Why Stretch Targets Work – in Life or Sustainability
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...
The Future of Transport?
Mar 21, 2022
Last week I finally got hold of my new mode of transport – a Tern GSD cargobike. It’s the same length as a normal bike,...
How many pairs of pants are Sustainable?
Mar 14, 2022
Last summer, I criticised the Guardian for an article that urged its readers to do 10 things to do to save the planet, none of...
Ukraine and why we need to end the age of oil
Feb 28, 2022
About 18 years ago, Mrs K and I took the Trans-Siberian railway across Russia (technically, it was the Trans-Mongolian we rode). We had a wonderfully...