Green Thread or Spinning a Yarn?
A while a go I mentioned an organisation which had ditched its environmental commitments and how it had fallen back from front runner to also...
Is Green Jujitsu unethical?
The popular sustainability website 2degrees occasionally reposts blogs from here. One, on using Green Jujitsu to deal with climate sceptics, really rubbed an academic up...
Future Sustainability Strategy with the Sustainability Masterminds
What's the best approach to developing a sustainability strategy? What should be in and what should you leave out? What goals and objectives should you...
Copy This! Kyocera’s CSR day in Manchester
Yesterday I was at Kyocera's CSR day in their brand new Manchester offices, featuring some great guest speakers from Green Alliance and Forum for the...
The Stuff of (Sustainability) Champions
So 77 years of "why can't we (male) Brits win Wimbledon?" is over as Andy Murray takes the legendary trophy. While I'm euphoric for the...
Stand Up and Lead, Godammit!
Here's the latest in the Green Business Confidential podcast series. It's called "Stand Up and Lead Godammit!" Or, you can download it here and listen...
And the winner is… the power of competition for sustainability
I'm writing this just before I catch the train to London, tux in tow, for the big BusinessGreen Leader awards tonight - Terra Infirma Ltd...
Is there a Hype Cycle for Clean Tech?
I was at an European Parliament event on low carbon vehicles last Friday at the new Gateshead College campus adjacent to the Nissan factory. It...
The Lesson from the Green Deal…
Yesterday, the UK Government released initial figures on the uptake of its flagship Green Deal programme. This was developed to help homeowners retrofit energy efficiency...
Obama steps up on climate change (at last)
It was the big speech everyone concerned with climate change was waiting for. Barack Obama, leader of the world's biggest economy and second biggest carbon...