Posts Tagged: environment

Indonesia has the second largest natural tropical forests on the planet and these have endured continual threats from illegal logging and unsustainable practices for decades.  WWF and many other local and international groups are working to turn these problems around to ensure ‘High Conservation Value Forests’ are left standing. It would be great to think [...]

The wisdom of the crowd was particularly evident at our pivotal Net Positive conference. The attendees – 200 sustainability experts – offered many great insights for firms stepping up a gear. Their guide to going net positive is available via Green Mondays. For a company to reach a net positive result, it’ll need to make [...]

Jane Davidson was Minister for Environment and Sustainability in Wales from 2007 to 2011. She is also a President of Ramblers Cymru and Director of the INSPIRE sustainability institute. “Four years ago this week the UK Parliament passed the Climate Change Act and I felt immensely proud that the UK was leading the way in [...]

Nature is the basis of everybody’s well-being. To quote David Attenborough on this 60th anniversary celebration of his incredible career: “A happy ecosystem is the basis for a happy human being. If it goes wrong, everything goes wrong.” And that means we need to protect the future of a whole range of species and places. [...]

After several months of relative quiet there seems to be a flurry of activity in the UK climate conversation around ‘geo-engineering’. Most recently there was a piece in the Sunday Times that labels geo-engineering “a bad idea whose time has come”. For folks who haven’t been following this conversation, geo-engineering is an umbrella term for [...]

It’s been a record-breaking, feel-good month in a lot of ways. Team GB’s record Olympic medal haul left us on a high. World records on the track, velodrome, and aquatic centre crashed one after the other. But there is one record that I’d hoped we wouldn’t break this summer. I’m talking about the 2007 record [...]

I have young children and have learnt that something as simple as a walk takes on a new meaning. Walks now take twice as long and yet we only cover half the distance. The reason being my children are constantly alert to their surroundings, fascinated by the wildlife, noises and textures. I have learnt to [...]

Today was a real treat. Our team – the international development team – had the opportunity to spend a day together, outside of the office, to work on strategic planning for the coming year. This isn’t something that happens too often – we all have heavy workloads, deadlines, meetings and so on. Beyond the plans [...]

Today is Global Tiger Day – an annual celebration first declared back in 2010 by the governments of all 13 countries where tigers are still found in the wild. The day that the event was announced was an amazing landmark for tiger conservation. I remember it well… It was in sub-zero temperatures and snow blizzards [...]

With the Games finally kicking off this week, one of the big talking points has been the food on offer at the events. Shaun McCarthy, who’s chaired the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 recalls previous Olympic eating experiences – and tells us how he thinks London 2012’s food offerings shape up.