Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

Making Sustainability The New Normal

8th July 2019

Yesterday afternoon I pulled on my lycra, got on my bike and headed off into Northumberland to watch the end of the Beaumont Trophy –...

Trees, please!

5th July 2019

About 22 years ago I sat in a church and listened to local activists from a national pressure group plan a campaign where they would...

My simple green ‘life hack’ which can be used in the corporate world

1st July 2019

At the weekend the Guardian was running a climate special. In one article, they asked climate experts what they were doing personally to cut their...

Why Theresa May made that net zero carbon commitment

28th June 2019

Many of us were very pleasantly surprised when the supposedly lame duck Prime Minister Theresa May used her last weeks in office to push through...

When push comes to shove on climate…

27th June 2019

The planned third runway at Heathrow is fast becoming the litmus test for climate policy in UK politics. PM David Cameron (2010-2016) opposed it, before...

What Boardman’s Belisha Battle tells us about Sustainability

24th June 2019

Olympic gold medallist and yellow-jersey wearer Chris Boardman has been butting up against a brick wall of bureaucracy in his role as walking and cycling commissioner...

Can your employees talk Sustainability?

19th June 2019

Last week I had surgery at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary to fix a hernia (I may have mentioned it once or twice...). As I was...

Is there now a British political consensus on climate change?

17th June 2019

There was a very telling moment in last night's Channel 4 TV hustings for the Conservative Party leadership, and thus Prime Minister at least for...

The costs of ‘do nothing’ on climate

10th June 2019

There's been a minor ding-dong in the UK with a leaked report from Chancellor Philip Hammond warning the 'cost' of meeting a proposed 'net zero'...

Turtle-ly awesome Green Jujitsu

7th June 2019

Today's 'green day' at our local primary school, so the younger two have gone dressed in green for an eco-themed day. Jimmy, middle child, has...

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