Sustainability Bites: Labour Conference, UK Green Summer, Demise of GSB
Here's my hot takes on the week's big Sustainability news - join us each Friday (unless I'm away) at 10am on Facebook. Comments in the comments,...
Putting the Personal Into Sustainability
So, the Guardian Sustainable Business site is no more. I don't think I'm really going to miss it because I don't think I ever read...
Wake Up Sheeple!
I nearly choked on my Weetabix this morning when I saw the Guardian was running a splash on The Ethical Case Against Wool. "This I've got to...
Sustainability Bites: #ClimateOptimist, Cause for Optimism and Theresa May
Here's this week's edition of Sustainability Bites. I covered the Climate Optimist campaign (again), the Nature Geosciences paper on progress towards Paris Agreement commitments and...
Why #ClimateOptimist makes me want to cry
Yesterday afternoon, my Twitter feed suddenly filled with garish 80's-home-computer style graphics urging me to "Opt-in to be a #ClimateOptimist!". "'Ello?" I asked myself and...
Moving the Sustainability Conversation on…
An old friend and colleague dropped by for a cup of tea yesterday. While our respective kids decanted all the toys in the house onto...
Embedding Sustainability: Bottom Up or Top Down?
This month's Ask Gareth considers an excellent question from 'Rob' (names have been changed to protect the bashful) – should you approach Sustainability from the...
It’s a nice idea, but it will never work…
Those words were (allegedly) said by the Head of Cambridge University's Engineering Department to a young Frank Whittle when the latter presented a new idea...
I never learn!
I really have tried to ditch the habit of responding to those who are way beyond redemption when it comes to Sustainability. One such chap...
The biggest truth in Sustainability…
On Monday I spent a total of 7 hours going to and from Birmingham by train for a project close presentation to a client. This...