Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

Can you sell austerity? And should you even try?

10th February 2012

I love getting away from it all. Leaving all the pressures of modern living behind and getting out on the hills, travelling under my own...

Is it time to learn to love carbon offsetting?

8th February 2012

From a green point of view, one of the 'controversial' issues in The God Species is author Mark Lynas' call for a revival in carbon...

Book Reviews: Hot, Flat & Crowded and The God Species

6th February 2012

I don't tend to read many "green" books these days - not because I think I know it all, but because I'm topping up my...

Are smart phones now driving dematerialisation?

3rd February 2012

I have always been sceptical of the argument that multi-function devices like smart phones are eco-friendly by avoiding the need for a stack of equivalent...

Green Business Confidential 12: Integrate, Integrate, Integrate

27th January 2012

Here's the latest in my Green Business Confidential podcast series. It's called "Integrate, Integrate, Integrate" which is probably the most important word in green business,...

What Kodak’s demise tells us about cleantech

23rd January 2012

Poor Kodak. You couldn't make it up. A classic brand invents a great new technology (digital photography) but decides it would cannibalise their own products,...

There’s no such thing as too much renewable energy

20th January 2012

There were stories in the press this month about £1.2m worth of 'constraint payments' made to Scottish wind farms over Christmas to not generate electricity...

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