Whose fault is climate change?
This week, a tweet appeared on my timeline saying "Capitalism created climate change, only socialism can fix it!" I fired back with the Guardian research...
How can your business help deliver the 15 Minute City?
Sep 21, 2020
More than half of the world's population live in cities, predicted to grow to two thirds by 2050. Therefore much of the debate on Sustainability...
Plastics recycling *isn’t* a scam…
Sep 16, 2020
Oh dear. Nothing like a journalist who doesn't understand statistics– or deliberately misunderstands them in search of a cheap headline. Arwa Mahdawi, writing in today's...
Sustainability must scale
Sep 14, 2020
I’m writing this in a half-asleep, constantly hungry state as I completed my big personal challenge for this year yesterday: riding the C2C cycle route...
Talking Sustainability? Who are you talking to?
Sep 7, 2020
Every time I read a Sustainability document, I ask myself "who is this for?" If I'm drafting a Sustainability Strategy, I always ask my client...
Is working from home good or evil?
Sep 1, 2020
Every morning I climb the short steep hill outside our house to Sid's Corner Shop for a paper and some groceries. Sid's is a survivor...
Book Review: Rummage by Emily Cockayne
Aug 24, 2020
I'm writing this blog in what appears to be the only house in our Victorian neighbourhood which managed to hold on to its wrought iron...
Post-holiday Random Sustainability Musings
Aug 17, 2020
Just back at my desk after 10 days 'down South' camping/airbnb-ing and visiting friends/relatives. Here are a few of the thoughts that occurred to me...
Ch-ch-ch-changes!
Aug 4, 2020
Man, change is hard. It's difficult enough when working with organisations, where there's a hierarchy and job descriptions and personal objectives and the risk of...
14 years of Sustainability at Terra Infirma
Jul 30, 2020
This weekend sees the 14 anniversary of the founding of my company, Terra Infirma. It's a bit of an arbitrary date as I'd planned to...