Let’s Work Together – Partnership and Sustainability
'Partnership' is one of those funny words which far too many people spout with their brains disengaged - particularly when it comes to sustainability. It...
Book Review: The Zeronauts by John Elkington
Aug 10, 2012
John Elkington one of the sustainability field's leading pioneers and in his latest book he looks at those at the cutting edge of sustainability thinking...
Circular Economy or Web of Life?
Jul 11, 2012
As a nature lover, I thoroughly enjoyed Chris Packham's BBC series The Secrets of the Living Planet. Having been on our screens in my youth,...
Compost, Natural Cycles and the Circular Economy
Jun 11, 2012
Here's a grubby little secret - shhh - don't tell anyone - but I'm a closet compost fanatic. At last count I operate at least...
Are you ready for a drought?
Mar 19, 2012
Living in Britain is supposedly synonymous with owning an umbrella. And a cagoule. And wellies. But something strange is happening - or not happening -...
Going Loopy: Mindsets for a Sustainable Economy
Nov 9, 2011
One of the things that really impressed me with Dame Ellen MacArthur last Friday (other than the solo around the world sailing stuff) was, despite coming...
Waste Is A Verb, Not A Noun
Oct 21, 2011
Here's the latest in my Green Business Confidential podcast series. It's called "Waste is a verb, not a noun" and it is all about the...
Michael Pawlyn on Biomimicry
Aug 26, 2011
I really like this TED talk by Michael Pawlyn - it's about the application of biomimicry principles to architecture, waste management and food systems. I love...
Forestry, waste wood and business
Mar 16, 2011
Yesterday I ran a workshop on waste wood business opportunities for the National Industrial Symbiosis Programme's North East team. Industrial symbiosis is the concept of...
You need friends
Oct 15, 2010
If you believe the version of business as portrayed by The Apprentice, then it's an every-man-for-himself, dog-eat-dog, devil-take-the-hindmost kind of world. Which is largely nonsense,...