On tribalism, culture wars and Sustainability
Following the defenestration of the statue of slave trader Edward Coulson in Bristol last week, a ‘topple the racists’ website appeared listing other statues around...
Winners and losers in Sustainability
Jun 9, 2020
Last week, I got a complaint from someone on the West Coast of the USA that our Green Academy Supply Chain edition was at 6am...
Why we will never win the argument on climate change
Apr 16, 2020
Sometimes a diagram sums up a whole load of messy thoughts and when I saw the graph below on what will inevitably happen when we...
Why we don’t do Sustainability certifications…
Mar 2, 2020
Every so often, someone contacts me about a new Sustainability certification they'd like me to promote to my clientele. I always say 'No'. Two reasons:...
Letting go is the hardest part of Sustainability
Dec 4, 2019
SNP Leader Nicola Sturgeon is an shrewd political operator, and in recent election TV debates she has managed to skilfully dodge one crucial question. Twice...
The new rules of Sustainability: Anything other than fundamental change is greenwash
Nov 18, 2019
One of the things that really, really bugs me about Sustainability, whether in the business, political or personal spheres, is the belief that being able...
Why ‘zero’ is such a powerful Sustainability target
Nov 8, 2019
I've had quite a week of zeros. On Wednesday night, with my political hat on, I proposed a motion to Newcastle City Council for zero...
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (turn and face the strange…)
Oct 7, 2019
One of the weirder aspects of climate denial/scepticism movement is the assumption that the only thing that can change is the laws of physics. Those...
Sustainability as a moonshot?
Jul 19, 2019
As we wallow in moon-landing nostalgia (fake nostalgia in my case, I was minus two years old at the time, but hey...), it reminded me...
Nature ain’t cuddly and neither should we be
Jun 3, 2019
First day back in the saddle after our traditional half-term camping trip to Wooler, Northumberland. We tried to shake up the itinerary this year –...