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Awareness weeks/days/hours nailed…

7th February 2014

I was having another rant about the pointlessness of green awareness weeks/days/hours recently when Hiram Wurf pointed me towards the satirical song "National Brotherhood Week"...

Ask Gareth: My Green Champions Aren’t Happy

5th February 2014

We're very excited here at Terra Infirma Towers about this new venture - Ask Gareth. The concept is very simple - you send me your...

Getting into a Sustainability Mindset

3rd February 2014

To act without knowing why; to do things as they have always been done, without asking why; to engage in an activity all one's life...

Work To Your Strengths

31st January 2014

Here's the latest in the Green Business Confidential podcast series. It's called "Work To Your Strengths" - a plea to focus your sustainability efforts on...

Red Tape or Green Light?

29th January 2014

UK PM David Cameron gave a speech to the Federation of Small Business (FSB) on Monday where he lauded the Government's drive to cut regulation....

Reasons to be cheerful (parts 1-327)

27th January 2014

We can be a gloomy lot, us environmentalists - always on the verge of despair. But, hold on a minute... Renewable energy produced a record...

Let’s inspire the next generation!

24th January 2014

I'm starting to feel my age. Throughout my career I've always been younger than average, whether in employment, in management, in local politics, in self-employment....

Green Thread = Green Wash

22nd January 2014

This month I had to comment publicly on an important local strategy which boasted about having "a green thread" running its policies. Yesterday, someone complimented...

Want to accelerate sustainability? Then take your foot off the brake!

20th January 2014

There's an Chinese proverb which goes: The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is today. In other...

The Answer is ‘Run A Workshop’ – What Was The Question?

17th January 2014

When coaching a number of sustainability practitioners before Christmas, I noticed that, whatever the question they asked me, my immediate impulse was to answer "run...

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