Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

Happy Birthday to Us, Happy Birthday to Us!

1st August 2013

Yep, it was 7 years ago today that we metaphorically smashed a bottle of champagne (the smashing was metaphorical, not the bubbly) on the hull...

Sustainability is a Joke

30th July 2013

Family holidays lead to family in-jokes and the most repeated gag on this one comes from my second son, Jimmy winding up older members of...

Queuing for a Ferry and the Psychology of Energy Use

25th July 2013

I'm on our family summer holiday - this year, we're in my hometown of Belfast. My mother has just turned 70, so we had a...

Make Green The Default

23rd July 2013

I have an ageing HP laser printer - I bought a duplex device as I wanted to be a good little greenie and print double...

The Power of the Sustainability Workshop

19th July 2013

On Wednesday's Winning Business for Small Environmental Consultancies webinar, I was asked whether all my consulting engagements involved workshops. And the answer is, yes, the...

The Struggle for Sustainability

17th July 2013

Greenpeace don't do things by halves do they? Last week's Ice Climb protest saw 6 climbers scale London's iconic new Shard skyscraper to bring attention...

Green Thread or Spinning a Yarn?

15th July 2013

A while a go I mentioned an organisation which had ditched its environmental commitments and how it had fallen back from front runner to also...

Is Green Jujitsu unethical?

12th July 2013

The popular sustainability website 2degrees occasionally reposts blogs from here. One, on using Green Jujitsu to deal with climate sceptics, really rubbed an academic up...

Future Sustainability Strategy with the Sustainability Masterminds

10th July 2013

What's the best approach to developing a sustainability strategy? What should be in and what should you leave out? What goals and objectives should you...

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