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Things that hack me off about Sustainability #367

3rd September 2019

First real day back at work after a summer of short breaks, DIY, part-work/part-staycation. Speaking of which, I can't stand the way the word 'staycation'...

Let’s not be hypocritical on forests

28th August 2019

The Amazon burning story has been horrific ecologically, but fascinating politically. I'm a politics geek, but I can't recall the threat of trade sanctions ever...

Sustainability is a goal, not a cult

23rd August 2019

Zoe Williams in today's Guardian has a pop at those criticising Prince Harry and Meghan for lecturing us on climate change and then jumping in...

Is Greta Thunberg’s odyssey really the climate message we want to send?

19th August 2019

I have utmost respect for Greta Thunberg, the teenage Swedish climate activist. The way she has serenely raised the issue of climate change and braved...

Beelines: a lovely example of Green Jujitsu

12th August 2019

Recently, I've been looking enviously at the Manchester Beelines project to bring together 1000 miles of cycle routes across the Greater Manchester area. While the...

No, Sustainability is not ‘a balance’

9th August 2019

On Monday I griped about a Sustainability book I was sent for review. The sentence which made my heart drop was 'basically speaking, Sustainability is...

How to write a Sustainability book

5th August 2019

I've written five books on business and Sustainability, all of which I'm pretty proud of, and I know first hand how much effort goes in...

Whither Sustainability under Boris?

26th July 2019

And so it came to pass that Boris Johnson took up the position he craved as a young boy, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom...

Economic growth in a finite world – not as daft as it sounds

22nd July 2019

One line which is often trotted out by green activists, most recently by the rather wonderful Greta Thunberg, is "you can't have economic growth in...

Sustainability as a moonshot?

19th July 2019

As we wallow in moon-landing nostalgia (fake nostalgia in my case, I was minus two years old at the time, but hey...), it reminded me...

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