So Tesco has announced that it is going to phase out carbon footprint labeling on its products . The company pledged  in 2007 to attach carbon footprint labels to all of its products “so that consumers can compare products in the same way they compare salt content and calorie counts.” We know that nutrition labels […]

Taking off, 2 hours late on the plane to South Africa to go to the Climate Conference, I shut my eyes and wish the plane up. The pilot may think he is flying the plane through by the power of  thrust and acceleration, but ever since childhood I have held a belief that it is […]

A few people have asked me the question what can we learn from the demise of AccountAbility as an organisation governed for the public good. Others have asked me the more straightforward, but equally valid variant ‘what the hell happened?’ I’ll start with the second question, then have a go at the first. As anyone […]

Did you ever hear the story of ‘Stone Soup’? How a charismatic fellow walks into a village carrying nothing but an empty pot. Filling it with water, he drops in a large stone and starts to heat and stir the water, telling anyone who will listen that he is making the most delicious soup. He […]

I have been a very bad blogger of late.  My only excuse is I have been quite busy. So in lieu of the past four months worth of cracking blog posts that I had good intentions of writing, here instead is a run down of what I have been up to. It is a diverse […]

If you’ve ever wondered what 21st century, social media powered stakeholder engagement might look like, there was a pretty good demonstration last week. Jason Sadler, a young promoter whose business leaves him with a surfeit of shirts decided to combine his excess wardrobe with his social media following and created a campaign for a good […]

This started as a response to Peter Madden’s blog post on Stewart Brand’s book Whole Earth Discipline. But it grew into a blog post of its own. I haven’t read the book yet, but I think Brand is probably on the right track. In the end it is not good intentions, visions or values that […]