Green Academy October Sessions
As usual, we will be holding two Green Academy on-line sessions on 5 Oct 2011. Each session lasts for one hour. You need access to...
Green Business Confidential: It's The Law!
Here's the latest in my Green Business Confidential podcast series. It's called "It's the Law" and it is all about our attitude to legislation. Or,...
Promises don't count
Yesterday I opened my Sunday supplement to find a double page ad featuring these two quite incredible looking BMW electric cars. "Wow!" I thought, until...
Closing the Loop – from Outputs to Inputs
Traditionally we have worried about what comes out of our economy - solid wastes, persistent toxins, greenhouse gases, acid rain, ozone and so on. But increasingly focus...
Are You Suffering from Institutional Inertia?
Why is culture change such a big issue when dealing with sustainability? After all, personal change can be quite easy. Some people claim it takes...
Greening the bean counters
I usually start off my seminars by asking delegates why their company should go green (try it - much more effective than you telling them...
Is this the worst green marketing slogan ever?
I spotted this billboard for a Hi-tec walking boot a few months ago and I used it on Wednesday's Green Marketing webinar as an example...
The problem with CSR standards
The mining giant Glencore has just released a corporate responsibility report as it promised when it listed on the London Stock Exchange earlier this year....
Have you got what it takes?
The Green Executive was conceived and written as a manual for the new breed of senior businesspeople who want to guide their organisation to an...
Why is it so difficult?
I had lunch on Monday with a cousin of mine who runs a medium size farm. For a long time he has been interested in...