Sustainability Reawakens
I'm very aware my blogging has reduced to a trickle in recent weeks – my excuse is that everything has ramped up again except the...
Aaaaaagh! The Zombie Energy Myths Rise Again
Like a big chunk of the population, my time, energy and sanity are currently being stretched to breaking point by the increasing expectations of clients...
Built it, and the carbon will come
I’m writing this in the modern extension of a house which is 125 years old today, more or less (the pic shows the extension going...
On tribalism, culture wars and Sustainability
Following the defenestration of the statue of slave trader Edward Coulson in Bristol last week, a ‘topple the racists’ website appeared listing other statues around...
Winners and losers in Sustainability
Last week, I got a complaint from someone on the West Coast of the USA that our Green Academy Supply Chain edition was at 6am...
On yer bike…
Last week I wandered over to my local bike shop to buy a few new inner tubes. As I waited in the socially distanced queue,...
Being seen to do the right thing…
British politics has been aflame for the last few days following the revelation that the Prime Minister’s ‘Special Advisor’ (read Chief of Staff) Dominic Cummings,...
The “Try Before You Buy” Approach to Sustainability
I'm delighted that my adopted home town of Newcastle upon Tyne is going to be the latest City in the world to get 'pop-up' cycle...
Sustainability messaging lessons from the Conga of Doom
I actually feel a wee bit sorry for the poor soul who organised the now-infamous VE Day conga (above). Yes, they broke the rules and...
Will Sustainability be the ‘new normal’ post-pandemic?
There's an old saying 'don't let a crisis go to waste' and there are plenty of voices calling for the current disruption to be used...