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Aren’t we just brilliant? Well, it is Xmas…

21st December 2012

You know those really annoying, self-congratulatory round robin letters you get at this time of year? Well, this is my unashamedly boastful version as it...

Is it possible to change your company culture for sustainability?

19th December 2012

"Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got." So said the business guru to...

How to pay lip service to sustainability

17th December 2012

I generally assume that readers of this blog want to take sustainability seriously. It suddenly hit me that maybe I'm being a bit presumptuous and that...

Pinning Down the Business Case for Sustainability

14th December 2012

I spent yesterday running a sustainability strategy workshop for directors and senior managers of a FTSE100 company. They didn't disappoint - they challenged, they argued,...

David Cameron, Cognitive Dissonance and Clarity

12th December 2012

F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said: The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the...

Green Academy 2013 Special Offer

11th December 2012

2013 will be the third year of our Green Academy on-line training programme - our low-carbon, time-efficient, cost-effective way of boosting your personal performance as...

Are Quick Wins A Good Thing?

10th December 2012

There's an old time management trope where a professor stands in front of his class and fills a jar full of rocks and asks is...

J&B Shows How to Enter and Thrive in the Green Sector

7th December 2012

One of the speakers at last week's North East Recycling Forum (NERF) Conference was Vikki Jackson-Smith of J&B Recycling. I was delighted to hear how...

What We Can Learn from Wales’ Waste Win

5th December 2012

Last Thursday I went to the North East Recycling Forum Annual Conference - one of the few events I intend as a punter. This partly...

Movember, Memes and, er, Mployee Engagement

3rd December 2012

This weekend, the air resonated with the sound of a million electric razors signalling the end of another Movember and a million temporary moustaches. These...

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