Words Matter: What “The Bedroom Tax” can teach us about selling sustainability
You can win or lose an argument on the words you choose to use. Take the recent furore over changes to UK housing benefits. The...
Sustainability Stories or Statistics?
May 17, 2013
How many times have you sat through a sustainability presentation that consists of graph after graph, table of data after table of data. And...
Green Business Confidential: Lighten Up
May 10, 2013
Here's the latest in my Green Business Confidential podcast series. It's called "Lighten Up". Make sure you listen to the end... Or, you can download...
Who’s for yet another environmental awareness week?
Apr 19, 2013
Apparently it's Responsible Business Week. And Earth Week. And Work Zone Awareness Week, National Beanpole Week, Bowel Cancer Awareness Week, Parkinson's Awareness Week, Depression Awareness...
Don’t go quiet…
Apr 5, 2013
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jezarnold/ One of the advantages of working with clients' employees is you get a glimpse of the view of companies' sustainability efforts through their eyes....
Green Communications Lessons from Drucker
Feb 4, 2013
I'm still working my way through The Essential Drucker and I'll be writing up a piece on the substantial chapter on Social Responsibility of Business...
Cut the Bull**** – Straight Talking & Sustainability
Jan 30, 2013
I spent yesterday contributing to an draft of a client's sustainability strategy. What was most impressive was the Herculean attempts to keep the usual corporate...
Once upon a time there was a problem with the climate…
Jan 7, 2013
There was a very interesting article in the Guardian last week by Oliver Burkeman where he lamented the lack of widespread public interest in the...
Movember, Memes and, er, Mployee Engagement
Dec 3, 2012
This weekend, the air resonated with the sound of a million electric razors signalling the end of another Movember and a million temporary moustaches. These...
Innovation, Failure & Sustainability
Jul 23, 2012
It is one of the most repeated clichés in business: The man who never made a mistake never made anything. Sustainability requires innovation, innovation implies...