Sustainability and Small Business with Jasper Steinhausen
So, it's September and the Net Zero Business Podcast is back with a brand new interview, and it's a corker! Jasper Steinhausen, author of Making...
What does zero impact on the environment really mean?
Mar 20, 2024
Yesterday I was at an ESG event when a delegate asked whether Net Zero meant zero people? Not being on the platform, I didn't get...
Adieu to the disposable vape, you won’t be missed
Jan 29, 2024
We've now got to the stage of parenting where all three kids make their own way to school, erasing the natural boundary between breakfast and...
Elisa Gasperini of Ahlsell on Net Zero/SBTs, circular economy and authenticity
Dec 8, 2023
Elisa Gasperini, Head of Sustainability at huge Nordic construction suppliers Ahlsell, talks about her own Sustainability journey, the benefits of Science-based Targets in addition to...
Stop dissing recycling!
Oct 26, 2021
Yesterday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson bullishly overrode the opinions of the expert sitting next to him and told a group of schoolkids that recycling "doesn't...
Does ‘upcycling’ actually exist?
Jun 17, 2021
Every time I hear or read a reference to 'upcycling', my instinctive response is "Really?" The word is often used by chi-chi second hand furniture...
Making Sustainability Easy (pt 357)
Apr 26, 2021
I'm still up to my eyeballs in the local election campaign. One of the issues we are campaigning on is the very poor recycling system...
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...
School of Mum & Dad, week 1
Mar 27, 2020
Like many parents around the globe, Mrs K and I have been landed with the job of educating our brood ourselves. And what a week....
Paul Polman on Business & Sustainability
Feb 13, 2020
On Tuesday, I was invited to listen to Paul Polman, who earned his Sustainability Leader spurs as Unilever CEO, speak at the Newcastle Business School...