Why the 80/20 Rule will get us to sustainability faster
Before Christmas, my fifth book, Accelerating Sustainability using the 80/20 Rule, was published. I'm really excited about it as it sets out a manifesto for...
The Rules of the Game – but whose rules?
At the weekend I finished reading The Secret Race by Tyler Hamilton - the coruscating inside story of the doping scandal that rocked the cycling...
The easy road to employee engagement for sustainability
OK, cards on the table time. I am a very frustrated man. Frustrated because employee engagement/behavioural change is critically important; Frustrated because everybody says that...
Nurse your employee engagement with combined benefits
As part of a piece of work for one of our NHS clients, I've been working my way through the organisation's latest sustainability strategy documents. I...
Why I won’t be applying to be a Chartered Environmentalist
The IMechE is 'relaunching' (always a worrying phrase) their CEnv, or Chartered Environmentalist, qualification this week in response to "spectacular growth" in clean tech, renewable...
Do you really want to make sustainability everybody’s responsibility?
Interesting piece in Guardian Sustainable Business yesterday, predicting that 2015 would be the year when businesses made sustainability part of everybody's job description. On first...
Cut the Green Crap!
There's far too much green crap around. I'm not talking about the clean energy subsidies that PM David Cameron was (allegedly) referring to using these words....
Here’s to a sustainable 2015!
Happy New Year everyone! It's the traditional time to set ourselves goals for the year ahead (why we pick the dark, dank days of January...
'Tis the Season…
Well, that's just about it from me for 2011, so all that's left is to thank all our readers over the last twelve months and...
A Festive Fifteen For You
After an incredibly hectic November and early December - I interacted with some 750 individuals over this time - things are finally winding down here...