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Adding friction to unsustainable behaviour

9th December 2015

Regular readers will know I'm a bit sceptical about the plastic bag tax – mainly because it's aimed at a minor environmental impact rather than...

Raising Cash for Solar Aid

7th December 2015

I'm exhausted this morning after doing the grunt work for my sons' yard sale yesterday. Every year the boys raise cash for Solar Aid, but...

The myth of bottom-up sustainability

4th December 2015

I couldn't have picked a better antidote to this dismal autumn than to spend 24 hours with the Interface Europe sustainability ambassadors in Scherpenzeel, Netherlands. Hearing...

Nobody does it better

2nd December 2015

I'm in Scherpenzeel in the middle of the Netherlands for one particular reason: it's the base of Interface's European operations and the location for the company's Mission...

Hopes for Paris

30th November 2015

Yesterday, I threw off my cynicism about such things and went on the Climate March in Newcastle, taking the little one with me (right). All...

Sustainable Stupidity

27th November 2015

I sometimes read stuff on-line that makes me go all "why oh why oh why?" This week it was yet another article from an employee...

Who is the keystone of your sustainability programme?

25th November 2015

The keystone of an arch is the one which completes it and lets the arch bear weight. Whether in a structural engineering sense it is...

The last thing the planet needs is conspiracy theories

23rd November 2015

I've had it up to here (holds hand above head) with climate conspiracy theories. First it was claims that the group behind the Paris attacks...

Cast off the recycling blinkers!

18th November 2015

Yesterday I was at the North East Recycling Forum annual conference, which believe it or not is one of the very few events I attend...

When bad things happen…

16th November 2015

Checking social media early on Saturday morning, I started to get that dread feeling that something terrible had happened overnight. Flicking up the news, the...

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