Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

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"...

Legislation changes. It’s the law!

1st June 2012

There's an old(ish) tech saying "Never buy version 1.0 of anything." The thinking is that the first version of anything hasn't been 'battle hardened' by use...

Make it easy to go green

28th May 2012

A couple of years ago I was staying in a very nice boutique hotel in the East Midlands which obviously took its environmental performance very...

Nuggets from the Sustainability Mastermind Group

25th May 2012

On Wednesday this week I launched my sustainability mastermind group with an inaugural meeting at the Baltic Art Gallery. We booked a third floor meeting...

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