Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

Meeting the Sustainability Challenge

11th November 2019

On Friday I went to an IEMA roundtable on the climate emergency – the IEMA event I have attended since I was nominated as a...

Why ‘zero’ is such a powerful Sustainability target

8th November 2019

I've had quite a week of zeros. On Wednesday night, with my political hat on, I proposed a motion to Newcastle City Council for zero...

Will this really be the greenest election ever?

4th November 2019

Lots of green-leaning people have got excited by an Ipsos-Mori poll saying that over half of the UK's population will consider climate change when making...

Innovation for Sustainability in the Supply Chain

28th October 2019

This time last year I was beavering away writing the Sustainability Chapter of the new 'Innovation in Procurement and Supply' textbook for the Chartered Institute...

Staying profitable in a Low Carbon Economy

24th October 2019

I'm currently designing a workshop to help small businesses understand their place in a low carbon economy. The stakes are high - the current UK...

Why we get stuck on a planet-destroying path (and what to do about it)

21st October 2019

Whether in my day job, or particularly in my (local) political career, my biggest frustration is decisions are made outside our Sustainability bubble which lock...

Why Extinction Rebellion needs to learn some Green Jujitsu

18th October 2019

The Extinction Rebellion (XR) climate crisis movement hit brutal reality yesterday when an attempt to halt the London Underground led to an ugly brawl as...

Book Review: Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro

14th October 2019

In 1996, I visited the Auschwitz/Birkenau death camps in Poland. I was in two minds about going, with a nagging feeling that I was indulging...

Why only green capitalism can save the planet

11th October 2019

One of the great pervading myths of the climate debate is that climate change is being driven solely by global capitalism/consumerism/neoliberalism and that only some...

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (turn and face the strange…)

7th October 2019

One of the weirder aspects of climate denial/scepticism movement is the assumption that the only thing that can change is the laws of physics. Those...

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