Why Theresa May made that net zero carbon commitment
Many of us were very pleasantly surprised when the supposedly lame duck Prime Minister Theresa May used her last weeks in office to push through...
Green Jujitsu Black Belt Technique #1: Segmentation
Sep 11, 2013
It's almost a year since my Green Jujitsu book was published by DoSustainability. As regular readers will know, Green Jujitsu is the concept of aligning...
Do you suffer from Green Rage?
Sep 2, 2013
Interesting piece in Edie the other day about employees suffering "green rage" when their colleagues aren't behaving in a green way. Apparently the rise of...
The Power of the Sustainability Workshop
Jul 19, 2013
On Wednesday's Winning Business for Small Environmental Consultancies webinar, I was asked whether all my consulting engagements involved workshops. And the answer is, yes, the...
Is Green Jujitsu unethical?
Jul 12, 2013
The popular sustainability website 2degrees occasionally reposts blogs from here. One, on using Green Jujitsu to deal with climate sceptics, really rubbed an academic up...
Sustainability frustrations? Don’t get mad, get ‘umble
Jun 24, 2013
Regular readers will know that I get bemused by the amount of anger on t'internet, especially when it comes to sustainability issues. The killer question...
How to deal with a climate sceptic
Jun 5, 2013
When I originally came up with the concept of "Green Jujitsu", it was in the context of 'dealing with difficult people' in The Green Executive....
Sustainability Stories or Statistics?
May 17, 2013
How many times have you sat through a sustainability presentation that consists of graph after graph, table of data after table of data. And...
A Better Poster Won’t Do You No Good
Mar 8, 2013
This week is Climate Week - another of the plethora of weeks, days and hours dedicated to the planet - and it seems to have...
You Can’t Change Culture – So Don’t Bother Trying!
Mar 1, 2013
Here's the latest in my Green Business Confidential podcast series. It's called "You Can't Change Culture - So Don't Bother Trying". Make sure you listen...