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In Sustainability, “Everybody’s Responsibility” = “Nobody’s Responsibility”

8th April 2016

As regular readers, will know, as well as my day job as sustainability consultant/pontificator, I have another day job which fits round it of local...

Sustainability & Freedom

4th April 2016

Last Tuesday, I got on my bike for the first time since I dislocated my finger in early January (it's been a very long haul),...

The British Steel Industry & the Carbon Leakage Conundrum

31st March 2016

One of the more notorious comments from UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne came during his speech at the 2011 Conservative Party conference: "We're...

Can we save the planet?

28th March 2016

Over the Easter weekend we made one of our regular pilgrimages to Washington Wildfowl & Wetland Trust. Added to the exciting wild birds (we saw...

Inside the Sustainability Mastermind Group

23rd March 2016

If you've ever wondered how our Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group operates, here are a few pics from the last meeting at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. The...

Imagine…

21st March 2016

We are clearly living in an energy revolution – coal companies collapsing, oil prices trundling along the bottom as production outstrips demand and a surge...

Sustainability Strategy: how deep do you dive?

18th March 2016

I've got sustainability strategy coming out of my ears at this minute. A Green Academy webinar, a Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group meeting and a live...

We need unrealistic ambition, but realistic expectation in Sustainability

16th March 2016

I'm a big proponent of the Big Hairy Audacious Goal in Sustainability – I've always held Interface's Mission Zero (disclosure: a Terra Infirma client) as...

Who keeps YOU on your toes on sustainability?

14th March 2016

Last Friday we held the fourteenth meeting of the Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead. The topic was sustainability...

Cynics to the left of me, cynics to the right…

11th March 2016

...and here I am stuck in the middle with, er, me! I have been musing this week that I often come up against two quite different,...

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