Rags & Riches – the Ethics of Charity
There's a wonderful ethics case study in the press today - a rag trade dealer has made £10m since 2008 from running the Salvation Army's...
Green White Elephants
I read in our local paper yesterday that a neighbouring council had just unveiled plans for a Green Business Incubator using £2.4million of European funding...
Getting used to new ways of working
Our green business webinar series is proving extremely popular - we've had to close the session to all but full paying customers. But one issue...
Lessons from Andy Gray & Richard Keys' own goal
In these days of Twitter, Facebook and 24hour news, reputations can be blasted out of the water in a second. Sky TV presenters Andy Gray and...
Armstrong & Miller on Climate Change
"Switch" and Sustainability
I've just finished reading the wonderful book Switch: How to change things when change is hard by Chip & Dan Heath. It's one of those...
The most depressing day of the year?
Today is the day that social scientists with too much time on their hands say is the most depressing day of the year - Xmas...
Video: The Business Case for Going Green
A short clip of yours truly talking about why business should go green. There's plenty more video on the Terra Infirma YouTube channel.
Why doesn't energy efficiency happen?
Today's blog is inspired by two tweets last night from Mel Starrs who writes the Elemental blog on green building issues: Energy efficiency *should* be...
Show, don't tell
There was an interesting story in the Daily Mail (yes, really) over the summer. Its science editor, a climate change sceptic, visited Greenland, saw the scale...