Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

On Sustainability, there’s always a (stupid) excuse to do nothing

29th August 2023

Today there are two big environmental stories in the UK news. The first is the suggestion that the Government will relax the 'nutrient neutrality' rules...

Sustainability en France

21st August 2023

Just back from a wonderful fortnight in France, featuring a week in the Pyrenees, a week in Brittany, with 3 nights in Paris interlacing those...

Carbon Cakeism in the face of a Creeping Climate Catastrophe

31st July 2023

This morning the UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak approved 100 new oil and gas licenses for the North Sea saying that this was part of...

Cost of Living Crisis vs Net Zero?

24th July 2023

The narrow win by the Conservatives in last weeks Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election has thrown the UK political establishment into a tailspin over the...

Talking at someone about Sustainability is NOT engagement

18th July 2023

This morning I had an interesting chat with an old business contact about Sustainability engagement. We got into the psychology of change and in particular...

How to overcome eco-anxiety…

11th July 2023

While I haven't softened my position on Just Stop Oil's tactics, I'm starting to feel a bit sorry for them. As well as their younger...

The humble bicycle might yet save the planet

3rd July 2023

Last week, having reasonably successfully navigated a couple of high stress months, I took off for four days solo bikepacking in the Scottish Cairngorms. Bikepacking...

Not me guv, or why Climate Change is always someone’s fault

19th June 2023

I try not to spread doom as doom is demotivating, but last night I tweeted on my political twitter feed about the heat wave currently...

The denial of climate science is, sadly, human nature

12th June 2023

I'm currently reading the wonderfully quirky and free-ranging Map Addict by Mike Parker which I happened upon in a charity bookshop a couple of weeks...

What Shell’s advertising ban says to industry

7th June 2023

The UK's Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) is getting increasingly feisty when it comes to greenwash. Its latest target is Shell, for releasing a series of...

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