Toxic Legacies
My first paid "green" job was researching techniques for the eco-design of "large made to order products" such as oil platforms, ships and process plant...
Delivering Corporate Sustainability
In sustainability maturity model (above) that sits at the heart of The Green Executive, one of the five key requirements to create a truly green business...
Happy Birthday to Us!
It is five years to the day that I cast off the chains of an institutional career and set up Terra Infirma. I still remember...
Make it easy for your staff to be green!
At the minute I am spending the bulk of my project time engaging clients' staff members in sustainability with the aim of changing their attitudes...
Avoiding Greenwash: How Green is Green?
Greenwash is widely regarded as the greatest sin in the green business world. The term was coined by environmentalist Jay Westerveld in response to those...
What matters to us
It just seems to be unrelenting bad going-on-horrific news at the minute: the famine in Somalia, the massacre in Norway and Amy Winehouse's tragic, if...
Green Business Is Just A Fad
I'm taking a day off today, so I've handed over the reins of Green Business Confidential to special guest Hugh Jim Pakt, CEO of DirtyCorp...
When the going gets tough…
Regular readers will know that three days a week I go for a run along the Ouseburn river valley up into Jesmond Dene and back...
Storytelling
I was delighted at the weekend to be sent this amazing picture by Melvin Redeker of him reading The Green Executive while on a kayaking...
Living in the Real World…
When I first got started in this business I used to get patronised a lot. "It would be nice to [be greener]," these grey haired...