Playing To Your Employees’ Strengths and Interests
The standard attitude to raising awareness of sustainability with employees can be parodied as: "OK, these people are pig ignorant and uninterested in sustainability issues....
Any colour you like as long as it’s green…
Jul 16, 2012
On a visit to friends of our who have two small boys, a squabble broke out over colouring pencils. “Josh, you’ve got loads of pencils,...
Reframing the environment vs economy argument
Jul 6, 2012
In my keynote speech at the Energy & Environment North East 2012 conference, I argued that the question was not low carbon or growth, but...
Is the team key to creating a culture of sustainability?
Jul 4, 2012
What can a single designer do to change the life cycle environmental performance of a complex product, say, a car? If they're really clever (or...
Why the #EndFossilFuelSubsidies campaign is so clever
Jun 19, 2012
Robert Redford:"We should not be subsidizing the destruction of our planet" huff.to/L8J85X #endfossilfuelsubsidies — HuffPost Green (@HuffPostGreen) June 18, 2012 For over 24 hour...
Sustainable Business In A Leadership Vacuum
Mar 9, 2012
I hosted two Green Academy webinars on Wednesday, the first on Getting Off to a Flying Start, aimed at beginners, and Making It Happen: From...
The deadliest word…
Oct 17, 2011
The word I like to hear least when I'm working with a client or a group of businesspeople is "but...". "But" creeps in like a...
Carbon Nation – classic green jujitsu
Feb 21, 2011
There's a new eco-doc out called Carbon Nation aimed at US climate sceptics - tag line "the climate change solutions movie... that doesn't even care...