Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

You can’t always get what you want, but if you try, sometimes…

27th June 2022

At the weekend, I met up with a group of school friends to go and watch the Rolling Stones at Hyde Park (they were brilliant)....

Book Review: Net Zero: How we stop causing climate change by Dieter Helm

20th June 2022

I haven't read a Sustainability book for some time, so when my partner handed me a copy of Dieter Helm's Net Zero at an Alpkit...

Why Stretch Targets Work – in Life or Sustainability

13th June 2022

This morning, I am extremely tired. At 4:15am on Saturday, I was lined up in Rockliffe, Scotland with 299 others to take part in the...

Sustainability musings from the West Coast of Scotland

6th June 2022

I'm busy wading through a wall of e-mails following a wonderfully relaxing half-term holiday on the Craignish peninsula. Our rented old farmhouse overlooked an overlapping...

The Australian Election: A New (Climate) Hope?

23rd May 2022

I first became aware of the change in political leadership in Australia when the BBC played a clip of incoming PM Anthony Albanese (right) pledging...

Sustainability Engagement: Bottom up or top down?

16th May 2022

In almost every sustainability strategy project I do, I find that the default client assumption is engagement is something that is done with front line...

Sustainability thoughts from the UK Local Elections

9th May 2022

I suppose you could also call this blog "why I haven't blogged for goodness knows how many weeks." Regular readers will know that I'm a...

How frequently should you collect Sustainability data?

12th April 2022

We live in an age of realtime data. Many of us wear a smartwatch counting our steps (forward and upward), monitoring our heart rate and...

The only way to get boardroom buy-in for Sustainability

4th April 2022

In the last year I've supported the development of Sustainability Strategies for two very similar umbrella organisations. The main difference between the two is that...

The Future of Transport?

21st March 2022

Last week I finally got hold of my new mode of transport – a Tern GSD cargobike. It’s the same length as a normal bike,...

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