Awareness of climate change doesn’t change anything
We asked our kids whether they were interested in last week's children's climate strike and got a series of noncommittal grunts in reply. While we...
Beware pushing people out of their depth on Sustainability
Jun 14, 2018
Regular readers will know that my big personal challenge this year is to do a triathlon. Cycle: easy-peasy, run: OK, swim... argh! So I've been...
Why behavioural change for Sustainability is difficult (and how to make it easier)
May 21, 2018
Last week I was locking my bike outside one of my regular refuelling points when two Mobike employees appeared and started rounding up some of...
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...
Doing the right thing right.
Nov 13, 2017
"This is like building a loft extension in a house suffering from subsidence." is the rather brutal advice I had to give an organisation recently....
A Cycle-logical Summer
Aug 9, 2017
Just back from my second camping trip of the school holidays and the third this year – we're getting close to packing everything we need...
Embedding Sustainability into Capital Investment Decisions
Dec 16, 2016
Last Friday saw the final Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group meeting of 2016. We met at the wonderful Live Theatre in Newcastle and had a great...
Beware the Dilution of Sustainability…
Nov 30, 2016
During her leadership campaign in the summer, PM Theresa May promised to shake up corporate governance. She would give workers a place on company boards and...
Lowering Mental Barriers to Sustainability
Nov 28, 2016
I've spent the first part of this morning giving some advice to an entrepreneur who has an exciting green business idea but wanted some help...
Activate your sustainability programme!
Oct 3, 2016
At last week's Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group, I (re)used my 'monster truck' template (above). The analogy is that we are in the truck, transversing the...