Sustainability by Innovation vs Sustainability by Metric
Yesterday, I had a fantastic visit to Camira, the UK's largest interior fabrics company. Even if you've never heard of them, you've almost certainly sat...
Play the game
May 2, 2014
Too many sustainability people I meet are single-handedly trying to change a huge monolithic organisation into some kind of hippy village with people sitting around in...
Back(casting) to the Future
Mar 26, 2014
I spent yesterday running a sustainability strategy workshop for one of my major clients. The main challenge in getting people to think strategically is to...
Sustainability Workshops Work (or I wouldn’t run so many)
Mar 24, 2014
I'm off later today to Birmingham to run a client workshop to develop a sustainability strategy. As I've mused before, given the number of workshops...
Are you hard enough for Sustainability?
Mar 17, 2014
Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility roles were traditionally filled by bright young things with shiny hair, clean fleeces and extraordinary niceness, but over the years...
Confidence in Sustainability requires direction and magnitude
Mar 12, 2014
Another day, another story that the Government is having a rethink about one of its key green policies - this time the Carbon Price Floor...
Let Sustainability Sinners Repent…
Mar 5, 2014
There's been a small kerfuffle in the sustainability world over the news that Staples is considering lifting its ban on Asia, Pulp & Paper (APP)...
How high do you set the bar?
Feb 20, 2014
Sustainability is by definition the biggest challenge facing mankind and, by extension, business. In trying to meet that challenge, one of the greatest dilemmas is...
Green Thread = Green Wash
Jan 22, 2014
This month I had to comment publicly on an important local strategy which boasted about having "a green thread" running its policies. Yesterday, someone complimented...
More Strategy Secrets of the Sustainability Masterminds
Jan 10, 2014
On Tuesday we had the sixth meeting of the Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group (CoSM) - the small group of senior sustainability executives from large organisations...