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What does the election result mean for Sustainability?

12th June 2017

Well, that was weird, wasn't it? The winners lost and the losers won. The whopping Tory majority everybody expected (me included) didn't happen, and PM...

Evolve or die

7th June 2017

I had an interesting (off-the-record) chat with a contact in the energy sector yesterday. I was left with the clear impression that the fossil fuel...

A Call to Arms on a Sad Day

5th June 2017

It's only a couple of weeks since I wrote on the Manchester bombing and here we are again with blood on the streets of the...

The one question you need to ask of every Sustainability project

2nd June 2017

I was down in Manchester yesterday for a session with a client I haven't worked with for years. They had called me in 'to pick my...

Experience is the deepest learning

31st May 2017

I'm just back from our annual family half-term camping trip to Wooler in Northumberland. Every year for the last five years we've stayed at the...

Sustainability Strategy and Engagement: two sides to the same coin

26th May 2017

I had a meeting with a potential new client this morning. They want a sustainability strategy, but most of the conversation revolved about engagement of...

After Manchester: Fear and Optimism

24th May 2017

Yesterday morning I woke at stupid o'clock and, after half an hour lying in the dark, decided that I'd head to the spare room with...

Sustainability Is Personal

22nd May 2017

Yesterday we took the kids to the beach at St Mary's Island near Whitley Bay. We had lunch on the beach waiting for the tide...

Pringles and Lucozade still don’t get it.

19th May 2017

I love it when serious Sustainability issues hit the mainstream and yesterday's public shaming of Pringles and Lucozade Sport for difficult-to-recycle packaging across mainstream media...

UK Party Manifestos – how do they stack up on Sustainability?

18th May 2017

So all three of the big UK-wide parties have now published their manifestos for the coming General Election on June 8. Here's my take on...

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