Peak Peak Oil?
"Whatever happened to Peak Oil?" is a question being asked by many commentators as we sit on a global oil glut. We first have to...
The Business Case for A Sustainable Supply Chain
Dec 4, 2013
No matter what element of a client's sustainability programme I am dealing with, my first move is always to pin down the business case for...
The Resource Crunch IS Crushing Growth
Jun 3, 2013
Yesterday I was perusing The ENDS Report (possibly my last edition, but that's a different matter) when I saw this from Tom Burke: Nearly a...
Resource Crunch or Climate Change? Which keeps you awake at night?
Feb 20, 2013
One of the most interesting debates at last week's Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group (CoSM) was which is the most pressing industry for business - maintaining...
Musings on a Green Economy pt1: After the Crash
Aug 21, 2012
I'm officially on holiday for the next two weeks, but due to the size of the bump on my pregnant partner, we're holidaying at home...
Objectivity is Subjective
Aug 17, 2012
One of the most frustrating things about this business is the politicisation of environmental issues, and how difficult this makes getting objective analyses. Whether you...
Why Rio+20 and the G20 should be one meeting
Jun 20, 2012
Two big global jamborees at the same time: Rio+20 trying save the planet and the G20 in Mexico trying to save the global economy. Really...
Make the Leap
Apr 25, 2012
Interesting article in the Guardian this morning from Maria van der Hoeven, executive director of the International Energy Agency saying clean energy is both feasible and...
Are we stuck in an oil price doom loop?
Mar 30, 2012
I'm reading The Third Industrial Revolution by Jeremy Rifkin - I'll post a review here in the next few weeks - but in the first...
Resilience
Jan 9, 2012
Just this weekend, my partner and I were chatting about the UK petrol protests of 2000 (it's laugh a minute in our house sometimes...). At...