Sustainability Leadership on the Rise, despite Trump
There hasn't been much coverage of President Macron's One Planet Summit on Tuesday, probably because nothing went wrong. The event was to mark the second...
A little local recycling, all for a good cause!
Yesterday, my family held its third annual charity yard sale, in aid of WaterAid. The genesis of this tradition came from the boys announcing four...
More rubbish about the SDGs
There's a constant stream of articles on my social media feeds about the 'failure' of corporates to engage with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). One...
BETA: Customer Engagement for Sustainability Model
Next week's Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group meeting is going to consider how to engage customers in Sustainability. This is a huge issue as the bulk...
Most influential Sustainability books for me
I saw a post on LinkedIn yesterday asking people for their top 5 Sustainability books. I quoted the following five as the most influential in...
The need for ‘outrageous ambition’ on Sustainability
I spent yesterday morning at the always-excellent North East Recycling Forum annual conference. The conference chair, the ever-ebullient Mark Shayler of APE, challenged us in...
OK, so I was wrong on the plastic bag tax
Regular readers will know that I have been somewhat dismissive of the plastic bag tax (to put it mildly...) Well, hands up, I was wrong....
Save the world, today!
This morning I was out plodding around my usual Monday run route when I spotted a couple of plastic packing straps on the pavement just...
A Green Budget, Phil?
It's Budget day here in the UK and everybody, well a few of us, are waiting to see what Chancellor Philip Hammond will pull out of...
Michael Gove, Eco-warrior
The environmental movement let out a groan of exasperation when Michael Gove took over the reins as UK Environment Minister earlier this year. A long...