Sustainability is a Joke
Family holidays lead to family in-jokes and the most repeated gag on this one comes from my second son, Jimmy winding up older members of...
Queuing for a Ferry and the Psychology of Energy Use
Jul 25, 2013
I'm on our family summer holiday - this year, we're in my hometown of Belfast. My mother has just turned 70, so we had a...
Make Green The Default
Jul 23, 2013
I have an ageing HP laser printer - I bought a duplex device as I wanted to be a good little greenie and print double...
The Struggle for Sustainability
Jul 17, 2013
Greenpeace don't do things by halves do they? Last week's Ice Climb protest saw 6 climbers scale London's iconic new Shard skyscraper to bring attention...
Is Green Jujitsu unethical?
Jul 12, 2013
The popular sustainability website 2degrees occasionally reposts blogs from here. One, on using Green Jujitsu to deal with climate sceptics, really rubbed an academic up...
And the winner is… the power of competition for sustainability
Jul 3, 2013
I'm writing this just before I catch the train to London, tux in tow, for the big BusinessGreen Leader awards tonight - Terra Infirma Ltd...
Sustainability frustrations? Don’t get mad, get ‘umble
Jun 24, 2013
Regular readers will know that I get bemused by the amount of anger on t'internet, especially when it comes to sustainability issues. The killer question...
How to deal with a climate sceptic
Jun 5, 2013
When I originally came up with the concept of "Green Jujitsu", it was in the context of 'dealing with difficult people' in The Green Executive....
Kids get it, why don’t adults?
May 28, 2013
Last week I had one of the more exacting challenges of my professional career - explaining the circular economy (but not using that phrase, natch)...
Words Matter: What “The Bedroom Tax” can teach us about selling sustainability
May 22, 2013
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...