Jung, Greenwash and Sustainability
Gotta love Twitter some times, and last night I saw this wonderful quote attributed to Carl Jung:* "You are what you do, not what you...
Sustainability Lessons from 14 years in Local Government
May 7, 2018
Regular readers may have noticed that my output here and on social media has been somewhat patchy over the last few weeks, That's because I...
Small is Sustainable?
Feb 12, 2018
Interesting report from advertising agency 18 Feet & Rising this week. They polled 100 CEOs of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) about attitudes to Sustainability. 88%...
Sustainability Leadership on the Rise, despite Trump
Dec 13, 2017
There hasn't been much coverage of President Macron's One Planet Summit on Tuesday, probably because nothing went wrong. The event was to mark the second...
OK, so I was wrong on the plastic bag tax
Nov 29, 2017
Regular readers will know that I have been somewhat dismissive of the plastic bag tax (to put it mildly...) Well, hands up, I was wrong....
Making Sustainability Robust to Sudden Change
Oct 18, 2017
What happens if your super-Sustainability-champion-of-a-CEO suddenly announces their retirement? How do you make sure your Sustainability programme survives the inevitable upheaval? It was questions like this...
Sustainability Bites 13/10/17
Oct 13, 2017
Here's this week's edition of Sustainability Bites where I really struggle to find anything to criticise in the UK Government's Clean Growth Strategy, so I...
The State of Sustainability in UK Politics
Oct 10, 2017
As a political geek, I've been following the UK's party conference season as avidly as usual. My theory is that the content of the Leaders' speeches...
Sustainability Bites 6/10/17
Oct 6, 2017
Here's this week's edition of Sustainability Bites, covering the Sustainability elements of the Conservative Party Conference (more than you'd think), the latest green energy record...
Embedding Sustainability: Bottom Up or Top Down?
Sep 13, 2017
This month's Ask Gareth considers an excellent question from 'Rob' (names have been changed to protect the bashful) – should you approach Sustainability from the...