“Earth Hour is shaping up to be an impressive symbolic response to our planet in peril”.
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Why is it that so many live in denial?
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It is difficult not be ambivalent about the Government’s reactive (at this late stage, it can hardly be called pro-active) stance on the very real threat posed to our national and global economies by the reduction in available carbon resource.
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The word game continues; I read a post on another blog the other day from a green consultant challenging the use of the word ‘sustainability’….

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“Water, water, every where / Nor any drop to drink” (with apologies to Coleridge)

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I’m not a great fan of most business books. It’s always struck me that if the ideas expounded therein are so blindingly brilliant, why is the authors writing about it instead of developing a great business, or ‘walking the talk’?
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This month sees B&Q taking wind turbines off the shelf after revelations that not only do they not generate enough power to pay for themselves in our lifetime.

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The IT sector has been progressively more and more under pressure to ‘green’ its act; and rightly so. This is a sector that burns natural resources like it’s going out of fashion (which it rapidly is!).

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I am indebted to Nicolas Caesar of Ashridge Consulting for an article he referred me to recently called “Weathercocks and Signposts” (just Google it, it’s free to download), published by the WWF.

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The CBI’s director of business environment, Neil Bentley, was recently heard to say that getting to a thriving low-carbon economy would be a long, hard slog but was necessary and that the right Government policy, IT systems and training for the next generation of workers will be key ingredients.
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