Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

Telling Tales

19th October 2009

Story-telling is a powerful way of creating a compelling vision for the future. When doing backcasting exercises in strategy workshops, I used to get participants...

BTW…

16th October 2009

I've let the techies loose on the workings behind this blog to link it to the new website so if it suddenly sto;-)

Business Opportunities in Climate Change Adaptation

16th October 2009

I was running a CSR workshop with a major international engineering firm yesterday. Given the traditional engineers' reactive (and sometimes reactionary) approach to such 'soft...

A Bumpy Road to Copenhagen… does it matter?

14th October 2009

There's an awful lot of expectation on the COP15 climate change talks at Copenhagen in December. The big carbon emitters have been circling each other...

Forthcoming new arrivals…

12th October 2009

I'm taking break from doing the final proof edits on The Three Secrets of Green Business. This is extraordinarily tedious, but I have found one...

How mature is your sustainability programme?

8th October 2009

I've developed this model for the maturity of sustainability programmes from nada to a fully integrated programme. You can download a bigger version from the...

Personal Journeys

6th October 2009

I'm writing this on the train back to Newcastle, having left a rather unseasonally sticky London behind me. I'm smiling to myself at one of...

On the road rails again…

5th October 2009

On another train down to London this morning, this time to interview another high profile Green Executive for my eponymous next book and, tomorrow, attend...

Green jobs in a green economy?

1st October 2009

There's an interesting article on Fast Company giving three estimations of the potential for new green jobs by 2020:2.7m in the EU according to Greenpeace...

I’m on the train…

30th September 2009

...down to Watford to run a sustainability workshop for senior NHS staff.I love the train - even going through as bland countryside as East Yorkshire....

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