Words of Wisdom: Engagement for Sustainability
This week's podcast is a summer special compilation of my favourite excerpts of our interviews to date on the theme of engagement. First up we...
Summer, summertime at Terra Infirma Towers
Aug 1, 2024
I've just spent three days bikepacking around Northumberland, my route taking in a number of prehistoric sites such as the Five Stones of Duddo (see...
3 Reasons Why Your Net Zero Strategy is Failing… and how to avoid them
Jul 26, 2024
In this week's episode of the pod, I look at the three reasons why Net Zero Strategies fail and how to avoid them. If you...
Beyond ticking boxes: sustainable procurement needs to stimulate innovation
Jul 24, 2024
Last week I went to a Sustainability event for suppliers to our local NHS Hospitals Trust (who I've done some work for over the years)....
Fare Ye Well, Low Carbon Joe – Biden’s Sustainability Legacy Must Live On
Jul 22, 2024
“Joe Biden’s legacy as the greatest president for climate and environmental action is etched in stone." Ben Jealous, Executive Director, Sierra Club "President Biden leaves...
Building trust in green marketing with Russ Avery
Jul 19, 2024
In this episode of the Net Zero Business Podcast, I talk to Russ Avery, co-founder of Avery & Brown, a marketing and branding agency specialising...
The green belt is about more than protecting green fields
Jul 17, 2024
There is a huge debate in the UK about how to kickstart housebuilding. The new Labour Government is proposing relaxing rules preventing building on the...
The Climate Blindspot: Why The Media (Largely) Ignores Climate Change
Jul 15, 2024
It was a real jolt to wake yesterday to videos of bullets whizzing past Donald Trump, miraculously only grazing him. Members of his audience were...
Shining a light on offsetting with Nic Alexander
Jul 12, 2024
Are offsets "a dangerous distraction from carbon reductions"? Are they morally abhorrent, akin to murderers buying 'indulgences' from the church in medieval Europe? Or are...
The ‘we’re emitting less carbon than X’ fallacy
Jul 10, 2024
One feature of the recent UK General Election was the Tory Government using the country's admirable decarbonisation achievements so far to attack opponents' proposals to...