Kids get it, why don’t adults?
Last week I had one of the more exacting challenges of my professional career - explaining the circular economy (but not using that phrase, natch)...
Supply Chain Secrets of the Sustainability Masterminds
Tuesday saw the fourth meeting of our Corporate Sustainability Mastermind (CoSM) Group. This time we went for a rural location - the Crown Hotel, Wetheral,...
Words Matter: What “The Bedroom Tax” can teach us about selling sustainability
You can win or lose an argument on the words you choose to use. Take the recent furore over changes to UK housing benefits. The...
Book Review – The Green Book: New Directions For Liberals in Government
I've been a member of the UK's third political party, the Liberal Democrats, for the best part of a decade - and an elected Councillor...
Sustainability Stories or Statistics?
How many times have you sat through a sustainability presentation that consists of graph after graph, table of data after table of data. And...
The New Mindset
How to Unblock Global Progress on Climate Change
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was set up at the Earth Summit in 1992. That's 21 years ago and where are...
Green Business Confidential: Lighten Up
Here's the latest in my Green Business Confidential podcast series. It's called "Lighten Up". Make sure you listen to the end... Or, you can download...
What would you ban, if you could?
"Hurrah!", shouted the green world, as the neonicotinoid pesticides blamed by everybody (except their producers and their political allies) for the worrying decline in bee...
Is business evil?
Very amusing column from Lucy Mangan in the Guardian at the weekend where a trip to her local independent bookshop threatened to tempt her from...