Book Review: Value(s) by Mark Carney
When appointed Governor of the Bank of England in 2013, Mark Carney was described as the Rock Star of Bankers. Well, in Value(s), Carney has...
Book Review: Rummage by Emily Cockayne
Aug 24, 2020
I'm writing this blog in what appears to be the only house in our Victorian neighbourhood which managed to hold on to its wrought iron...
Book Review: Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro
Oct 14, 2019
In 1996, I visited the Auschwitz/Birkenau death camps in Poland. I was in two minds about going, with a nagging feeling that I was indulging...
No, Sustainability is not ‘a balance’
Aug 9, 2019
On Monday I griped about a Sustainability book I was sent for review. The sentence which made my heart drop was 'basically speaking, Sustainability is...
How to write a Sustainability book
Aug 5, 2019
I've written five books on business and Sustainability, all of which I'm pretty proud of, and I know first hand how much effort goes in...
Book Review: Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth
May 24, 2018
I haven't reviewed many Sustainability books on here of late, mainly because the few I have read recently have been terrible, some to the point...
Book Review: Frugal Innovation – Doing More With Less
Dec 28, 2017
Mrs K picked up this 2015 book by Cambridge Judge Business School academics Navi Radjou and Jaideep Prabhu for me on the way home from a...
Most influential Sustainability books for me
Dec 4, 2017
I saw a post on LinkedIn yesterday asking people for their top 5 Sustainability books. I quoted the following five as the most influential in...
Book Review: Global Sustainability by Mark Lefko
Feb 20, 2017
When I first read the bumf around Mark Lefko's new book Global Sustainability, I was a bit worried that it clashed with my own tome,...
Optimism, Pessimism and Sustainability
Jul 1, 2016
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill I was at a meeting of...