The risk of oil price rises
Very interesting speech this week by John B Hess of oil exploration company Hess Corporation at the somewhat unsubtly titled "Oil and Money" conference in...
Welcome to the new Terra Infirma website!
Oct 21, 2009
I'm very pleased with the new site - it should make finding information much easier than the old one. Please let me know if you...
Tweak to Sustainability Maturity Model
Oct 20, 2009
Thanks for everyone who fed back on the Terra Infirma Sustainability Maturity Model. All of it was positive and one view I've taken on board...
Telling Tales
Oct 19, 2009
Story-telling is a powerful way of creating a compelling vision for the future. When doing backcasting exercises in strategy workshops, I used to get participants...
BTW…
Oct 16, 2009
I've let the techies loose on the workings behind this blog to link it to the new website so if it suddenly sto;-)
Business Opportunities in Climate Change Adaptation
Oct 16, 2009
I was running a CSR workshop with a major international engineering firm yesterday. Given the traditional engineers' reactive (and sometimes reactionary) approach to such 'soft...
A Bumpy Road to Copenhagen… does it matter?
Oct 14, 2009
There's an awful lot of expectation on the COP15 climate change talks at Copenhagen in December. The big carbon emitters have been circling each other...
Forthcoming new arrivals…
Oct 12, 2009
I'm taking break from doing the final proof edits on The Three Secrets of Green Business. This is extraordinarily tedious, but I have found one...
How mature is your sustainability programme?
Oct 8, 2009
I've developed this model for the maturity of sustainability programmes from nada to a fully integrated programme. You can download a bigger version from the...
Personal Journeys
Oct 6, 2009
I'm writing this on the train back to Newcastle, having left a rather unseasonally sticky London behind me. I'm smiling to myself at one of...