Help! My boss is a climate change denier! What should I do?
This week's episode of the Net Zero Business Podcast is a bit different – it's a Q&A featuring this superb question from Alice Doyle: how...
A Sustainability Blast from the Past
Dec 22, 2023
Something slightly different this week - some years ago Anthony Day interviewed me for the Sustainable Futures Report podcast which sadly came to an end...
Elisa Gasperini of Ahlsell on Net Zero/SBTs, circular economy and authenticity
Dec 8, 2023
Elisa Gasperini, Head of Sustainability at huge Nordic construction suppliers Ahlsell, talks about her own Sustainability journey, the benefits of Science-based Targets in addition to...
5 tips to beat eco-anxiety
Dec 6, 2023
More and more I've been hearing Sustainability people talk about their eco-anxiety. It's very easy to look at the constant stream of bad environmental news...
Are Science-based Targets now coming into their own underpinning Net Zero?
Nov 28, 2023
When Science-based Targets (SBTs) first emerged in 2015, I must admit I was slightly cynical. I mean, why stipulate that your organisation needs to, say,...
Sustainability is about psychology, not technology
Oct 23, 2023
I'm an engineer, both by training and outlook. When I first dipped my toe in the field of Sustainability about 25 years ago, I was...
The denial of climate science is, sadly, human nature
Jun 12, 2023
I'm currently reading the wonderfully quirky and free-ranging Map Addict by Mike Parker which I happened upon in a charity bookshop a couple of weeks...
Why LTNs make (some) people mad…
Apr 3, 2023
Over the last six months, I've been carefully watching the Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) end of the culture war play out as it is a...
Should the new icon of the climate challenge be the puffin?
Mar 13, 2023
Way, way back when I first set up Terra Infirma, I ordered a set of corporate Christmas Cards featuring a polar bear stalking across the...
Competition can put Spice into Sustainability
Feb 20, 2023
When I was younger and musing on what future family life might hold, I would never have guessed I'd have three sporty kids. The eldest...