Accounting for Sustainability Properly
A client coaching session last week focussed on investment appraisal and how it can block sustainability progress – in this case investment in renewables. As...
The Business Case for A Sustainable Supply Chain
Dec 4, 2013
No matter what element of a client's sustainability programme I am dealing with, my first move is always to pin down the business case for...
An Understanding of Waste
Oct 17, 2012
On Monday I ran a waste awareness session with one of my large clients' employees. I used a range of green jujitsu techniques to properly...
7 Pathetic Excuses for Doing Nothing On Corporate Responsibility
Mar 7, 2012
1. We're too small. No you are not. You are never too small. Solo practitioners may be able to duck many of the pressures that...
The Price of Doing Nothing
Oct 12, 2011
So why bother? There's a recession on, times are tight, people are cautious. Why not sit it out and deal with all this green stuff...
When the going gets tough…
Jul 20, 2011
Regular readers will know that three days a week I go for a run along the Ouseburn river valley up into Jesmond Dene and back...
When the going gets tough…
Nov 22, 2010
You have to be living on the planet Zog not to notice we are at a time of great economic uncertainty - with whole economies...
The Opportunities Pyramid
Feb 26, 2010
I've developed the above model to communicate the levels of benefit that "going green" can deliver. Underpinning the whole thing is compliance - if you...
Indirect benefits outweigh cost savings for BT by a long, long way
Jan 25, 2010
I was doing some background research on BT's sustainability activity for the Green Executive and the Service Network talk I'm giving in two week's time....
There’s more to it than money…
Sep 7, 2009
Last Friday I was editing the nine interviews I have carried out with CSR/environment executives for book#2, The Green Executive. Reading through all nine in...