Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

Whose fault is climate change?

25th September 2020

This week, a tweet appeared on my timeline saying "Capitalism created climate change, only socialism can fix it!" I fired back with the Guardian research...

How can your business help deliver the 15 Minute City?

21st September 2020

More than half of the world's population live in cities, predicted to grow to two thirds by 2050. Therefore much of the debate on Sustainability...

Plastics recycling isn’t a scam…

16th September 2020

Oh dear. Nothing like a journalist who doesn't understand statistics– or deliberately misunderstands them in search of a cheap headline. Arwa Mahdawi, writing in today's...

Sustainability must scale

14th September 2020

I’m writing this in a half-asleep, constantly hungry state as I completed my big personal challenge for this year yesterday: riding the C2C cycle route...

Talking Sustainability? Who are you talking to?

7th September 2020

Every time I read a Sustainability document, I ask myself "who is this for?" If I'm drafting a Sustainability Strategy, I always ask my client...

Is working from home good or evil?

1st September 2020

Every morning I climb the short steep hill outside our house to Sid's Corner Shop for a paper and some groceries. Sid's is a survivor...

Book Review: Rummage by Emily Cockayne

24th August 2020

I'm writing this blog in what appears to be the only house in our Victorian neighbourhood which managed to hold on to its wrought iron...

Post-holiday Random Sustainability Musings

17th August 2020

Just back at my desk after 10 days 'down South' camping/airbnb-ing and visiting friends/relatives. Here are a few of the thoughts that occurred to me...

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...

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