Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

Inspiring yourself on Sustainability

6th April 2018

The other day my eldest was watching the news with me and asked "Why isn't there a good news channel to cheer us up?" He...

Fear and Loathing in Sustainability

3rd April 2018

The Sustainability news falls into two polarised camps: 'climate impacts found to be worse than thought!' and 'renewable energy is booming!'. Why these might seem...

Don’t be a Sustainability Sheep

26th March 2018

I took most of Friday off to go and help Mrs K move office at Durham University. So I decided to cycle down and, on...

Decoupling or ‘recoupling’ carbon to growth?

23rd March 2018

Had a great meeting of the Green Thinkers last night, despite the fact I had managed not to read the book I had suggested, A...

Skewing choices to Sustainability

21st March 2018

As a foodie, I was very taken with the One Planet Plate project getting major restaurant chains to put one dish with strong sustainability credentials...

Sustainability in an age of unreason

19th March 2018

I was very taken with Nick Cohen's column in yesterday's Observer bemoaning the rise of conspiracy-theory-driven, narrowly nationalist, identity politics around the globe. Cohen rightly...

Stephen Hawking on Sustainability

16th March 2018

As a member of that huge club who only got a third of the way through "A Brief History of Time", the death of Stephen...

The Boxer vs Green Jujitsu

14th March 2018

Last week I was reading a newspaper article on simmering tensions in Northern Ireland (from whence I hail) where somebody quoted The Boxer by Simon...

Why people will behave Sustainably…

12th March 2018

There are two reasons why people will behave in a Sustainable way: Because they want to, or; Because they have to. There is no guarantee...

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