Getting more from third party sustainability services
Friday before last saw the twelfth meeting of the Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group, held in the medieval Undercroft at the wonderful Live Theatre in Newcastle....
3 Ways to Use the 80/20 Rule for Sustainability
Jan 26, 2015
My new book, Accelerating Sustainability using the 80/20 Rule, draws heavily on The 80/20 Rule by Richard Koch. Koch takes the general idea of the...
Are product lifecycles getting longer?
Aug 15, 2012
Some interesting anecdotal evidence: I had to make a 'repair or upgrade?' decision on my 4 year old MacBook Pro a couple of months ago....
Enabling your customers to be more sustainable pt1
Jan 16, 2012
I'm writing this on the East Coast Mainline, charging across the frozen fields of eastern England as the sun casts various tints of orange across...
Toxic Legacies
Aug 5, 2011
My first paid "green" job was researching techniques for the eco-design of "large made to order products" such as oil platforms, ships and process plant...
Blinded by methodology
Sep 17, 2010
This week, with great fanfare, The New Economics Foundation has released its latest ranking of 'clone towns' - all those town high streets that have...
Lies, damn lies, but where do they get those statistics?
Jul 25, 2008
I was at an event the other week where a keynote speaker put up a picture of an ancient Landrover and said "This is my...
Is life too short for life cycle assessment?
Aug 23, 2007
One phrase that immediately makes me suspicious is "A Life Cycle Assessment has shown that...".If you haven't come across Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) before, it...