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Blame it on Rio+20: Consensus or Competition?

25th June 2012

So the Rio+20 conference chugged to its almost inevitable anticlimax. The NGOs and green-friendly press are looking for villains - missing big name leaders, lack...

The Biggest Barrier to Sustainability

22nd June 2012

Here's the latest in my Green Business Confidential podcast series. It's called "The Biggest Barrier to Sustainability" and you'll have to listen to find out...

Why Rio+20 and the G20 should be one meeting

20th June 2012

Two big global jamborees at the same time: Rio+20 trying save the planet and the G20 in Mexico trying to save the global economy. Really...

Why the #EndFossilFuelSubsidies campaign is so clever

19th June 2012

Robert Redford:"We should not be subsidizing the destruction of our planet" huff.to/L8J85X #endfossilfuelsubsidies — HuffPost Green (@HuffPostGreen) June 18, 2012 For over 24 hour...

From Total Football to Total Sustainability

18th June 2012

Oh, how the mighty fall! The Dutch national football team limped out of Euro 2012 last night without a point to their name. I was disappointed...

Why Sustainability Programmes Fail

15th June 2012

I diagnose the most common causes of failure of sustainability programmes as: No leadership: leadership is critical to any successful corporate transformation programme and, given...

Are we on the cusp of Energy 2.0?

13th June 2012

The Facebook/Twitter/Flickr/YouTube/Wordpress revolution of the last 5-7 years has famously been dubbed Web 2.0. Web 1.0 was like a huge electronic catalogue of information to...

Compost, Natural Cycles and the Circular Economy

11th June 2012

Here's a grubby little secret - shhh - don't tell anyone - but I'm a closet compost fanatic. At last count I operate at least...

Book Review: Mad Like Tesla by Tyler Hamilton

7th June 2012

As soon as I walked into the meeting room, I knew I had made a mistake. The huge table was at least 6 inches deep...

Keep Britain Untidy?

5th June 2012

Spent Sunday morning down at "our" allotment - it is officially "hers", but I'm slowly getting dragged in more and more - particularly as "she"...

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