Sustainability messaging lessons from the Conga of Doom
I actually feel a wee bit sorry for the poor soul who organised the now-infamous VE Day conga (above). Yes, they broke the rules and...
Will Sustainability be the ‘new normal’ post-pandemic?
May 5, 2020
There's an old saying 'don't let a crisis go to waste' and there are plenty of voices calling for the current disruption to be used...
Who remembers Local Agenda 21?
Apr 28, 2020
On Sunday morning, during my Government sanctioned outing to the shop, I found an A4 sheet of paper crudely pasted to a noticeboard in our...
Should we stop talking about a climate emergency/crisis?
Apr 21, 2020
I've been enjoying my Thursday morning Sustainability Professional Zoom chats hosted by Penny Walker and Susannah Roffe. At last week's meeting, I posited the question: given...
Why we will never win the argument on climate change
Apr 16, 2020
Sometimes a diagram sums up a whole load of messy thoughts and when I saw the graph below on what will inevitably happen when we...
Doing the right thing (and being seen to do the right thing)
Apr 6, 2020
I’m sure many of us are having our hearts warmed by the many positive actions we see in these dark days. The volunteers taking supplies...
We should be taking it easy on ourselves…
Mar 30, 2020
It was my birthday yesterday and Mrs K's planned birthday treat of a night away from the kids at a hotel with red squirrels in...
School of Mum & Dad, week 1
Mar 27, 2020
Like many parents around the globe, Mrs K and I have been landed with the job of educating our brood ourselves. And what a week....
When push comes to nudge – behaviour change lessons from social distancing
Mar 24, 2020
Well, that escalated quickly. From a simple message of “wash your hands” and “stay inside if you have a cough/fever”, now everything is closed, our...
Terra Infirma: We’re open for business
Mar 16, 2020
These are undoubtedly the strangest times I have lived through and the Covid-19 outbreak will undoubtedly be disruptive to Terra Infirma as well as our...