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At the ocean plastics event I was at last weekend, a chap in the audience seemed incredulous that other countries might be worse at dumping plastics in the sea than the UK. Actually we’re not bad, and getting better – beach surveys have shown a decline in plastic litter around the UK since the introduction […]

Yesterday we had a meeting with one of our newest clients about the Sustainability Strategy we are developing for/with them. Step 1 is to carry out a carbon footprint and my colleague Anna-Lisa Mills talked the client through all the decisions and data required in that footprinting process. Our client said they’d need to take […]

You might think that I’m exactly the kind of person who would drag the whole family to an event on ocean plastic pollution on a Saturday afternoon. However, I must admit I was a bit reticent to go to the Sea Life Workshop at the Star & Shadow, our local community cinema, as I really […]

I had a project meeting this morning with one of our associates, Anna-Lisa Mills of True North Sustainability. Once we had nailed down the key questions for our client meeting next week, we started putting the world to rights. One of the issues we discussed was how far we as a profession are quite conservative […]

… it has to be on their terms, not yours. Over the last couple of months I’ve had a couple of more-or-less polite run-ins with members of the Extinction Rebellion (XR) movement. I think they’re making the same mistake as almost every protest group of yore, using a message designed for people like them, rather […]

OK, it’s the first day back in the saddle here at Terra Infirma Towers and we’re raring to go to make Sustainability happen in 2019. There’s no two ways about it, the world is looking at Sustainability or bust – and we don’t do ‘bust’ around here. If you’re like me, you’ve got a to-do […]

Well, we’re just about to wind down for the festive period, so I thought I’d take my usual look back at the year we’re leaving behind us. And it’s been one of quite a bit of change here at Terra Infirma Towers. Here are some of the notable moments: We’ve brought on board some new […]

It’s very easy to watch the UNFCC’s annual COP get together with a sense of dread. The wheels of international negotiation turn excruciatingly slowly and getting agreement makes passing kidney stones feel like a doddle. Forward the process rumbles, but like a glacier, not a river. However, I am, as usual, optimistic. If you look […]

Being a Sustainability junkie, you’d have thought that my house would be heaving with the latest green technology. But last night I bought some LED bulbs from Sainsbury’s and, as I installed them, realised that these were the first in our house. Why? Simple. We’ve got CFL bulbs throughout the house and they haven’t needed […]

It’s been a rather depressing weekend for Sustainability, what with the US Government joining those beacons of liberty Russia and Saudi Arabia to downgrade the status of the latest IPCC report, and then Paris going up in flames, sparked by an eco-tax on petrol and diesel. Depressingly, some on the left in the UK, such […]