Getting Smart About Metering - Terra Infirma

On Monday, an engineer came and installed a smart meter here at Terra Infirma Towers. And we entered the 21st Century… Why did I wait until our existing meter hit its expiry date before upgrading? Wel...

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When the Sustainability Going Gets Tough...

Many organisations are realising they're going to miss their Sustainability targets. This month, I set out what to do when you're facing a reckoning with reality.

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Will no-one think about the children? - Terra Infirma

Yesterday, the Mail on Sunday’s headline hit the sweet spot of a three-circle Venn diagram of MoS obsessions: attacking the BBC, migration and Net Zero. Apparently the Beeb, by teaching kids about cli...

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Can Aviation EVER Be Sustainable? With Katie Thompson, Bumprints - Terra Infirma

Ever since I launched the podcast, I’ve been trying to get a representative of the aviation industry on to talk Sustainability. And there’s probably a good reason for that as Katie Thompson, former ai...

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Fear of the new is understandable but must be overcome - Terra Infirma

It’s this time of year I wish I had an almost guilt-free heat pump here at Terra Infirma Towers, as I hold off that moment when I switch on the gas fired central heating for the winter. We’ve done som...

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UK Party Politics and the Climate: Where Do They Stand - Terra Infirma

So, the UK’s political party conference season comes to an end for another year – and it was a pretty tumultuous one, too. As a political geek, I listen to the party leaders’ speeches (or most of them...

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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error

Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data

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The State of Sustainability: The Shift to Resilience, with Vincent Charpiot, Capgemini - Terra Infirma

Capgemini’s latest survey of the state of coporate sustainability blows away the myth of a Net Zero backlash. Vincent Charpiot joins me on the pod to talk through the conclusions, in particular that t...

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Have We Been Sugarcoating Net Zero? More Fool Us - Terra Infirma

Last Friday morning I facilitated the latest meeting of the Sustainability Leadership Roundtable. The ostensible theme was decarbonising buildings, but, as always, once we dug into the whys and wheref...

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The X Curve and Sustainability: A Reckoning Beckons - Terra Infirma

The news that the UK Government is considering tariffs on imported Chinese EVs seems to have raised eyebrows across the political spectrum. We’ve been told repeatedly that the UK’s EV mandate should b...

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Can Technology Save Us? with Prof Wayne Visser - Terra Infirma

There’s a chunk of the environmental movement that uses ‘techno-optimist’ as an insult. But, as it is high carbon technology that is causing most of our problems, swapping that out in favour of low ca...

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Andy Burnham's Jackdaw/Rosebank Conundrum - Terra Infirma

For a man who said he was going to tell it like it is in his first leader’s conference speech yesterday, UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham dodged one big issue with a few weasel words, saying “we will be...

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John Healey addresses party conference for first time as Chancellor - his speech in full - LabourList

John Healey sets out his economic vision as Chancellor, focusing on fiscal discipline, industrialisation and renewed hope for Britain.

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Has the Net Zero Overton Window Shifted? - Terra Infirma

The ‘Overton window’ is political jargon for what is acceptable to talk about publicly at any one time. The window shifts around – in the 2005 UK General Election, the Conservative Party was pilloried...

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Orange or Green? Burnham's Big Energy Dilemma - Terra Infirma

In the latest of our (usually) 4-weekly round up of news and views on Sustainability, I mull on the fact that not much has changed in the last 8 weeks, but that newish UK PM Andy Burnham’s energy poli...

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Secrets of the Pros: 12 Winning Sustainability Mindsets - Terra Infirma

For the last 20 years we have had the privilege to work with some of the best Sustainability professionals. We have noticed that their success didn’t come so much from intellect or charisma (although ...

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Low Carbon Tech Keeps Surprising Me - In A Brilliant Way - Terra Infirma

Years ago I was at a climate dinner and found myself sitting beside the head of electric vehicles for one of the big car makes. I said “I’d love an EV, but I don’t have a driveway”. He shook his head ...

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If not Net Zero, then what? - Terra Infirma

When I produced my on-demand Net Zero for Business course three years ago, I suggested the snappiness of the phrase Net Zero was a double edged sword. It was both a totemic vision you could rally the ...

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Can Vampires Sell Sustainability? with Sara Bell - Terra Infirma

OK, the title of this podcast episode could only ever cover a fraction of what I discuss with Sara Bell, a genuine disruptor in the world of Sustainability. She won a lengthy court case to open up the...

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To Me, Business is About Trust - Terra Infirma

Every so often a piece of spam (or pseudo-spam) catches my eye while my finger is hovering over the delete key. I don’t know whether it is AI that manages to tailor the message to me, or whether someo...

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