Only playing
When two dogs meet they will often ‘play-fight’. One may pretend to bite or growl at the other, but will do it in a way that says, “I am biting Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Sustainability
Why the ‘Financialisation of Nature’ is a very bad idea indeed
The six minute video, below, argues against the ‘financialisation’ of nature — it says it is wrong to apply the logic of finance to pay for forests, biodversity, and ecosystems. Continue Reading →
What climate change looks like
Climate is ‘the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period’. If the climate changed we would expect to see new types of weather at Continue Reading →
We are all one system
When grasshoppers live in an environment where they are afraid of spiders their nitrogen content falls. Then when they then die, their bodies take longer to decompose. And they add Continue Reading →
Climate change is a symptom of our culture
The Year Without a Summer shows why addressing climate change is our number one priority. But the reality is, as Prince Charles has said, that “we are simply not reacting quickly enough.” Continue Reading →
The Year Without a Summer
I recently spent a week in Cornwall with friends. Like the rest of Britain we had atrocious weather: at times there were ‘January storms’; at times it was sunny enough to wear Continue Reading →
Taking relationships for granted
“FT Breaking News” last night brought an announcement from José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission. He had told the paper that the EU needs to go “beyond the Continue Reading →
A brief aside
Before I return to the important question of what sustainable consulting will look like, a friend has written to me to highlight one figure from the KPMG report. A company Continue Reading →
Sustainable consulting
I’ve been having an interesting discussion (offline) about the management consultants’ report reviewed yesterday, which outlines ten “megaforces that will affect every business over the next two decades.” The report does Continue Reading →
KPMG: “Ten sustainability megaforces”
I’m reading about the ten “sustainability megaforces” identified by KPMG, in a report they published in February this year. They’ve analysed “dozens of forecasts” to identify ten “sustainability megaforces that Continue Reading →