Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

The Circular Economy in ONE word…

23rd October 2017

...DEMAND. I grow ever more frustrated with Sustainability pronouncements on Twitter which have more in common with a sappy old 'inspirational' Athena poster than hard...

Making Sustainability Robust to Sudden Change

18th October 2017

What happens if your super-Sustainability-champion-of-a-CEO suddenly announces their retirement? How do you make sure your Sustainability programme survives the inevitable upheaval? It was questions like this...

The Joy of Composting

16th October 2017

On Saturday I started a garden job I love – plundering my multifarious (5!) compost facilities for brown gold. Normally I would do this in the...

Sustainability Bites 13/10/17

13th October 2017

Here's this week's edition of Sustainability Bites where I really struggle to find anything to criticise in the UK Government's Clean Growth Strategy, so I...

If the business case for Sustainability is so strong, why doesn’t it happen by default?

11th October 2017

This month's Ask Gareth considers an excellent question from Adam: why if the business case for Sustainability is so strong, does it not happen by...

The State of Sustainability in UK Politics

10th October 2017

As a political geek, I've been following the UK's party conference season as avidly as usual. My theory is that the content of the Leaders' speeches...

The gluten delusion, dodgy quotes and climate science

9th October 2017

I love my local hipster-ish coffee shop, but it annoys me that all the cakes are proudly marked 'gluten-free'. A couple of times, I've joshed...

Sustainability Bites 6/10/17

6th October 2017

Here's this week's edition of Sustainability Bites, covering the Sustainability elements of the Conservative Party Conference (more than you'd think), the latest green energy record...

When it comes to Sustainability, personal experience trumps facts

4th October 2017

Interesting story this week of columnist Peter Oborne, bone-dry right-of-centre journalist, has had a Damascene conversion to the cause of tackling climate change. “The press has...

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