Delivering Sustainability in the Face of Despair
A week after the 9/11 attacks in the US, I attended a community environmental engagement workshop in a Teesside town. I can't remember exactly why...
Should we stop talking about a climate emergency/crisis?
Apr 21, 2020
I've been enjoying my Thursday morning Sustainability Professional Zoom chats hosted by Penny Walker and Susannah Roffe. At last week's meeting, I posited the question: given...
Did Earth Hour do it for you?
Mar 25, 2013
Did you switch your lights off for Earth Hour on Saturday night? Did sitting in the dark for an hour make you feel better? Or...
Getting the message right, first time, everytime
Mar 28, 2012
In one of my client workshops, a manufacturing operative, straight off the factory floor and still wearing his dirty overalls, put it bluntly: “We’ve got...
Shock Tactics Can Backfire
Nov 14, 2011
During one of my recent sessions on culture change for sustainability, a very earnest young lady asked me about the use of shock tactics to...
Storytelling
Jul 18, 2011
I was delighted at the weekend to be sent this amazing picture by Melvin Redeker of him reading The Green Executive while on a kayaking...
Don't preach to the choir
Apr 26, 2011
Amongst political interweb types is a phenomenon known as the 'echo chamber'. This is where a tribe of people get very excited tweeting, blogging and...
Are brands really bad for the planet?
Apr 20, 2011
I'm not a mainstream environmentalist for one very good reason - like any tribe, you need to sign up to a set of beliefs that...
Show, don't tell
Jan 10, 2011
There was an interesting story in the Daily Mail (yes, really) over the summer. Its science editor, a climate change sceptic, visited Greenland, saw the scale...
Symbolism Matters
Oct 11, 2010
I'm very heartened by the news that President Obama is going to re-install solar panels on the White House, a whole quarter of a century...
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