Nature and Industry in Harmony (-ish)
On Friday I took school holiday boy down to Teesside for a treat - not words that often go together, but despite having worked in...
The Curse of Mid-Table Mediocrity
In the English Premier League, it is hotting up at top and bottom - with about 6 games to go, there's just four points separating...
What does the gender pay gap say about CSR?
A very disturbing report from BusinessGreen (£) on the gender pay gap amongst CSR executives - women earn 23% less than men. To put that in...
Are You The Real Sustainability McCoy?
One of the more illogical species of spam e-mail/cold call I receive goes "outsource your thought leadership!" How on earth can I do that? Work...
Leadership is everything in CSR
I wrote The Green Executive in 2010 to provide both an inspiration and a manual for the new generation of responsible and progressive business leaders...
Embedding Sustainability OR Culture Change?
I'm busy writing up the results of a client workshop and something that has struck me is how the following two phrases are used interchangeably:...
Why I Hate IPCC Climate Change Reports
I hate the IPCC climate change reports and I'm kind of avoiding the latest one published today. Why? Well, firstly, getting told climate change impacts...
Ask Gareth: Do I need a better poster?
In this edition of Ask Gareth, I discuss the limitations of telling employees to behave in a more sustainable manner - in this case to...
Back(casting) to the Future
I spent yesterday running a sustainability strategy workshop for one of my major clients. The main challenge in getting people to think strategically is to...
Sustainability Workshops Work (or I wouldn’t run so many)
I'm off later today to Birmingham to run a client workshop to develop a sustainability strategy. As I've mused before, given the number of workshops...