In terraria… lessons for Sustainability
Every year, the approach of Christmas fills me with dread as I am rubbish at buying presents. If Mrs K looks twice at something in the...
A 2020 Vision for Sustainability
Jan 3, 2020
Happy New Year, everybody! For Sustainability people, 2020 is a bit like when we hit 1984 and the Western World wasn't run by oppressive, manipulative...
Meeting the Sustainability Challenge
Nov 11, 2019
On Friday I went to an IEMA roundtable on the climate emergency – the IEMA event I have attended since I was nominated as a...
Cutting through the noise on Sustainability
Sep 13, 2019
I don't mind admitting I'm suffering from a bit of overwhelm just at the moment. I'm still getting back into the way of having two...
If you don’t have a Sustainability target…
Sep 9, 2019
I need targets in my life. I may be a mediocre cyclist who has no ambitions for any kind of glory, but every year I...
The Goldilocks Zone of a Climate Emergency
Sep 6, 2019
Regular readers will know I wear (at least) two Sustainability hats– here as a consultant and politically as the Opposition Spokesman for Sustainability on Newcastle...
Things that hack me off about Sustainability #367
Sep 3, 2019
First real day back at work after a summer of short breaks, DIY, part-work/part-staycation. Speaking of which, I can't stand the way the word 'staycation'...
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...
Trees, please!
Jul 5, 2019
About 22 years ago I sat in a church and listened to local activists from a national pressure group plan a campaign where they would...
Don’t let the green-tape tail wag the Sustainability dog…
Apr 30, 2019
I'm busy drafting a Sustainability Strategy for an autonomous division of a much larger organisation. We have had a bit of a dilemma as the...