Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

A wee case study in change management for Sustainability

28th November 2022

Regular readers will know I'm a City Councillor here in Newcastle. A month ago I girded my loins and kept my tin hat to hand...

Whatever happened to Citizens Assemblies?

21st November 2022

About 4-5 years ago, the solution to climate change was apparently the Citizens Assembly (CA), a small but representative sample of the general public to...

A tale of two gigafactories…

14th November 2022

As the name suggests, an EV battery gigafactory is truly colossal with a price tag to match – we're talking billions rather than millions. A...

Climate change: we have the technology

7th November 2022

Listening to the radio this morning, during an item about the COP27 climate change conference, I heard a UK politician refer to the scope for...

So, just how Green is Rishi Sunak?

1st November 2022

I've never seen political turbulence like it – three UK Prime Ministers in a couple of months. But now Rishi Sunak has taken the helm...

We need Sustainability at Scale (but watch out for the little stuff)

24th October 2022

Given the average rating of my online Green Jujitsu Employee Engagement course is roughly 4.4 out of 5 after more than 7000 students, I don't...

What is Just Stop Oil trying to achieve?

17th October 2022

On the face of it, the Extinction Rebellion (XR) spin-off Just Stop Oil and I agree on our goal: a rapid end to the fossil...

Sustainability at the Party Conferences

10th October 2022

As a political geek, every year I watch the leaders' speeches from all the major UK political party conferences. And every year I post a...

Some Thoughts on Business & Biodiversity

4th October 2022

Last week, the Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group (CoSM) considered the topic of business and biodiversity. Here are my main takeaways: Biodiversity is as big an...

Pumping frack dash, it’s a gas, gas, gas?

26th September 2022

The selection of Liz Truss as the new UK Prime Minister at the start of the month was completely overshadowed by the death of Queen...

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