Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

The Rules of Green Business Start-ups

13th June 2011

On Friday I was interviewed for a PhD project as an 'ecopreneur' and it got me mulling and chin scratching. If you are thinking of starting...

Working from home for dummies

10th June 2011

Undoubtedly one of the easiest and effective opportunities to green a business is to encourage telecommuting - or working from home as real people call...

My Lo-tech Approach to Staff Engagement

8th June 2011

I am increasingly trying to eradicate Powerpoint from my stakeholder engagement sessions whether for employees or external people. Tomorrow I'm jetting off to deliver the...

Green Academy July Sessions

7th June 2011

From July, Green Academy splits into two streams so there will be two sessions on 6 July: 11:00 BST An Introduction to Green Business -...

Do we need the Carbon & Energy Saving Trusts?

6th June 2011

Compared to the furore over other UK Government cuts, the announcement that two key environmental quangos, the Carbon Trust and the Energy Saving Trust, are...

Great TED talk on sustainability

3rd June 2011

Regular readers will know I'm a big, big fan of TED talks - I thrive on the optimism, insight and eloquence of the speakers. This...

From niche to normal

2nd June 2011

One of the main trends I identified in my new book The Green Executive is the shift from 'green' being the exception to it becoming...

Time to up our game!

31st May 2011

The International Energy Agency (IEA) is fast becoming the scariest organisation in the world - almost every press release contains extraordinarily bad news - that peak...

The Waste Hierarchy ain't carved in stone

27th May 2011

I was at the North East Recycling Forum (NERF) yesterday - catching up with contacts and the latest in the waste industry. One of the...

This isn't just any green packaging…

25th May 2011

My partner bought this bottle of wine at Marks & Spencer at the weekend. If you look carefully at the pic, you'll see that the...

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