David Cameron, Cognitive Dissonance and Clarity
F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said: The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the...
Green Academy 2013 Special Offer
Dec 11, 2012
2013 will be the third year of our Green Academy on-line training programme - our low-carbon, time-efficient, cost-effective way of boosting your personal performance as...
Are Quick Wins A Good Thing?
Dec 10, 2012
There's an old time management trope where a professor stands in front of his class and fills a jar full of rocks and asks is...
J&B Shows How to Enter and Thrive in the Green Sector
Dec 7, 2012
One of the speakers at last week's North East Recycling Forum (NERF) Conference was Vikki Jackson-Smith of J&B Recycling. I was delighted to hear how...
What We Can Learn from Wales’ Waste Win
Dec 5, 2012
Last Thursday I went to the North East Recycling Forum Annual Conference - one of the few events I intend as a punter. This partly...
Movember, Memes and, er, Mployee Engagement
Dec 3, 2012
This weekend, the air resonated with the sound of a million electric razors signalling the end of another Movember and a million temporary moustaches. These...
Getting the board on board for sustainability
Nov 30, 2012
Here's the latest in my Green Business Confidential podcast series. It's called "Getting the Board on Board for Sustainability" and it's about how to use...
Culture Change Tips from the Sustainability Masterminds
Nov 28, 2012
Last Thursday I hosted a meeting of my Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group. This is a small group of sustainability practitioners from leading organisations who get...
If it keeps on rainin’…
Nov 26, 2012
If it keeps on rainin', levee's gonna break... So sang Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy back in 1929 about the Great Mississippi Flood of...
Death by Poster
Nov 23, 2012
How many posters have you walked past in the last week? When did you last see a poster that made you stop and think...