Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

Crunch time in Copenhagen

18th December 2009

Looking on from afar, it is hard to judge how the climate change negotiations are going - for every 'breakthrough' story there is a counterbalancing...

So now I’m an author

16th December 2009

Yesterday I got my consignment of my first book, The Three Secrets of Green Business. So now I'm officially an author - something I have...

You can’t kill a zombie

14th December 2009

Ben Goldacre writes the regular Bad Science column in the Guardian. Normally he sticks to medical issues, particularly the MMR scare, but he turned his...

The benefits snowball

11th December 2009

When I do workshops with either professional or student engineers, I always emphasise the need to take a systems approach to design. If you optimise...

Throw out the doom, gloom and conspiracy theories!

9th December 2009

So the Copenhagen juggernaut judders on, with daily starts and stops, waves of optimism and pessimism, and the CRU e-mail leak providing a nice counterpoint...

Feedback from the LCBPE, 3rd Dec

7th December 2009

I had a brilliant but exhausting day at the Low Carbon Best Practice Exchange last Thursday. A late train led to a missed connection wiping...

How to settle the climate debate…

4th December 2009

A bit of fun for a Friday to get us ready for Copenhagen next week* - "Al Gore" and "Christopher Monckton" have a rap battle...

No place for tree-huggers

2nd December 2009

Running a green business is tough. I have seen many people get bitten by the green bug and then just get bitten. I have seen...

Low Carbon Agenda: Jeers and Cheers

30th November 2009

Thanks to everyone who has given feedback on last week's Low Carbon Agenda. Some found that the text wrapped strangely around the central diagram in...

Geek Central: Virtualisation

27th November 2009

The economy is fast becoming digitised - photos, music, newspapers, movies, books, shopping, networking. This is a good thing from a dematerialisation point of view,...

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