Embedding Sustainability is a Banker
Fascinating article in this week's Economist, traditionally no friend of sustainability, about investing in low carbon firms. They quote research by BlackRock who found that...
Pick your climate gurus with care
Sep 12, 2016
My regular paper is The Guardian, somewhat under sufferance ever since my previous favourite The Independent started to shrink in size and quality about a decade...
Greenwash of the Week
Sep 9, 2016
You would have to have a very strange existence if your whole footprint was "greatly reduced" and all your waste was eradicated simply by changing from...
Can Big Data & AI deliver Sustainability?
Sep 7, 2016
The latest edition of Ask Gareth considers how the hot topics of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence can interact with the Sustainability Agenda. Is the hype...
Interaction – the spice of Sustainability
Sep 5, 2016
Yesterday the family headed up to the National Trust property of Wallington Hall in Northumberland – me on my bike, the rest by car. We've been...
Why I’m an Eco-optimist
Sep 2, 2016
There's an old joke: An optimist says the glass is half full, A pessimist says the glass if half empty, An engineer says the glass...
Clean power: past and future
Aug 30, 2016
We've just had a wonderful Bank Holiday weekend chez Kane - taking in art, cyclocross, but most impressively, the Tall Ships Regatta at Blyth Northumberland. The...
Virtue Signalling: an insidious form of greenwash
Aug 25, 2016
I've always hated those pious "Save the planet: don't print this e-mail" statements in people's e-mail signature blocks. Why? Because it is blatant 'virtue signalling'...
Do you want Sustainability or not? Lessons from the Olympics
Aug 22, 2016
The story has been told many times, but it's a good one if you're a Brit. Thoroughly embarrassed by GB's pathetic single-gold-medal showing at the...
There’s no talking to some people (about the environment)
Aug 18, 2016
Two things made me smile this week. First, Prof Brian Cox's face as he realised what level of idiocy he was up against when debating...