Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

Book Review – The Green Book: New Directions For Liberals in Government

20th May 2013

I've been a member of the UK's third political party, the Liberal Democrats, for the best part of a decade - and an elected Councillor...

Sustainability Stories or Statistics?

17th May 2013

How many times have you sat through a sustainability presentation that consists of graph after graph, table of data after table of data. And...

The New Mindset

15th May 2013

How to Unblock Global Progress on Climate Change

13th May 2013

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was set up at the Earth Summit in 1992. That's 21 years ago and where are...

Green Business Confidential: Lighten Up

10th May 2013

Here's the latest in my Green Business Confidential podcast series. It's called "Lighten Up". Make sure you listen to the end... Or, you can download...

What would you ban, if you could?

8th May 2013

"Hurrah!", shouted the green world, as the neonicotinoid pesticides blamed by everybody (except their producers and their political allies) for the worrying decline in bee...

Can you design a green economy?

3rd May 2013

You only have to see the repercussions of the 'Arab Spring' to see that revolutions are inherently unstable. Yet we constantly call for a 'revolution'...

Have eco-labels had their day?

1st May 2013

You get eco-labels on everything these days. You can't grab a coffee without it being rainforest-certified, fair-trade, organic or all three. This very ubiquity bothers...

The Real Tragedy of Bangladesh

29th April 2013

As I write, the official death toll from the collapsed Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh has hit 380, hundreds remain unaccounted for, and the eponymous...

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