Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

Waitrose's bags of milk flop

21st April 2010

It was no surprise to me that Waitrose's "eco-friendly" bags of milk have not sold and, ironically, led to lots of wasted milk. Simple question...

Eyjafjallajoekull and all that

19th April 2010

There are two types of natural disaster - the ones that we can cause like landslides from deforestation, sea level rises from climate change, or...

Sustainability in the Service Sector – video

15th April 2010

Sustainability in the Service Sector from Gareth Kane on Vimeo. Here's an extended clip from the Service Network event I did back in February. This...

Are you part of the problem…

13th April 2010

...or part of the solution?I've been working with a number of clients recently who were focussing on how they could reduce their impact on the...

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...

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