Green Communications: Are you speaking to the right audience?
Last Friday saw the last Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group meeting of 2015 - we were discussing green communications. I'll be posting some of the multitude...
Message to George: “Green = Growth”
I sat through Wednesday's Autumn Statement from UK Chancellor George Osborne with increasing disappointment. Normally such a set piece speech will have at the very least...
Thinking about a career in sustainability?
In this edition of Ask Gareth, I describe how I switched career into sustainability from engineering and how you can do the same, no matter...
What makes a company ‘good’?
There was an article in the Observer yesterday on Simon Anholt and his 'Good Countries Index' that was so fascinating, I immediately checked out Anholt's TEDtalk (above)....
You can’t push a circular economy
Yesterday I went to the North East Recycling Forum (NERF) Annual Conference, which as usual, punched way above its weight when it comes to speakers....
What do we need to solve climate change? A hashtag!
Yesterday the UK's Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) launched a tweetathon around the hashtag #BackClimateAction. The idea was that each hour between 9am...
Winter is coming*… or is it?
My eldest son, Harry, is doing a project at school entitled 'The Angry Earth.' Last night over dinner he suddenly shouted "I hate global...
We are all ethical – until we go to work…
Interesting piece of research doing the rounds in the media where they found that bankers were more honest when they weren't thinking about being bankers. This...
Interview with Paul Taylor, Sustainability Manager, Camira Fabrics
Here's an extract of an interview I did with Paul Taylor, Sustainability Manager of Camira Fabrics over the summer. Camira Fabrics is the biggest producer...
A neat trick to engage your boss in sustainability
An interesting thing happened at the G20 summit which took place in Australia over the weekend. Aussie premier Tony Abbott (right) is one of the...