Pringles and Lucozade still don’t get it.
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...
Are you a Sustainability egg, or a chicken?
Feb 10, 2017
I needed an example of user influence on a building's carbon emissions for my CIBSE talk on Tuesday night. I had a nagging feeling that...
Sustainability: Engineering in the Real World
Sep 28, 2016
Yesterday I was facilitating a workshop for the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Durham University. The purpose was to find ways to further embed Sustainability...
Urban Sustainability in Walthamstow
Jun 29, 2016
I'm down in North East London for a couple of days learning about the 'mini-Holland' project in Walthamstow – a substantial investment in making suburban...
The perversity of low mileage…
Jun 10, 2016
Gnnyuh. I'm just off the phone to our garage. Our car battery has run flat a couple of times in the last few months, but...
Making Sustainability the Easy Path to Take
Jun 22, 2015
I loved this picture when I saw it on LinkedIn last week (I don't know who to credit it to, I'm afraid). It sums up...
Staying one step ahead of legislation
Jun 12, 2015
Last Friday saw the 11th meeting of the Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group – the small group of sustainability managers from large organisations I facilitate. We...
How Is ISO14001 Changing? Interview with Marek Bidwell
Oct 3, 2014
In this very special edition of Ask Gareth, I get to ask the questions! I have been asked about the forthcoming changes to ISO14001, and to...
Who has the power to green the supply chain?
Jun 17, 2013
One of the issues we explored in our recent Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group meeting on supply chains was who in the organisation has the power...