Can Capitalism save the planet? I see glimmers of hope
I'm fully aware that coincidences happen, and that buses often come in threes, but when clients in completely (and I mean completely) different sectors tell...
I don’t care what George Monbiot thinks…
Dec 7, 2020
One thing, amongst many others, that bugs me about the green movement, is its determination to stay firmly inside its comfort zone of a liberal-left...
Dragging Sustainability through the value chain
Nov 30, 2020
For the last few weeks I've been helping small and medium sized businesses 'build back better' from Covid-19 through the Small Business Leadership Programme. The...
Green Academy 2021 dates announced!
Nov 27, 2020
We're delighted to announce the dates for the 2021 Green Academy syllabus - our annual series of online training sessions bringing you the very best...
My bias, my bad…
Nov 25, 2020
At the weekend, I took part in unconscious bias training and, like Kylie, I can't get it out of my mind. Now, as a good,...
Business Ethics: it’s all about culture
Nov 23, 2020
While I've been updating the final Green Academy session of 2020, on Business Ethics, the UK's 'chumocracy' debate has been unfolding in the background. I...
We’ve come a long way, Boris
Nov 18, 2020
The climate-sceptic right has long had a frustrating tendency to come up with nonsense arguments that superficially sounds like common sense. In 2013, a certain...
On Climate Change, there’s being right, and there’s being heard…
Nov 16, 2020
Last Sunday, just before 11am, I put on the TV and sat with the kids and watched the wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph. I'm not...
Will Joe Biden save the planet?
Nov 9, 2020
Well, it's the week after the week before. I haven't quite recovered from US-election-fever, still waking at 3am wondering how the vote is going in...
Employees start to flex their muscles on Sustainability
Nov 4, 2020
For the last ten years or so I've been starting my workshops with the killer question "Why should your business take Sustainability seriously?" Then I...