The Rules of the Game – but whose rules?
At the weekend I finished reading The Secret Race by Tyler Hamilton - the coruscating inside story of the doping scandal that rocked the cycling...
The easy road to employee engagement for sustainability
Jan 16, 2015
OK, cards on the table time. I am a very frustrated man. Frustrated because employee engagement/behavioural change is critically important; Frustrated because everybody says that...
Nurse your employee engagement with combined benefits
Jan 14, 2015
As part of a piece of work for one of our NHS clients, I've been working my way through the organisation's latest sustainability strategy documents. I...
Why I won’t be applying to be a Chartered Environmentalist
Jan 12, 2015
The IMechE is 'relaunching' (always a worrying phrase) their CEnv, or Chartered Environmentalist, qualification this week in response to "spectacular growth" in clean tech, renewable...
Do you really want to make sustainability everybody’s responsibility?
Jan 9, 2015
Interesting piece in Guardian Sustainable Business yesterday, predicting that 2015 would be the year when businesses made sustainability part of everybody's job description. On first...
Cut the Green Crap!
Jan 7, 2015
There's far too much green crap around. I'm not talking about the clean energy subsidies that PM David Cameron was (allegedly) referring to using these words....
Here’s to a sustainable 2015!
Jan 5, 2015
Happy New Year everyone! It's the traditional time to set ourselves goals for the year ahead (why we pick the dark, dank days of January...
Merry Christmas to all our readers!
Dec 22, 2014
And so it comes to my last blog post of 2014. It's been an interesting year here at Terra Infirma Towers, and here are some...
Some consistency please, Mr Cameron
Dec 19, 2014
As a good liberal, I'm always keen to give people the benefit of the doubt. When newly installed Prime Minister David Cameron promised back in...
The Sustainability Revolution Starts Here!
Dec 17, 2014
My latest book, Accelerating Sustainability using the 80/20 Rule, is out this week! It was written to change the way we address sustainability issues. As...