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Treehuggers won't save the world
There's an old joke about engineers and their pragmatism: An optimist says the glass is half full; A pessimist says the glass is half empty; An engineer says the glass is twice as big as it needs to...
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Anger, Activism, and Corporate Social Responsibility
As the Occupy tents get carted away from St Pauls Cathedral, my mind went back to the discussion we had at Tipping Point Newcastle last week about the role of pressure groups in the corporate...
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Taking The Extremes Out of Sustainability
Last week, political broadcaster Andrew Neil (right) hosted a debate on climate science. He invited libertarian polemicist James Delingpole and Friends of the Earth campaigner Andrew Pendleton to give...
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Wise Words from the Sustainability Mastermind Group
Yesterday I hosted another of our Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group at another fantastic venue, this time the Biscuit Factory art gallery in Newcastle, said to be the largest commercial...
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Ranting & Raving Won't Get You Anywhere
All of us know somebody who has an obsession about something or other. Every time you speak to them, you know that the topic's going to come back to that issue sooner or later. So what do you do? You...
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What we can learn from Greenpeace's flying farrago...
It is usually politicians who are brought down by preaching one thing and then being found to be practising quite the opposite. But now it is another of our moral guardians which has been found wanting...
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Making Your Business Resilient with the Sustainability Masterminds
Last week saw the eighth meeting of the Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group. We rolled up to another top-notch venue, the Lord Crewe Arms in Blanchland - a County Durham village recycled out of...
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Sustainability Strategies in an Uncertain World
I'm a news and current affairs junkie, but the news is so unremittingly grim at the minute, I'm trying to ration my intake for my own sanity. Whether it's Ukraine, Gaza, the Ebola virus, Boko Haram or...
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The (Draft) Rules of Pragmatic Environmentalism
I was called a hypocrite last week. Not to my face, the individual is too cowardly to look me in the eye. No, he took to Twitter and attacked me for not being 100% against fracking - merely 80%. My...
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Being right isn't enough
You'd have to have the heart of Katie Hopkins not to be moved by the refugee crisis – a humanitarian disaster unfolding in front of our eyes. The reasons for this huge movement of people are many and...
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