Green Thread or Spinning a Yarn?
A while a go I mentioned an organisation which had ditched its environmental commitments and how it had fallen back from front runner to also...
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...
How to pay lip service to sustainability
Dec 17, 2012
I generally assume that readers of this blog want to take sustainability seriously. It suddenly hit me that maybe I'm being a bit presumptuous and that...
Shopping for sustainability?
Dec 7, 2011
I was perusing the always excellent ENDS Report the other day and noticed that there were three consecutive articles covering big sustainability ventures by big...
RBS, Fossil Fuels, Campaigns & Greenwash
Nov 28, 2011
Interesting story in the news this morning that Royal Bank of Scotland has pulled out of sponsoring Climate Week after pressure from NGOs angry at...
Is this greenwash? You decide…
Nov 7, 2011
A week or so ago my other half proudly presented me with a new kettle. "Look!" she said "It's an eco-friendly one!" And sure enough...
Classic Greenwash
Aug 30, 2011
I saw this refrigerated trailer at Stranraer while waiting for the ferry to Belfast last week. If you can't make it out, it is marked with...
Avoiding Greenwash: How Green is Green?
Jul 27, 2011
Greenwash is widely regarded as the greatest sin in the green business world. The term was coined by environmentalist Jay Westerveld in response to those...
What are you going to do with all that data?
Apr 28, 2011
The old management aphorism "that which gets measured, gets managed" is all too true, but so is the old farmer's saying "a pig never got...
Rubbish packaging claims?
Jan 5, 2011
The UK's packaging regulations certainly seem to be starting to bite with even my cat food bragging about a 10% cut in cardboard. I like...