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How Is ISO14001 Changing? Interview with Marek Bidwell

3rd October 2014

In this very special edition of Ask Gareth, I get to ask the questions! I have been asked about the forthcoming changes to ISO14001, and to...

California is banning plastic bags. Big Deal.

1st October 2014

Have you read the headlines in the press that the State of California is going to ban single use plastic bags in large supermarkets? Well, sound the...

Let’s banish the inner priesthood of sustainability

29th September 2014

Like it or not, the human race has a tendency towards tribalism - we can see that in a long history of brutal ethnic wars...

Sustainability: It’s not us against them

26th September 2014

I've been blogging a lot about the politics of sustainability recently. As a part-time politician myself, I know that politics should be a battle of...

David Cameron shows some leg on climate change (at long last)

24th September 2014

UK Prime Minister David Cameron finally gave a speech on climate change yesterday at the UN's Climate Summit in New York. We've been waiting a...

Evidence Rules!

22nd September 2014

A few days ago I postulated 5 rules of the new vein of pragmatic environmentalist. Number 2 was "Evidence Rules". Like many, I have spent...

Can you generate Scottish Referendum levels of enthusiasm for sustainability?

19th September 2014

So it's the morning after the night before and, as broadly expected, Scotland voted to stay in the UK with the rest of us. But...

The old sustainability vs growth chestnut gets another roasting

17th September 2014

Two interesting interventions caught my eye this week: First of all we had Naomi Klein, of No Logo fame, wading into the climate change debate...

Everybody is an Environmentalist

15th September 2014

Last week, I posited five rules for Pragmatic Environmentalism. Over the next couple of weeks I'm going to expand on/refine this a little to explain...

The (Draft) Rules of Pragmatic Environmentalism

12th September 2014

I was called a hypocrite last week. Not to my face, the individual is too cowardly to look me in the eye. No, he took...

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