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Sustainability Model

9th April 2010

I've uploaded clips from my presentation to the Service Network back in February up onto YouTube - here's me explaining the sustainability maturity model -...

Book Review: Confessions of a Radical Industrialist by Ray Anderson

6th April 2010

This book seemed to take an age to get published in the UK, and I had it on pre-order as soon as I knew it...

Ethical Questions

1st April 2010

I've been working on a chapter of The Green Executive covering personal and corporate values. This is probably the trickiest chapter of all as personal...

We're coming over all web 2.0…

30th March 2010

As part of the upgrades to the site, we're going deeper into the world of web 2.0. I now have a Twitter account and a...

Really Stupid Designs

26th March 2010

You don't have to look far to see plenty of examples of designs that are really stupid from an ecological point of view. Take the...

What's a Green Investment Bank?

24th March 2010

With today's UK Governmental budget expected to be all doom and gloom, one green diamond in the murk could be Mr Darling's well trailed Green...

When does Greenwash start and end?

22nd March 2010

The word greenwash came up quite a lot during my various presentations and discussions last week. The Cambridge Dictionary definition of greenwash is:"to make people...

What a week!

19th March 2010

Finally back in Terra Infirma Towers after a whirlwind week, particularly yesterday where I travelled from London to York, gave a presentation on the business...

Base 2010: Day 2

17th March 2010

Unexpected pleasure last night - steady on - an organic/biodynamic wine tasting session hosted by Sommelier of the Year 2009, Laura Rhys. None of this...

Base 2010: Day 1

16th March 2010

The first thing I saw this morning was the sight of two swans skimming low over the Royal Victoria Dock outside my hotel window -...

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