Digging an ethical hole…
Interesting example from Daniel Kahneman's excellent psychology book, Thinking, Fast & Slow: A hardware store has been selling snow shovels for $15. The morning after...
Circular Economics 101
May 22, 2015
Yesterday I was at the North East Recycling Forum in Darlington. NERF is one of the very few green events I attend as a punter as...
The Oil Industry: Resurgence or Death Throes?
Dec 15, 2014
Like many, I've been completely gobsmacked by the plummeting oil price - down from over $100 a barrel at the start of the year to...
The old sustainability vs growth chestnut gets another roasting
Sep 17, 2014
Two interesting interventions caught my eye this week: First of all we had Naomi Klein, of No Logo fame, wading into the climate change debate...
The ‘cost of living crisis’ is ecological
Oct 9, 2013
The UK's political conference season was dominated by a debate over the 'cost of living crisis'. Labour leader Ed Miliband blamed this on a lack...
Does big = bad?
Sep 9, 2013
Last Thursday I had a fantastic night's debate at the Green Thinkers book club run by my friend Marek Bidwell. Up for discussion was one...
Are You Creating Wealth or Creating Value?
Aug 19, 2013
At the risk of sounding like a Mark Carney fanboy (yep, second blog in a week), the brand shiny new Governor of the Bank of...
Zero Hours and CSR
Aug 5, 2013
Another week, another corporate responsibility issue hits the headlines. This time its the number of workers (up to a million) that are on 'zero-hours' contracts...
The Lesson from the Green Deal…
Jun 28, 2013
Yesterday, the UK Government released initial figures on the uptake of its flagship Green Deal programme. This was developed to help homeowners retrofit energy efficiency...
Triple Dips, GDP and Sustainability
Apr 26, 2013
All eyes were on UK Chancellor George Osborne yesterday as the first quarter's GDP growth results were released. If they were negative, then we would...