Stephen Hester, The Bonus and CSR
The Stephen Hester Bonus saga reads like a really good episode of The West Wing - or indeed my current favourite political drama, Borgen. The...
Green Business Confidential 12: Integrate, Integrate, Integrate
Jan 27, 2012
Here's the latest in my Green Business Confidential podcast series. It's called "Integrate, Integrate, Integrate" which is probably the most important word in green business,...
CSR becomes the political zeitgeist
Jan 25, 2012
All of a sudden corporate social responsibility has been thrust into the UK political spotlight. The three major party leaders have spent the last few...
What Kodak’s demise tells us about cleantech
Jan 23, 2012
Poor Kodak. You couldn't make it up. A classic brand invents a great new technology (digital photography) but decides it would cannibalise their own products,...
There’s no such thing as too much renewable energy
Jan 20, 2012
There were stories in the press this month about £1.2m worth of 'constraint payments' made to Scottish wind farms over Christmas to not generate electricity...
Enabling your customers to be more sustainable pt2
Jan 18, 2012
The BusinessGreen webcast on customer behaviour went really well on Monday. The recorded version will be online soon and I'll put the link in the...
Enabling your customers to be more sustainable pt1
Jan 16, 2012
I'm writing this on the East Coast Mainline, charging across the frozen fields of eastern England as the sun casts various tints of orange across...
Green Executive Book Launch Video
Jan 13, 2012
Here's the video of my book launch for The Green Executive back in June. Given the diverse audience, I focus on the lessons I learnt...
Putting the customer first
Jan 11, 2012
There's disappointing news from the world of low emission vehicles (LEVs) - while sales of all cars were up 10% last year in the US,...
Resilience
Jan 9, 2012
Just this weekend, my partner and I were chatting about the UK petrol protests of 2000 (it's laugh a minute in our house sometimes...). At...