Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

Ch-ch-ch-changes!

4th August 2020

Man, change is hard. It's difficult enough when working with organisations, where there's a hierarchy and job descriptions and personal objectives and the risk of...

14 years of Sustainability at Terra Infirma

30th July 2020

This weekend sees the 14 anniversary of the founding of my company, Terra Infirma. It's a bit of an arbitrary date as I'd planned to...

Thoughts on the Green Party leadership contest

23rd July 2020

There was a very interesting segment on this week's Guardian Politics podcast where the two challengers for the leadership of the Green Party went head...

Eliminating barriers to Sustainability with extreme prejudice

21st July 2020

On Sunday I took middle child for a 20 mile cycle ride - choosing a route which looped through parks, around the North of the...

Sustainability Reawakens

14th July 2020

I'm very aware my blogging has reduced to a trickle in recent weeks – my excuse is that everything has ramped up again except the...

Aaaaaagh! The Zombie Energy Myths Rise Again

7th July 2020

Like a big chunk of the population, my time, energy and sanity are currently being stretched to breaking point by the increasing expectations of clients...

Built it, and the carbon will come

30th June 2020

I’m writing this in the modern extension of a house which is 125 years old today, more or less (the pic shows the extension going...

On tribalism, culture wars and Sustainability

16th June 2020

Following the defenestration of the statue of slave trader Edward Coulson in Bristol last week, a ‘topple the racists’ website appeared listing other statues around...

Winners and losers in Sustainability

9th June 2020

Last week, I got a complaint from someone on the West Coast of the USA that our Green Academy Supply Chain edition was at 6am...

On yer bike…

2nd June 2020

Last week I wandered over to my local bike shop to buy a few new inner tubes. As I waited in the socially distanced queue,...

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