Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

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...

The Ultimate Career Goal of Every Sustainability Practitioner…

15th January 2014

...should be to make ourselves redundant. Unfortunately I don't think it's going to happen in my lifetime, but it is the goal we should always...

Shout sustainability from the rooftops or keep mum?

13th January 2014

The first green neologism I have come across in 2014 is 'green hush'. If greenwash is exaggerating environmental performance then green hush is playing it...

More Strategy Secrets of the Sustainability Masterminds

10th January 2014

On Tuesday we had the sixth meeting of the Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group (CoSM) - the small group of senior sustainability executives from large organisations...

Tickling The Employee Engagement Sweet Spot

8th January 2014

The diagram above explains why most employee engagement for sustainability fails. It is all set slap bang in the middle of the world of sustainability...

Is it time to stop banging on about climate change?

6th January 2014

That title may be a surprising one, it even might get some people foaming at the mouth, but bear with me. 'Risk perception' is the...

Fiendish Low Carbon Quiz Answers

2nd January 2014

Every December, I produce a quiz for subscribers to The Low Carbon Agenda. Here are the answers to 2013's 6 fiendishly difficult questions: 1. Which...

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