Greenwash of the Week
You would have to have a very strange existence if your whole footprint was "greatly reduced" and all your waste was eradicated simply by changing from...
Can Big Data & AI deliver Sustainability?
The latest edition of Ask Gareth considers how the hot topics of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence can interact with the Sustainability Agenda. Is the hype...
Interaction – the spice of Sustainability
Yesterday the family headed up to the National Trust property of Wallington Hall in Northumberland – me on my bike, the rest by car. We've been...
Why I’m an Eco-optimist
There's an old joke: An optimist says the glass is half full, A pessimist says the glass if half empty, An engineer says the glass...
Clean power: past and future
We've just had a wonderful Bank Holiday weekend chez Kane - taking in art, cyclocross, but most impressively, the Tall Ships Regatta at Blyth Northumberland. The...
Virtue Signalling: an insidious form of greenwash
I've always hated those pious "Save the planet: don't print this e-mail" statements in people's e-mail signature blocks. Why? Because it is blatant 'virtue signalling'...
Do you want Sustainability or not? Lessons from the Olympics
The story has been told many times, but it's a good one if you're a Brit. Thoroughly embarrassed by GB's pathetic single-gold-medal showing at the...
There’s no talking to some people (about the environment)
Two things made me smile this week. First, Prof Brian Cox's face as he realised what level of idiocy he was up against when debating...
Stealth Sustainability?
As a British cycling fan, I've been throughly enjoying the team's continuing success in the Olympic velodrome. One of the remarkable characters is sprinter Jason...
Should you abolish your Sustainability Department?
The latest edition of Ask Gareth considers a rather existential question for sustainability practitioners – should corporations get rid of their Sustainability Department? My answer is "yes,...