Sustainability Drivers Template
Here's a simple graphical template I developed for brainstorming sustainability drivers and internal factors - effectively a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis. Despite...
What the Paralympics can teach us about Sustainability
"Don't focus on the disability. Focus on the ability." Oscar Pistorius Paralympic Gold Medalist Olympian Photo: Erik van Leeuwen (bron: Wikipedia), Creative Commons Licence
Musings on a Green Economy pt4: What Needs Fixing And How Do We Fix It?
This is the fourth and last part of my holiday musings on a Green Economy - looking at what's stopping us achieve a sustainable economy...
Musings on a Green Economy pt3: What’s Working
Here's part 3 of my holiday musings on a green economy. Last time, we looked at two models of sustainability - eco-efficiency (doing more with...
Musings on a Green Economy pt2: Visions of Utopia
So, as discussed in pt1, we need to green our economy not only to make us environmentally sustainability (the medium-long term priority) but also to...
Musings on a Green Economy pt1: After the Crash
I'm officially on holiday for the next two weeks, but due to the size of the bump on my pregnant partner, we're holidaying at home...
Objectivity is Subjective
One of the most frustrating things about this business is the politicisation of environmental issues, and how difficult this makes getting objective analyses. Whether you...
Are product lifecycles getting longer?
Some interesting anecdotal evidence: I had to make a 'repair or upgrade?' decision on my 4 year old MacBook Pro a couple of months ago....
Weasel Words
I heard my least favourite weasel words last week: "There is a green thread running through all the decisions we make." This was justification for...
Book Review: The Zeronauts by John Elkington
John Elkington one of the sustainability field's leading pioneers and in his latest book he looks at those at the cutting edge of sustainability thinking...