Sustainability: do the same old, get the same old…
This week I read an article on employee engagement for Sustainability on a well-known eco-business website (I won't bother linking to protect the guilty), wondering...
Activate your sustainability programme!
At last week's Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group, I (re)used my 'monster truck' template (above). The analogy is that we are in the truck, transversing the...
How to get the most from a Sustainability Expert
We had another great Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group meeting yesterday, focussing on the supply chain (full summary next week). Almost every meeting ends up discussing...
Sustainability: Engineering in the Real World
Yesterday I was facilitating a workshop for the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Durham University. The purpose was to find ways to further embed Sustainability...
Bradley Wiggins and the Spirit of the Law
There can't have been a more disconsolate figure than that of Bradley Wiggins, almost certainly the greatest cyclist of our generation, on the BBC yesterday...
Getting the sustainability message through
What makes you stop in the street and stare? Regular readers will know I'm (more than) a bit obsessive about road cycling. I will walk...
Blinkered views block the road to Sustainability
George Osborne may have been unceremoniously booted out of the UK Treasury by incoming PM Theresa May, but one of his legacies will live with...
Do you have a Sustainability Strategy? Really?
What is a Sustainability Strategy? Is it just a document containing all your targets? Is it something to show your stakeholders? Is it a baseline...
Embedding Sustainability is a Banker
Fascinating article in this week's Economist, traditionally no friend of sustainability, about investing in low carbon firms. They quote research by BlackRock who found that...
Pick your climate gurus with care
My regular paper is The Guardian, somewhat under sufferance ever since my previous favourite The Independent started to shrink in size and quality about a decade...