Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

I’m now “The Carbon Coach”

22nd October 2007

One of the more interesting projects I'm involved with at the minute is 'acting' as "The Carbon Coach" for two Tyneside teenagers for a DVD...

Green Washers and Green Winners Survey

19th October 2007

The Chatsworth FOOTSIE 100 Green Washers and Green Winners survey has found that UK big business puts image and consumer pressure ahead of genuine concern...

Supermarkets Start Putting Words into Practice

17th October 2007

Six months ago, you couldn't open a newspaper without one supermarket supremo or another launching a programme to make their chain more sustainable. Well the...

A Trillion Pages of Waste A Day

15th October 2007

Despite having spent ten years working in the environment and sustainability field, the sheer volume of our consumption of natural resources still has the capacity...

Oil price at record high – is this the beginning of the end?

12th October 2007

With the BBC reporting that oil prices are staying near the record high set in September, the 'peak oil' debate has started again.'Peak Oil' is...

What makes a product green?

10th October 2007

One of my pet subjects is making products greener (don't forget about my free workshops at Dott this month), and the key question is "What...

On the Rebound?

8th October 2007

Last week I made reference to the 'rebound effect'. I like to illustrate this concept with a little story. Back in December 2003, I wrote...

SME awareness of legislation still poor, but improving

5th October 2007

This year's NetRegs survey of UK Small and Medium Enterprises has shown a sudden jump in awareness of environmental issues and legislation - but the...

Environment Agency will require Resource Efficiency data from IPPC sites

3rd October 2007

The ENDS Report is, well, reporting that the Environment Agency in England and Wales is planning to make the reporting of Resource Efficiency data mandatory...

Free Eco-design Sessions

1st October 2007

Over the last year Terra Infirma has provided technical input and training sessions to the Dott07 programme, or Design of the Time 2007 to give...

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