Multiple Sustainability event brain dump
On Tuesday morning I was at the Clean Energy UK/Net Zero North East England conference and, after an interlude talking hedgehogs and local authority finance...
In Sustainability, if you’re cajoling people, you’re losing
Ronald Reagan got plenty of opprobrium during his time as president (remember Spitting Image's The President's Brain is Missing! sketches? If not, ask your parents),...
Who says you can’t put a heat pump in a 16th Century farmhouse? with Alex Hilton
I like people who do what 'everybody' says cannot be done. In this episode of the pod, Alex Hilton describes how he completely electrified his...
Why we couldn’t ‘reset’ Sustainability even if we wanted to
Every week or so, I see some commentator or other calling for a 'reset' on Sustainability, Net Zero, the low carbon economy or some other...
Net Zero Business Academy 2026: Registration Now Open!
Net Zero Business Academy is our set of 11 unique webinar sessions designed to help you accelerate your Sustainability programme whether in your own organisation...
The 80:20 rule and delivering Net Zero: how my thinking has evolved in the last decade
Many moons ago, I wrote a short book 'Accelerating Sustainability using the 80:20 rule'. I'm sure anybody reading this will know broadly what the 80:20...
Why your leadership must OWN Sustainability
Earlier this year, I wrote 10 Rules for Corporate Sustainability to mark the 200th edition of The Low Carbon Agenda (yes, that’s 200…). The ebook...
Individual versus system change for Sustainability
I recently took part in a debate on LinkedIn triggered by a statement by new UK Green Party leader Zack Polanski that while he follows...
Why Net Zero often seems more expensive than it really is
At the end of last week, I had another of those conversations along the lines of "how on earth do you manage without a car?"...
How we planted 100 million trees, launched a clothing brand and built a nature-based solutions platform with Derrick Emsley
Some people just don't see limits. Derrick Emsley established his first forest restoration business as teenager, then decided that a clothing brand (TenTree - ten...