Work To Your Strengths
Here's the latest in the Green Business Confidential podcast series. It's called "Work To Your Strengths" - a plea to focus your sustainability efforts on...
Red Tape or Green Light?
UK PM David Cameron gave a speech to the Federation of Small Business (FSB) on Monday where he lauded the Government's drive to cut regulation....
Reasons to be cheerful (parts 1-327)
We can be a gloomy lot, us environmentalists - always on the verge of despair. But, hold on a minute... Renewable energy produced a record...
Let’s inspire the next generation!
I'm starting to feel my age. Throughout my career I've always been younger than average, whether in employment, in management, in local politics, in self-employment....
Green Thread = Green Wash
This month I had to comment publicly on an important local strategy which boasted about having "a green thread" running its policies. Yesterday, someone complimented...
Want to accelerate sustainability? Then take your foot off the brake!
There's an Chinese proverb which goes: The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is today. In other...
The Answer is ‘Run A Workshop’ – What Was The Question?
When coaching a number of sustainability practitioners before Christmas, I noticed that, whatever the question they asked me, my immediate impulse was to answer "run...
The Ultimate Career Goal of Every Sustainability Practitioner…
...should be to make ourselves redundant. Unfortunately I don't think it's going to happen in my lifetime, but it is the goal we should always...
Shout sustainability from the rooftops or keep mum?
The first green neologism I have come across in 2014 is 'green hush'. If greenwash is exaggerating environmental performance then green hush is playing it...
More Strategy Secrets of the Sustainability Masterminds
On Tuesday we had the sixth meeting of the Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group (CoSM) - the small group of senior sustainability executives from large organisations...