Making an emotional connection to sustainability
Very belated happy valentine to you - the least romantic day of the year has passed chez Kane without a murmur once again. Last week, on...
Never underestimate the ability of an organisation to resist change
Feb 22, 2016
I've had a number experiences recently with trying to get a large organisation to change its mind. It is quite incredible the number of ways...
Catching the Sustainability Virus
Feb 8, 2016
During a recent piece of employee engagement work, one of the people I was speaking to likened sustainability to a virus – once it infects...
How to engage people in sustainability? Simple. Ask them.
Jan 25, 2016
During the 16 Kick-Ass Sustainability Ideas for 2016 webinar last week, I (inevitably) covered Green Jujitsu – the idea that we should 'frame' sustainability to...
Latest Wisdom from the Sustainability Masterminds
Jan 11, 2016
Just before Christmas, the Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group met at the Biscuit Factory in Newcastle. The topic was capacity building and engagement but as usual the...
Adding friction to unsustainable behaviour
Dec 9, 2015
Regular readers will know I'm a bit sceptical about the plastic bag tax – mainly because it's aimed at a minor environmental impact rather than...
The myth of bottom-up sustainability
Dec 4, 2015
I couldn't have picked a better antidote to this dismal autumn than to spend 24 hours with the Interface Europe sustainability ambassadors in Scherpenzeel, Netherlands. Hearing...
Nobody does it better
Dec 2, 2015
I'm in Scherpenzeel in the middle of the Netherlands for one particular reason: it's the base of Interface's European operations and the location for the company's Mission...
Sustainable Stupidity
Nov 27, 2015
I sometimes read stuff on-line that makes me go all "why oh why oh why?" This week it was yet another article from an employee...
Who is the keystone of your sustainability programme?
Nov 25, 2015
The keystone of an arch is the one which completes it and lets the arch bear weight. Whether in a structural engineering sense it is...