One person’s greenwashing is another’s jolly good thing (and vice versa)
I'm an early waker, but not so much of an early riser these days, so when I do wake, I tend put on the BBC...
You can’t always get what you want, but if you try, sometimes…
Jun 27, 2022
At the weekend, I met up with a group of school friends to go and watch the Rolling Stones at Hyde Park (they were brilliant)....
Book Review: Net Zero: How we stop causing climate change by Dieter Helm
Jun 20, 2022
I haven't read a Sustainability book for some time, so when my partner handed me a copy of Dieter Helm's Net Zero at an Alpkit...
Why Stretch Targets Work – in Life or Sustainability
Jun 13, 2022
This morning, I am extremely tired. At 4:15am on Saturday, I was lined up in Rockliffe, Scotland with 299 others to take part in the...
Sustainability musings from the West Coast of Scotland
Jun 6, 2022
I'm busy wading through a wall of e-mails following a wonderfully relaxing half-term holiday on the Craignish peninsula. Our rented old farmhouse overlooked an overlapping...
The Australian Election: A New (Climate) Hope?
May 23, 2022
I first became aware of the change in political leadership in Australia when the BBC played a clip of incoming PM Anthony Albanese (right) pledging...
Sustainability Engagement: Bottom up or top down?
May 16, 2022
In almost every sustainability strategy project I do, I find that the default client assumption is engagement is something that is done with front line...
Sustainability thoughts from the UK Local Elections
May 9, 2022
I suppose you could also call this blog "why I haven't blogged for goodness knows how many weeks." Regular readers will know that I'm a...
How frequently should you collect Sustainability data?
Apr 12, 2022
We live in an age of realtime data. Many of us wear a smartwatch counting our steps (forward and upward), monitoring our heart rate and...
The *only* way to get boardroom buy-in for Sustainability
Apr 4, 2022
In the last year I've supported the development of Sustainability Strategies for two very similar umbrella organisations. The main difference between the two is that...