Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

The kids are alright, but adults need more attention…

21st May 2014

My eldest son, Harry, has been asked to design a carbon footprint awareness poster at school this week. As I dropped him off this morning,...

Go Big or Go Home

19th May 2014

I get a little frustrated with the obsession with the little stuff. People fretting over the best time of day to charge their mobile phone,...

Sustainability by Innovation vs Sustainability by Metric

14th May 2014

Yesterday, I had a fantastic visit to Camira, the UK's largest interior fabrics company. Even if you've never heard of them, you've almost certainly sat...

‘Do Nothing’ never looked so unappetising…

12th May 2014

Industries fail. Big brands hit the rocks. Governments fall. Change is as inevitable as the sun rising in the morning. The winners are those who...

Green Jujitsu is the Launchpad of Employee Engagement

9th May 2014

My green jujitsu approach to employee engagement says forget all the clichés of 'green' - the jute bags, the fair trade chocolate and the heart-rending...

What if your boss doesn’t get Sustainability?

6th May 2014

Regular readers will know my opinion that the one difference between the best and the rest at sustainability (or any other organisational priority for that...

Play the game

2nd May 2014

Too many sustainability people I meet are single-handedly trying to change a huge monolithic organisation into some kind of hippy village with people sitting around in...

Save us, please, from vacuous green slogans

30th April 2014

Saw this the other day. Anybody guess what it means? Does 'green' just refer to the company livery? Or is it a promise of sustainable...

Getting Skin in the Sustainability Game

28th April 2014

I've written before about the need to get skin in the game for sustainability - to turn spectators into participants. Otherwise many of your colleagues...

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