Imagine…
We are clearly living in an energy revolution – coal companies collapsing, oil prices trundling along the bottom as production outstrips demand and a surge...
Sustainability Strategy: how deep do you dive?
I've got sustainability strategy coming out of my ears at this minute. A Green Academy webinar, a Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group meeting and a live...
We need unrealistic ambition, but realistic expectation in Sustainability
I'm a big proponent of the Big Hairy Audacious Goal in Sustainability – I've always held Interface's Mission Zero (disclosure: a Terra Infirma client) as...
Who keeps YOU on your toes on sustainability?
Last Friday we held the fourteenth meeting of the Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead. The topic was sustainability...
Cynics to the left of me, cynics to the right…
...and here I am stuck in the middle with, er, me! I have been musing this week that I often come up against two quite different,...
WHO should you engage in Sustainability?
The question I ponder in this month's Ask Gareth is exactly who you should engage in Sustainability and, no, the answer is definitely not "everybody"....
Turning ‘OR’ into ‘AND’ for sustainability
Years ago I was at a regional sustainability workshop and the facilitators made the mistake of giving each table a blank flipchart to list our...
Getting smart on smart grids
The Smart-grid has always been more talked about than done, but now the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has announced that the UK could save up to £8bn...
Peak stuff? Peak Carbon? It’s happening, folks…
A headline in yesterday's Guardian stopped me in my tracks: UK consumes far less than a decade ago – 'peak stuff' or something else? From crops...
No Leadership, No Sustainability
I'm working on two major client projects at the minute, one on sustainability strategy and one on employee engagement – which between them make up the essentials...