Let’s banish the inner priesthood of sustainability
Like it or not, the human race has a tendency towards tribalism - we can see that in a long history of brutal ethnic wars...
Sustainability: It’s not us against them
Sep 26, 2014
I've been blogging a lot about the politics of sustainability recently. As a part-time politician myself, I know that politics should be a battle of...
David Cameron shows some leg on climate change (at long last)
Sep 24, 2014
UK Prime Minister David Cameron finally gave a speech on climate change yesterday at the UN's Climate Summit in New York. We've been waiting a...
Evidence Rules!
Sep 22, 2014
A few days ago I postulated 5 rules of the new vein of pragmatic environmentalist. Number 2 was "Evidence Rules". Like many, I have spent...
Can you generate Scottish Referendum levels of enthusiasm for sustainability?
Sep 19, 2014
So it's the morning after the night before and, as broadly expected, Scotland voted to stay in the UK with the rest of us. But...
The old sustainability vs growth chestnut gets another roasting
Sep 17, 2014
Two interesting interventions caught my eye this week: First of all we had Naomi Klein, of No Logo fame, wading into the climate change debate...
Everybody is an Environmentalist
Sep 15, 2014
Last week, I posited five rules for Pragmatic Environmentalism. Over the next couple of weeks I'm going to expand on/refine this a little to explain...
The (Draft) Rules of Pragmatic Environmentalism
Sep 12, 2014
I was called a hypocrite last week. Not to my face, the individual is too cowardly to look me in the eye. No, he took...
What if employees won’t engage in sustainability?
Sep 10, 2014
In this edition of Ask Gareth, I tackle the nightmare scenario when employees refuse to engage in sustainability. The answer, naturally, is Green Jujitsu! You...
Fashion kills sustainability
Sep 8, 2014
For a newspaper from the Guardian stable that prides itself on its approach to sustainability, I winced when I read this in a Observer article on...