Who are the most crucial people in the future of our planet?
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...
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...