Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

It’s a nice idea, but it will never work…

11th September 2017

Those words were (allegedly) said by the Head of Cambridge University's Engineering Department to a young Frank Whittle when the latter presented a new idea...

I never learn!

8th September 2017

I really have tried to ditch the habit of responding to those who are way beyond redemption when it comes to Sustainability. One such chap...

The biggest truth in Sustainability…

6th September 2017

On Monday I spent a total of 7 hours going to and from Birmingham by train for a project close presentation to a client. This...

Sustainability Bites Ep1: Harvey & Climate Change

4th September 2017

Here's the pilot episode of a new series of short, sharp, lo-fi Sustainability snippets I've decided to launch. I've called it Sustainability Bites as a....

Sustainability is becoming ‘The New Normal’

1st September 2017

Last week I chuckled at a typical silly season column in the i newspaper about Ford offering a scrappage scheme for older models of their cars....

Anybody can do Sustainability

29th August 2017

My summer of cycle action continued yesterday with another first – I entered a race. A proper race with entry fees, commissionaires, rules, closed roads...

Some Sustainability ideas just weren’t meant to happen…

25th August 2017

One of my (many) pet hates in Sustainability is people and organisations trying desperately to make a trendy concept work when all the evidence points...

Demand Sustainability – it’s the only way

21st August 2017

We've had a steady stream of pro-electric vehicle news stories this summer – R&D investment, supplier pledges, far off in the future pledges to ban petrol/diesel...

Food for thought or gut instinct?

16th August 2017

I really enjoyed the piece in last week's Guardian pricking the balloon of the 'clean eating' movement whose proponents claim that modern life is killing...

Ignore Lawson et al, get on with the job in hand

14th August 2017

You can't have missed the furore. Al Gore was touring the British media last week promoting his new climate change movie, An Inconvenient Sequel. After...

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