Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

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...

Everything you need to know about Net Zero!

5th June 2023

For the last few months, I've been beavering away producing a new online training course entitled "Everything you need to know about Net Zero"....

The Pros and Cons of Offsetting

29th May 2023

I've never signed up to the George Monbiot view that offsetting carbon emissions (ie paying a third party to remove an equivalent amount of carbon...

Sometimes you’ve got to rip it up and start again…

22nd May 2023

I bought the iMac I'm typing this on a couple of years ago. As a long time Mac user who runs his IT until it...

My Car Club – a great example of a product-service system

15th May 2023

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I’d taken the (supposedly impossible) step of going car-free. Well, not entirely car free, as I’ve joined a...

Local Elections and Sustainability

9th May 2023

If you're wondering why I haven't been posting so frequently here recently, it's because I've been out pounding the pavements to ensure I got re-elected...

Saving our Wild Isles Review: Perfectly Pitched

19th April 2023

One of the most influential public engagement events of recent years was the TV series Blue Planet II, presented by the peerless legend David Attenborough,...

Why LTNs make (some) people mad…

3rd April 2023

Over the last six months, I've been carefully watching the Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) end of the culture war play out as it is a...

So, I cycled to an automotive event…

28th March 2023

Last Thursday night, I was invited to the North East Automobile Association (NEAA) Annual Awards at Ramside Hall outside Durham as I was one of...

So, yesterday I did something massive. I went car-free (ish)

16th March 2023

Yesterday I sold my car. Conversations have gone a bit like this: "What did you trade it in for?" "Nothing, I just sold it." "So...

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