Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

Greetings from (occasionally) sunny Northumberland

5th April 2012

I'm away with family in Budle Bay in Northumberland - just south of Lindisfarne or Holy Island. Budle Bay is part of the Lindisfarne nature...

The Sins of Your Suppliers

3rd April 2012

Here's the latest in my Green Business Confidential podcast series. It's called "The Sins of Your Suppliers" - why you must take active responsibility for...

Are we stuck in an oil price doom loop?

30th March 2012

I'm reading The Third Industrial Revolution by Jeremy Rifkin - I'll post a review here in the next few weeks - but in the first...

Getting the message right, first time, everytime

28th March 2012

In one of my client workshops, a manufacturing operative, straight off the factory floor and still wearing his dirty overalls, put it bluntly: “We’ve got...

Will your sustainability programme outlive you?

26th March 2012

Looking at many of the big sustainability leaders like InterfaceFLOR, Marks & Spencer and Body Shop, it is clear that their success, initially at least,...

Sustainability Takes Teamwork

23rd March 2012

One of the frequent criticisms of climate change communications is the dissonance between the scale of the problem and the ability of individuals to make...

The Wisdom of Craig Sams, Green & Blacks

21st March 2012

Yesterday I was delivering workshops at the Get It Sussed event in Gateshead. While for some the highlight was hanging around in the foyer with...

Are you ready for a drought?

19th March 2012

Living in Britain is supposedly synonymous with owning an umbrella. And a cagoule. And wellies. But something strange is happening - or not happening -...

Just Do It!

16th March 2012

If you follow the green press, you may have noticed another spat between pro-nuclear (Monbiot, Lynas) and anti-nuclear (Friends of the Earth) greens. At the...

Yes, No or Maybe?

14th March 2012

I've often said that the litmus test for a green business is not so much what good things they do as what bad things they...

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