Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

Building A Sustainable Supply Chain hits the shelves/ether!

4th November 2013

I'm delighted to announce that Building a Sustainable Supply Chain, my second DōShort eBook/short book, goes on sale this week. If you haven't come across DōShorts...

Interview with Sean Axon, Global Sustainability Director, Johnson Matthey plc

31st October 2013

Precious metals giant Johnson Matthey plc is one of those huge companies you may never have heard of, but if you have a conventional car...

Tesla: The Apple of Greentech

28th October 2013

Remember what smartphones were like before the iPhone? Fiddly keyboards, nests of menus and terrible web navigation. Then along came Steve Job's little shiny slab...

Green: The New Normal

25th October 2013

If I told you about a country where, last quarter, more than a third of all electricity was generated from low carbon sources, which one...

Interview with Ramon Arratia, Interface

23rd October 2013

Ramon Arratia is a Sustainability Director at carpet and floor covering giant InterfaceFLOR, reknowned as true sustainability front-runners. Ramon is a regular speaker on sustainability...

Can you account for unknown unknowns in sustainability?

21st October 2013

In 2002, while trying to justify the forthcoming war with Iraq, United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld came out with the infamous quote: "There are...

The Quiet Green Revolution

18th October 2013

Yesterday I opened the BigEcoShow at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland. My address was entitled "The Quiet Green Revolution" - reflecting on the scale...

The 80:20 Rule and Sustainability

16th October 2013

Historical factoid klaxon: the 80:20 rule, or Pareto Principle, was named after Vilfredo Pareto, who observed in 1906 that 80% of the land in Italy was...

Interview with Stephen Weldon, CSR Manager of Greggs plc

14th October 2013

I recently carried out a number of interviews with top CSR/Sustainability Managers for a couple of book projects I am working on. As I am...

Whose Footprint Are You Part Of?

11th October 2013

On Monday, I spoke at the inaugural Preferred Supplier event at the Design Centre in Gateshead. My speech was entitled "Whose footprint are you...

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