Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

We’ve come a long way, Boris

18th November 2020

The climate-sceptic right has long had a frustrating tendency to come up with nonsense arguments that superficially sounds like common sense. In 2013, a certain...

On Climate Change, there’s being right, and there’s being heard…

16th November 2020

Last Sunday, just before 11am, I put on the TV and sat with the kids and watched the wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph. I'm not...

Will Joe Biden save the planet?

9th November 2020

Well, it's the week after the week before. I haven't quite recovered from US-election-fever, still waking at 3am wondering how the vote is going in...

Employees start to flex their muscles on Sustainability

4th November 2020

For the last ten years or so I've been starting my workshops with the killer question "Why should your business take Sustainability seriously?" Then I...

Are we going to #BuildBackBetter? Looks promising from here…

2nd November 2020

I looked at my diary this morning and swallowed. A packed week of meetings, client workshops and deadlines, requiring some smart planning, a lot of...

Want to solve climate change? Here’s the key…

19th October 2020

Almost every low carbon forum I get involved in gets obsessed with technology. And when the Duke of Cambridge announced his Earthshot prize to fund...

Don’t lock yourself (or others) onto a unsustainable path

13th October 2020

Back in 2004 when I was first elected Councillor, I was part of the first change in political control of the Council for 31 years,...

The State of Sustainability in UK Politics

9th October 2020

Every autumn, without fail, I watch the leaders' speeches at the big three political party conferences. Until this year. I don't know if it's my...

How to make a Sustainability Leader…

5th October 2020

While writing this month's Low Carbon Agenda on What Makes a Sustainability Leader, a sudden thought dropped into my mind... how to make a Sustainability...

Stay alert: green comms lessons from the Government’s Covid slogans

28th September 2020

The Covid-19 crisis has seen more public behaviour messaging on anything I can remember since AIDS first crashed into the public consciousness in the late...

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