Making Sustainability The New Normal
Yesterday afternoon I pulled on my lycra, got on my bike and headed off into Northumberland to watch the end of the Beaumont Trophy –...
Trees, please!
Jul 5, 2019
About 22 years ago I sat in a church and listened to local activists from a national pressure group plan a campaign where they would...
My simple green ‘life hack’ which can be used in the corporate world
Jul 1, 2019
At the weekend the Guardian was running a climate special. In one article, they asked climate experts what they were doing personally to cut their...
Why Theresa May made that net zero carbon commitment
Jun 28, 2019
Many of us were very pleasantly surprised when the supposedly lame duck Prime Minister Theresa May used her last weeks in office to push through...
Can your employees talk Sustainability?
Jun 19, 2019
Last week I had surgery at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary to fix a hernia (I may have mentioned it once or twice...). As I was...
Turtle-ly awesome Green Jujitsu
Jun 7, 2019
Today's 'green day' at our local primary school, so the younger two have gone dressed in green for an eco-themed day. Jimmy, middle child, has...
You’re probably doing more on Sustainability than you think…
Mar 28, 2019
I've just had a client send me a dossier on what they've achieved so far on Sustainability, and there's a huge amount more good stuff...
Engaging ‘difficult’ people in Sustainability
Mar 4, 2019
I've seen a couple of posts on social media recently where green-leaning people are getting frustrated with intransigent people they know, who just won't listen....
We need paths to Sustainability, not hoops to jump through
Feb 19, 2019
It's half term here, so yesterday I took the kids and our bikes up to Druridge Bay for a 9 mile ride along the coastal...
More Abuse of Sustainability Champions
Jan 28, 2019
During a conversation last week the following nugget came up "they think appointing Sustainability Champions is a substitute for paying for a Sustainability Manager." This...