The Biggest Barrier to Sustainability
Here's the latest in my Green Business Confidential podcast series. It's called "The Biggest Barrier to Sustainability" and you'll have to listen to find out...
Why Rio+20 and the G20 should be one meeting
Two big global jamborees at the same time: Rio+20 trying save the planet and the G20 in Mexico trying to save the global economy. Really...
Why the #EndFossilFuelSubsidies campaign is so clever
Robert Redford:"We should not be subsidizing the destruction of our planet" huff.to/L8J85X #endfossilfuelsubsidies — HuffPost Green (@HuffPostGreen) June 18, 2012 For over 24 hour...
From Total Football to Total Sustainability
Oh, how the mighty fall! The Dutch national football team limped out of Euro 2012 last night without a point to their name. I was disappointed...
Why Sustainability Programmes Fail
I diagnose the most common causes of failure of sustainability programmes as: No leadership: leadership is critical to any successful corporate transformation programme and, given...
Are we on the cusp of Energy 2.0?
The Facebook/Twitter/Flickr/YouTube/Wordpress revolution of the last 5-7 years has famously been dubbed Web 2.0. Web 1.0 was like a huge electronic catalogue of information to...
Compost, Natural Cycles and the Circular Economy
Here's a grubby little secret - shhh - don't tell anyone - but I'm a closet compost fanatic. At last count I operate at least...
Book Review: Mad Like Tesla by Tyler Hamilton
As soon as I walked into the meeting room, I knew I had made a mistake. The huge table was at least 6 inches deep...
Keep Britain Untidy?
Spent Sunday morning down at "our" allotment - it is officially "hers", but I'm slowly getting dragged in more and more - particularly as "she"...
Legislation changes. It’s the law!
There's an old(ish) tech saying "Never buy version 1.0 of anything." The thinking is that the first version of anything hasn't been 'battle hardened' by use...