking break from doing the final proof edits on The Three Secrets of Green Business. This is extraordinarily tedious, but I have found one big clanger so it is necessary. Despite the tedium, I'm getting really excited. I'm organising a launch event in January - more details when I have them. In the meantime, the Green Executive is really starting to shape up and I hope to get the first draft to the publisher early in the new year.Also coming soon is the new branding, website and Low Carbon Agenda. Just the final tweaks to go, but looking very good indeed.
Part of me worries that all this excitement is displacement activity to distract me from yet another impending new arrival. My second child is due on 1 November, although his mother's maternal vibe is that this one could be early. So if this blog suddenly goes quiet, it probably means I'm up to my elbows in nappies again and/or taking no 1 son to the park. I intend to take two weeks semi-paternity leave - keeping things tapping along but not running any workshops or intensive pieces of work.
It's all so exciting!
Labels: holiday, low carbon agenda, terra infirma, three secrets of green business
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Monday, 17 August 2009
Back in the Saddle!
Just back in Newcastle after a wonderful break in Askrigg in the Yorkshire Dales - walking, cycling and lazing about in the sun (honest!) reading and drinking coffee. And the local beer. I got a chance to catch up on a few back issues of ENDS, finished EF Schumacher's classic Small is Beautiful and started on the works of the deep ecology founder Arne Naess - both of which will turn up on Green Gurus soon.
One of our walks was around the dramatic limestone pavements and cliffs of Malham Cove (see pic) and brought an important issue home to me. First we walked to the still waters of Malham Tarn then along a stream leading from it until the water simply disappeared into unseen subterranean tunnels. We then followed the dry stream bed down to the top of the cliffs where the stream obviously once spilled over the top in a spectacular waterfall. When you climb down, a river appears from the base of the cliffs. Given that we'd been following the route of the original stream, you would think that this was it simply re-emerging from its underground course, but it isn't! Somewhere in the unexplored depths of the limestone, that stream of water crosses another without ever joining forces. The complexity of such hydrogeological systems is one reason why groundwater is the most protected natural resource. Pollution and the impacts of over-extraction are extremely difficult to 'fix'. This in turn is a factor the heavily populated South East of England has a water shortage, whereas the North, which depends on surface water reservoirs and is much less populated isn't.
Labels: groundwater, holiday, hydrogeology
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Saturday, 1 August 2009
We are Three!
Terra Infirma is celebrating its third birthday today! In those three years, we've worked with hundreds of businesses and public sector organisations ranging from the third biggest organisation in the world (the UK's National Health Service) to micro-businesses and solo entrepreneurs. While I'd be lying if I said the recession hadn't made things frustrating sometimes, we're finding there are plenty of people out there who realise that sustainability is the future.
And there's an exciting and challenging year ahead. We're bringing new clients and partners on board as we speak, the Three Secrets of Green Business is out in December and I'm planning to have the manuscript of book#2 (working title "The Green Executive") finished by this time next year. We also have plenty of other exciting ideas working their way towards fruition.
I'm off on holiday to the (hopefully) sunny Yorkshire Dales for a couple of weeks, so things will go a bit quiet on the blogging front. If you want more to read in the meantime, check out Green Gurus which now features the godmother of the modern environmental movement, Rachel Carson. I'm taking books by EF Schumacher, Arne Naess and David Pearce away with me, so they're in the pipeline along with economist Herman Daly and climatologist James Hansen. And don't forget, there's always the back issues of "The Low Carbon Agenda"...
Wishing you a great holiday period, back soon,
Gareth
Labels: green gurus, holiday, terra infirma, three secrets of green business
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Saturday, 17 May 2008
A short intermission...
... while I spend a week in Scotland recharging my own batteries. Hints, tips and news will return when I do!Labels: holiday
# posted by Gareth Kane : 06:17
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A highly accessible, practical guide to those who want to introduce sustainability into their business or organization quickly and effectively.
