Who is the keystone of your sustainability programme?
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...
Thinking Fast and Slow about Sustainability
Sep 11, 2015
Years ago, I got into a lengthy, but pretty pointless e-mail argument about climate science. On paper, I had no chance. My opponent was a...
Get people out of their comfort zone? Not too far…
Jul 17, 2015
The phrase "get people out of their comfort zone" is a cliché which gets bandied around a lot, but have you ever sat down and thought about...
How do you know your colleagues are engaged in sustainability?
Jul 6, 2015
I've spent a lot of time over the last couple of years trying to find an effective measurement of employee engagement in sustainability. You can...
Why you must align line management to sustainability
Jul 3, 2015
I've long argued that Leadership is the difference between the best at sustainability and the rest. Leadership is responsible for two critical sustainability issues: Strategy: all the...
Broadening Horizons
Jun 29, 2015
Everybody looks at the world through their own 'frame' – the psychological filter that blots out the majority of stimuli to concentrate our attention on...
CSR – HR = PR
Jun 26, 2015
On Wednesday I was at an event organised by CIPD North East for HR professionals. I'd been asked to come along by my colleague Tracy...
Exploiting the Virtuous Circle of Employee Engagement for Sustainability
Jun 24, 2015
I'm working on an employee engagement project for a major client which requires a quite detailed literature review. While I endeavour to keep up to date with...
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...
The Wonders of Nature
Jun 15, 2015
We've had a very educational Spring chez Kane with our camera-rigged bird box hosting its first blue tit family. The video clip above shows the...