Opening your mind to Sustainability
I'm just updating the presentation for Wednesday's Green Academy webinar: 12 Winning Sustainability Mindsets which is my favourite of the year. I am increasingly convinced...
Sustainability: it’s not so much what you start doing…
Sep 27, 2021
Followers of my Twitter feed will know that I regularly highlight the Sustainability elements of the UK Parliament's weekly Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs). I do...
Looks like we’re getting serious about Sustainability
Sep 20, 2021
When I first set up Terra Infirma I was a bit of a jack of all trades, but over time I started to pitch the...
When green ideology hits reality… again.
Sep 13, 2021
There are reports this morning of scuffles between Insulate Britain climate protesters, who had blocked a roundabout on the M25, and drivers trying to get...
Save us from Sustainability fads…
Sep 6, 2021
I remember reading an article entitled "We Won't Achieve Sustainability without Mindfulness." Over the next few weeks, many more appeared as green think pieces. Now,...
The #1 problem facing green entrepreneurs…
Aug 30, 2021
A few days ago, I had a meeting with Robert Campbell, one of the founders of ZMove, a green delivery company, ZMove uses e-cargo bikes...
Who is to blame for climate change?
Aug 23, 2021
During my holiday, the Guardian published an article on what individuals could do to tackle the climate crisis. Almost every point was to lobby somebody...
A couple of weeks in the Yorkshire Dales
Aug 16, 2021
I'm back at Terra Infirma Towers after a two week family holiday in Wensleydale, Yorkshire, staying in a stone ex-farmhouse near Hawes just 75 miles...
Sharma has to learn to say “No.”
Aug 10, 2021
As we head towards the delayed COP26 climate change conference in November, the press seems to be leading on many slightly tangential issues - the...
Book Review: Value(s) by Mark Carney
Aug 4, 2021
When appointed Governor of the Bank of England in 2013, Mark Carney was described as the Rock Star of Bankers. Well, in Value(s), Carney has...