Greetings from (occasionally) sunny Northumberland
I'm away with family in Budle Bay in Northumberland - just south of Lindisfarne or Holy Island. Budle Bay is part of the Lindisfarne nature...
The Sins of Your Suppliers
Here's the latest in my Green Business Confidential podcast series. It's called "The Sins of Your Suppliers" - why you must take active responsibility for...
Are we stuck in an oil price doom loop?
I'm reading The Third Industrial Revolution by Jeremy Rifkin - I'll post a review here in the next few weeks - but in the first...
Getting the message right, first time, everytime
In one of my client workshops, a manufacturing operative, straight off the factory floor and still wearing his dirty overalls, put it bluntly: “We’ve got...
Will your sustainability programme outlive you?
Looking at many of the big sustainability leaders like InterfaceFLOR, Marks & Spencer and Body Shop, it is clear that their success, initially at least,...
Sustainability Takes Teamwork
One of the frequent criticisms of climate change communications is the dissonance between the scale of the problem and the ability of individuals to make...
The Wisdom of Craig Sams, Green & Blacks
Yesterday I was delivering workshops at the Get It Sussed event in Gateshead. While for some the highlight was hanging around in the foyer with...
Are you ready for a drought?
Living in Britain is supposedly synonymous with owning an umbrella. And a cagoule. And wellies. But something strange is happening - or not happening -...
Just Do It!
If you follow the green press, you may have noticed another spat between pro-nuclear (Monbiot, Lynas) and anti-nuclear (Friends of the Earth) greens. At the...
Yes, No or Maybe?
I've often said that the litmus test for a green business is not so much what good things they do as what bad things they...