Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

Make it easy for your staff to be green!

29th July 2011

At the minute I am spending the bulk of my project time engaging clients' staff members in sustainability with the aim of changing their attitudes...

Avoiding Greenwash: How Green is Green?

27th July 2011

Greenwash is widely regarded as the greatest sin in the green business world. The term was coined by environmentalist Jay Westerveld in response to those...

What matters to us

25th July 2011

It just seems to be unrelenting bad going-on-horrific news at the minute: the famine in Somalia, the massacre in Norway and Amy Winehouse's tragic, if...

Green Business Is Just A Fad

22nd July 2011

I'm taking a day off today, so I've handed over the reins of Green Business Confidential to special guest Hugh Jim Pakt, CEO of DirtyCorp...

When the going gets tough…

20th July 2011

Regular readers will know that three days a week I go for a run along the Ouseburn river valley up into Jesmond Dene and back...

Storytelling

18th July 2011

I was delighted at the weekend to be sent this amazing picture by Melvin Redeker of him reading The Green Executive while on a kayaking...

Living in the Real World…

15th July 2011

When I first got started in this business I used to get patronised a lot. "It would be nice to [be greener]," these grey haired...

Green Business Confidential: Stretch Yourself

13th July 2011

Here's the latest Green Business Confidential podcast, entitled "Stretch Yourself" - it's about how incremental targets are a false friend. Or, you can download it...

Leadership vs Management

11th July 2011

The central theme of my latest book, The Green Executive, is that 'green' has been elevated from environmental management to business leadership. But what does...

Don't Print This E-mail…

8th July 2011

Why do people still include "Think of the environment, Don't print this e-mail unless you really have to." in the thicket of information in their...

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