Does ‘upcycling’ actually exist?
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...
A 2020 Vision for Sustainability
Jan 3, 2020
Happy New Year, everybody! For Sustainability people, 2020 is a bit like when we hit 1984 and the Western World wasn't run by oppressive, manipulative...
Economic growth in a finite world – not as daft as it sounds
Jul 22, 2019
One line which is often trotted out by green activists, most recently by the rather wonderful Greta Thunberg, is "you can't have economic growth in...
How successful will the refillable shopping model be?
Jun 5, 2019
I've been following the story of the Waitrose 'plastic free' experiment in Oxford where consumers bring their own cartons for refills of loose goods such...
Packaging and the circular economy mindset
May 13, 2019
There was an interesting piece in the press over the weekend featuring the Recycling Association doing their regular thing singling out the UK's worst packaging...
Reduce, Reuse, Re… uh.
Apr 4, 2019
Twice recently we have had domestic appliances fail. Our dishwasher appears to have been attacked by a rat which chewed through a seal leading to...