Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

Are your employees letting you down?

7th September 2012

Every morning this week I've walked past a parked car belonging to a meter reading company. The back of the car is plastered in stickers...

Sustainability Drivers Template

5th September 2012

Here's a simple graphical template I developed for brainstorming sustainability drivers and internal factors - effectively a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis. Despite...

What the Paralympics can teach us about Sustainability

3rd September 2012

"Don't focus on the disability. Focus on the ability." Oscar Pistorius Paralympic Gold Medalist Olympian Photo: Erik van Leeuwen (bron: Wikipedia), Creative Commons Licence

Musings on a Green Economy pt4: What Needs Fixing And How Do We Fix It?

30th August 2012

This is the fourth and last part of my holiday musings on a Green Economy - looking at what's stopping us achieve a sustainable economy...

Musings on a Green Economy pt3: What’s Working

28th August 2012

Here's part 3 of my holiday musings on a green economy. Last time, we looked at two models of sustainability - eco-efficiency (doing more with...

Musings on a Green Economy pt2: Visions of Utopia

23rd August 2012

So, as discussed in pt1, we need to green our economy not only to make us environmentally sustainability (the medium-long term priority) but also to...

Musings on a Green Economy pt1: After the Crash

21st August 2012

I'm officially on holiday for the next two weeks, but due to the size of the bump on my pregnant partner, we're holidaying at home...

Objectivity is Subjective

17th August 2012

One of the most frustrating things about this business is the politicisation of environmental issues, and how difficult this makes getting objective analyses. Whether you...

Are product lifecycles getting longer?

15th August 2012

Some interesting anecdotal evidence: I had to make a 'repair or upgrade?' decision on my 4 year old MacBook Pro a couple of months ago....

Weasel Words

13th August 2012

I heard my least favourite weasel words last week: "There is a green thread running through all the decisions we make." This was justification for...

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