Built it, and the carbon will come
I’m writing this in the modern extension of a house which is 125 years old today, more or less (the pic shows the extension going...
Sustainable Supply Chains start on the inside…
Jan 27, 2020
I'm busy planning the next meeting of the Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group on Friday. The topic is one we keep coming back to – making...
Book Review: Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro
Oct 14, 2019
In 1996, I visited the Auschwitz/Birkenau death camps in Poland. I was in two minds about going, with a nagging feeling that I was indulging...
Deconstructing our consumerism
Nov 30, 2018
As a qualified engineer, the good old British taxpayer spent a small fortune teaching me how to make things, but not a penny teaching me...
Squaring the Fracking vs Clean Growth circle
Oct 19, 2018
As many commentators have pointed out, the irony needle went off the dial this week when the UK Minister of State for Energy and Clean Growth,...
Who are the most crucial people in the future of our planet?
Oct 17, 2018
Regular readers will know I'm a big fan of using the 80:20 Rule for Sustainability. The rule encourages us to cut through the noise and...
I have no intention of going plastic-free, and nor should you
Feb 9, 2018
I cannot recall a single television programme in my lifetime which has had a bigger impact on public discourse than Blue Planet II (Cathy Come...
Book Review: Frugal Innovation – Doing More With Less
Dec 28, 2017
Mrs K picked up this 2015 book by Cambridge Judge Business School academics Navi Radjou and Jaideep Prabhu for me on the way home from a...
Pringles and Lucozade still don’t get it.
May 19, 2017
I love it when serious Sustainability issues hit the mainstream and yesterday's public shaming of Pringles and Lucozade Sport for difficult-to-recycle packaging across mainstream media...
Zero Hazardous Waste?
May 12, 2017
I had a meeting earlier with a Sustainability Manager earlier this week who is busy drafting a Sustainability Strategy for his company. His waste goal was...