Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

How successful will the refillable shopping model be?

5th June 2019

I've been following the story of the Waitrose 'plastic free' experiment in Oxford where consumers bring their own cartons for refills of loose goods such...

Nature ain’t cuddly and neither should we be

3rd June 2019

First day back in the saddle after our traditional half-term camping trip to Wooler, Northumberland. We tried to shake up the itinerary this year –...

To deliver Sustainability, we need to use Capitalism, not destroy it

24th May 2019

So Sustainability continues to ride high in the UK news, despite the wet blanket of Brexit smothering our politics for the last three years. Parliament...

The first climate change election flounders down under

20th May 2019

Depressing news from Australia as electors decide to return the decidedly high carbon Liberal-National coalition to Government, scuppering an opportunities to put one of the...

Targeted Sustainability interventions hit the spot…

17th May 2019

Here's a wee story from the local election campaign trail. I have two routes to school with the kids – along the road or along...

Packaging and the circular economy mindset

13th May 2019

There was an interesting piece in the press over the weekend featuring the Recycling Association doing their regular thing singling out the UK's worst packaging...

Sustainability in my local election campaign

7th May 2019

Long time readers will know that I've always shared my time time running Terra Infirma Ltd with being an elected Councillor on Newcastle City Council....

Don’t let the green-tape tail wag the Sustainability dog…

30th April 2019

I'm busy drafting a Sustainability Strategy for an autonomous division of a much larger organisation. We have had a bit of a dilemma as the...

My Behaviour Change Workshop for Edie

26th April 2019

It's been a crazy week. Starting with a public holiday where my phone rang and I was asked to do a 5 hour behavioural change...

Some thoughts on David Attenborough’s Climate Change – The Facts

24th April 2019

It was only at the weekend that I got to sit down and watch David Attenborough's Climate Change - The Facts on BBC, because, well.....

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