California is banning plastic bags. Big Deal.
Have you read the headlines in the press that the State of California is going to ban single use plastic bags in large supermarkets? Well, sound the...
Why you need to be a pain in the ass to deliver sustainability
Sep 5, 2014
An offhand tweet yesterday got me embroiled in a debate about the efficacy of environmental awareness weeks. This spilled onto the ZeroWasteWeek Facebook page where...
We need MORE pedantry in sustainability
Jul 11, 2014
My name is Gareth and I'm a pedant. There. Said it. It really annoys me when a word or phrase with a particular meaning gets...
Save us, please, from vacuous green slogans
Apr 30, 2014
Saw this the other day. Anybody guess what it means? Does 'green' just refer to the company livery? Or is it a promise of sustainable...
Banking Bad: What The Co-op Got Wrong
Nov 22, 2013
So the latest big banking scandal involves my own bank - The Co-operative holds both my personal account and those of Terra Infirma Ltd. The...
Green Thread or Spinning a Yarn?
Jul 15, 2013
A while a go I mentioned an organisation which had ditched its environmental commitments and how it had fallen back from front runner to also...
There’s nothing green about a crap product
Jun 14, 2013
I really liked these bamboo socks when I saw them in TK Maxx, but they barely lasted a couple of weeks before they wore through....
Who’s for yet another environmental awareness week?
Apr 19, 2013
Apparently it's Responsible Business Week. And Earth Week. And Work Zone Awareness Week, National Beanpole Week, Bowel Cancer Awareness Week, Parkinson's Awareness Week, Depression Awareness...
Let’s drop the mumbo-jumbo and get on with it!
Mar 6, 2013
Here's something I read on Guardian Sustainable Business from Doug Tompkins, founder of North Face and Esprit: "we should not rush into trying to solve problems...
Who’s the leech, Mr Delingpole?
Oct 26, 2012
I've pretty much given up paying attention to "contrarian" anti-environmental bloggers - the purveyors of zombie myths that just won't die - but it came...