Sustainability Champions, Subsidy Junkies and Green Canoeing
I gave two keynote speeches this week: one at The Value of Sustainability organised by Newcastle University Business School and TADEA, the other at the...
Try out Green Academy
Jun 27, 2012
You may have seen or heard about our Green Academy on-line training sessions and wondered if it would work for you. Well here's an opportunity...
Blame it on Rio+20: Consensus or Competition?
Jun 25, 2012
So the Rio+20 conference chugged to its almost inevitable anticlimax. The NGOs and green-friendly press are looking for villains - missing big name leaders, lack...
The Biggest Barrier to Sustainability
Jun 22, 2012
Here's the latest in my Green Business Confidential podcast series. It's called "The Biggest Barrier to Sustainability" and you'll have to listen to find out...
Why Rio+20 and the G20 should be one meeting
Jun 20, 2012
Two big global jamborees at the same time: Rio+20 trying save the planet and the G20 in Mexico trying to save the global economy. Really...
Why the #EndFossilFuelSubsidies campaign is so clever
Jun 19, 2012
Robert Redford:"We should not be subsidizing the destruction of our planet" huff.to/L8J85X #endfossilfuelsubsidies — HuffPost Green (@HuffPostGreen) June 18, 2012 For over 24 hour...
From Total Football to Total Sustainability
Jun 18, 2012
Oh, how the mighty fall! The Dutch national football team limped out of Euro 2012 last night without a point to their name. I was disappointed...
Why Sustainability Programmes Fail
Jun 15, 2012
I diagnose the most common causes of failure of sustainability programmes as: No leadership: leadership is critical to any successful corporate transformation programme and, given...
Are we on the cusp of Energy 2.0?
Jun 13, 2012
The Facebook/Twitter/Flickr/YouTube/Wordpress revolution of the last 5-7 years has famously been dubbed Web 2.0. Web 1.0 was like a huge electronic catalogue of information to...
Compost, Natural Cycles and the Circular Economy
Jun 11, 2012
Here's a grubby little secret - shhh - don't tell anyone - but I'm a closet compost fanatic. At last count I operate at least...