Fear and Loathing in Sustainability
The Sustainability news falls into two polarised camps: 'climate impacts found to be worse than thought!' and 'renewable energy is booming!'. Why these might seem...
Don’t be a Sustainability Sheep
I took most of Friday off to go and help Mrs K move office at Durham University. So I decided to cycle down and, on...
Decoupling or ‘recoupling’ carbon to growth?
Had a great meeting of the Green Thinkers last night, despite the fact I had managed not to read the book I had suggested, A...
Skewing choices to Sustainability
As a foodie, I was very taken with the One Planet Plate project getting major restaurant chains to put one dish with strong sustainability credentials...
Sustainability in an age of unreason
I was very taken with Nick Cohen's column in yesterday's Observer bemoaning the rise of conspiracy-theory-driven, narrowly nationalist, identity politics around the globe. Cohen rightly...
Stephen Hawking on Sustainability
As a member of that huge club who only got a third of the way through "A Brief History of Time", the death of Stephen...
The Boxer vs Green Jujitsu
Last week I was reading a newspaper article on simmering tensions in Northern Ireland (from whence I hail) where somebody quoted The Boxer by Simon...
Why people will behave Sustainably…
There are two reasons why people will behave in a Sustainable way: Because they want to, or; Because they have to. There is no guarantee...
Wiggo, grey areas and business ethics
I am a cyclist and I use performance-enhancing drugs. Well, one drug. I will never set out on a long ride without a couple of...
The 3 biggest pitfalls in developing a Sustainability Strategy
In the latest edition of Ask Gareth, I'm asked what are the pitfalls to avoid when developing a Sustainability Strategy. I put forward the three...