Interview with Sean Axon, Global Sustainability Director, Johnson Matthey plc
Precious metals giant Johnson Matthey plc is one of those huge companies you may never have heard of, but if you have a conventional car...
Tesla: The Apple of Greentech
Oct 28, 2013
Remember what smartphones were like before the iPhone? Fiddly keyboards, nests of menus and terrible web navigation. Then along came Steve Job's little shiny slab...
Green: The New Normal
Oct 25, 2013
If I told you about a country where, last quarter, more than a third of all electricity was generated from low carbon sources, which one...
Interview with Ramon Arratia, Interface
Oct 23, 2013
Ramon Arratia is a Sustainability Director at carpet and floor covering giant InterfaceFLOR, reknowned as true sustainability front-runners. Ramon is a regular speaker on sustainability...
Can you account for unknown unknowns in sustainability?
Oct 21, 2013
In 2002, while trying to justify the forthcoming war with Iraq, United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld came out with the infamous quote: "There are...
The Quiet Green Revolution
Oct 18, 2013
Yesterday I opened the BigEcoShow at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland. My address was entitled "The Quiet Green Revolution" - reflecting on the scale...
The 80:20 Rule and Sustainability
Oct 16, 2013
Historical factoid klaxon: the 80:20 rule, or Pareto Principle, was named after Vilfredo Pareto, who observed in 1906 that 80% of the land in Italy was...
Interview with Stephen Weldon, CSR Manager of Greggs plc
Oct 14, 2013
I recently carried out a number of interviews with top CSR/Sustainability Managers for a couple of book projects I am working on. As I am...
Whose Footprint Are You Part Of?
Oct 11, 2013
On Monday, I spoke at the inaugural Preferred Supplier event at the Design Centre in Gateshead. My speech was entitled "Whose footprint are you...
The ‘cost of living crisis’ is ecological
Oct 9, 2013
The UK's political conference season was dominated by a debate over the 'cost of living crisis'. Labour leader Ed Miliband blamed this on a lack...