Are Sustainability accreditations worth the bother?
I spoke on the phone yesterday to the Sustainability Director of a major worldwide brand. She was exasperated as she was in the middle of...
BETA: Customer Engagement for Sustainability Model
Dec 6, 2017
Next week's Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group meeting is going to consider how to engage customers in Sustainability. This is a huge issue as the bulk...
The Best Way to Engage People in Sustainability
Nov 17, 2017
I'm currently working with two clients on the roll-out of their Sustainability Strategies. Both of these roll outs basically involve delivering suitable workshops for key...
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 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...
How to choose a Sustainability Accreditation
Jul 7, 2017
Yesterday the Sustainability Masterminds were ensconced in the plush Boudoir of Acklam Hall in Middlesbrough to discuss the thorny topic of Sustainability accreditations – ISO14001,...
Sustainability Masterminds on Waste
Mar 15, 2017
Last week saw the seventeenth – seventeenth, blimey – meeting of the Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (an amazing...
The Importance of Sustainability Conversations in 2017
Jan 6, 2017
Happy New(-ish) Year from Terra Infirma! I write this from a ward of Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary after surgery on the little finger upon which I cleverly...
2016 at Terra Infirma Towers
Dec 29, 2016
If 2016 was a tumultuous one in world affairs – Brexit, Trump, Syria, all your childhood icons dying – it was a relatively calm one here...
Embedding Sustainability into Capital Investment Decisions
Dec 16, 2016
Last Friday saw the final Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group meeting of 2016. We met at the wonderful Live Theatre in Newcastle and had a great...