Donald Rumsfeld was right (about one thing, anyway…)
Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary under George W Bush has long been derided for this explanation of the flimsiness of the evidence for going to war...
Prioritise everything and you prioritise nothing…
The UN has just released its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - when I saw there were 17 of them, my immediate thought was "how do...
Mind the Credibility Gap
I'm continuing to plough my way through the background information from a sustainability training course I'm reviewing for a client and it's throwing up all kinds...
Will you be a carboniferous fossil in a low carbon economy?
Kodak is often held up as the archetypal extinction of the digital age. The photographic film giant invented but rejected the product - the digital...
Focus on the carrots as well as the sticks
I'm doing an expert review of some training material on sustainability over the summer to bring it up to date. The first thing I noticed was...
Reshuffling the green pack isn’t enough, Mr Cameron
Yesterday's reshuffle lead to big changes in the ranks of Conservative faces in the UK Government with the commentariat pouring over the nuances of every...
Making Sustainability Boring
I like my routine in the morning. Most mornings, when the alarm goes, I get up, get the littlest one up and change his nappy,...
We need MORE pedantry in sustainability
My name is Gareth and I'm a pedant. There. Said it. It really annoys me when a word or phrase with a particular meaning gets...
When the penny starts to drop…
In his brilliant lead article in BusinessWeek last week (being a Brit, I read the magazine a week late), Mark Hertsgaard points out a revolutionary statement...
Running through the tape…
What a smorgasbord of sport we're having at the minute - World Cup footie, Wimbledon and Le Tour De France en Yorkshire all on the...