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A couple of weeks in the Yorkshire Dales

16th August 2021

I'm back at Terra Infirma Towers after a two week family holiday in Wensleydale, Yorkshire, staying in a stone ex-farmhouse near Hawes just 75 miles...

Sharma has to learn to say “No.”

10th August 2021

As we head towards the delayed COP26 climate change conference in November, the press seems to be leading on many slightly tangential issues - the...

Book Review: Value(s) by Mark Carney

4th August 2021

When appointed Governor of the Bank of England in 2013, Mark Carney was described as the Rock Star of Bankers. Well, in Value(s), Carney has...

15 years delivering Sustainability with Terra Infirma

2nd August 2021

Crikey. 15 years ago today I relinquished the safety net of a salary and generous pension scheme to fulfill an ambition I’d had since undergrad...

Is consumerism really killing the planet? No, it’s worse than that…

26th July 2021

The green movement has an annoying habit of blaming environmental impacts squarely on capitalism, and consumerism in particular. The anti-capitalist slant ignores the inconvenient fact...

A quick reset with nature

19th July 2021

This time last week I was on a train heading north into Scotland. In my rucksack was a set of lightweight camping gear, along with...

Sustainability for the Social Media Generation

5th July 2021

I was sponsored through University by the Ministry of Defence. Initially, I had no problem with this – after all, every country has the right...

From “be OK” to “be the best!” on Sustainability

28th June 2021

My avalanche of work rumbles on – never have I had so many big simultaneous projects on the go, so things like blogging, vlogging etc...

Pushing at an open door on Sustainability pt 257

21st June 2021

Friday saw the apex of my biggest current project – developing an umbrella regional Sustainability Strategy for 20 largely autonomous organisations belonging to a much...

Does ‘upcycling’ actually exist?

17th June 2021

Every time I hear or read a reference to 'upcycling', my instinctive response is "Really?" The word is often used by chi-chi second hand furniture...

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