Staying one step ahead of legislation
Last Friday saw the 11th meeting of the Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group – the small group of sustainability managers from large organisations I facilitate. We...
Supply Chain Sustainability for SMEs
In this edition of Ask Gareth, I'm asked how a small, local shop can compete with larger retailers when it comes to supply chain sustainability....
Getting (Green) Things Done
Years ago, I started a blog called Green Gurus where I summarised the achievements of some of the great green thinkers. After a while I...
Sustainability is BORING!
This week I delivered a sustainability workshop for the executive team of one of my longstanding clients. Engaging at this level is tough – these...
Greetings from Bristol, European Green Capital
I'm down in Bristol for a couple of days to deliver a senior management/director sustainability workshop for one of our long-standing clients. I worked in...
For Blatter or Worse
Another week, another massive ethical scandal – this time the curtain has been drawn back on the seething pit of corruption that is Fifa with the...
The dumbest guys in the room
Last week, I finally caught "The Smartest Guys in the Room" – the story of the Enron scandal. If you have an interest in business...
Going Wild in Northumberland
I've just spent a wonderful long weekend doing exactly the same thing I've done on the spring half-term the last 2 years – camping in Wooler...
Circular Economics 101
Yesterday I was at the North East Recycling Forum in Darlington. NERF is one of the very few green events I attend as a punter as...
Who’s to blame for climate change?
global warming is like the obesity epidemic. let's stop blaming individuals and start blaming the companies whose profits depend on it. — mark haddon (@mark_haddon)...