Terra Infirma is six years old today!

Six years. Blimey. Sometimes it feels like just yesterday that I invested the grand sum of £300.00 in some self-designed stationery and a (self-designed) website and declared the company open for business – other times it feels like another age.

And the last year has been another great one for the company despite the constant backdrop of economic doom-mongering. We are now firmly planted in the FTSE100 zone, continuing to work with clients like Johnson Matthey plc and BAE Systems plc, another two new FTSE100 clients in the project start-up phase, and other big names like the BBC and the NHS. The vast bulk of this work has related to culture change for sustainability.

Our on-line Green Academy continues and now has its own webpages and we continue to get a wide range of participants from micro-businesses up to corporate giants.

One innovation this year has been the Corporate Sustainability Mastermind (CoSM) Group – a small group of senior sustainability practitioners from top companies getting together every quarter for a facilitated exploration of the challenges that they face. I’ve not been making a big song and dance about CoSM as we are deliberately trying to keep the numbers low, but you can see my notes from the inaugural May meeting here.

And, while I’m not publishing a book this year, my first short e-book is due out in the Autumn. Its provisional title is “Green Jujitsu: The Smart Way to Embed Sustainability into Your Organisation”. Needless to say you’ll hear plenty about it when it’s released.

So, it just leaves me to thank all our clients, partners, friends, followers, subscribers and workshop participants for another great year. I’m looking forward to meeting more of you (online or offline), so don’t ever be afraid to come and say hello!

All the best,

Gareth