Joss Tantram - Author at Terrafiniti

28th June 2019

Climate change – emergency, extinction or progress?

The world seems to be finally getting its head around the idea that climate change is turning into climate emergency but is there still too great a gap between words and action?

30th April 2019

Sustainability skills for everyone… not just the professionals

If your company has a sustainability ambition it also has a need for sustainability skills – but who needs them and how do you take a planned approach?

29th March 2019

Business Sustainability Essentials – new book from Terrafiniti

Sustainable Business Essentials – our new book. Providing insight, advice and guidance on the essentials of sustainability management.

27th February 2019

Materiality Matters, what matters most in sustainable business?

Materiality is the difference between a weak sustainability approach and one that’s logical, planned and based upon what’s important. What matters most?

31st January 2019

Sustainability, environmental management and quality – parallels and differences

Sustainability, EMS & quality management – can a continuous improvement approach to the management of sustainability deliver real strategic change?

28th November 2018

Sustainable business culture – how do you nurture it?

Any change in organisational priority implies a change in organisational approach and capacity. Successful sustainability must be approached as a change issue, in the norms, values systems and structures of an organisation as much as the specific ambition, goals and performance commitments of a sustainability strategy.

25th May 2018

Act now for sustainability! Should companies be activists?

Sustainability is a transformative agenda. It requires companies to not only develop new priorities, but also to become corporate activists – to act to affect the wider system within which they operate.

28th February 2018

The sustainability of profit – stop looking back

Why isn’t profit useful for measuring sustainability, or even for telling us much about economic viability? Because profit is a lagging indicator and sustainability is inherently about long-termism. Assessing and delivering sustainability requires forward-looking indicators.

31st January 2018

Sustainable Finance – workshop report

In September 2017, we ran a Towards 9 Billion workshop on sustainable finance, to explore how the finance sector could build a sustainable future. To get the workshop report contact us.

22nd December 2017

Sustainability Trends in 2018 and the questions you should ask

What sustainability trends will be important in 2018? What questions does your company need to ask in 2018?

27th September 2017

How might the financial system build a sustainable future?

A sustainable financial system requires both rethinking the very nature of value, as well as creativity in how we would project that value over time.

31st August 2017

Population & consumption: where’s the problem?

Alongside the challenges to sustainability we already face, there is growing concern about how these might accelerate in the future. One key issue is population growth and its impacts, but should the scale of humanity be seen as a threat or as an opportunity?

26th April 2017

Sustainable energy systems – what are they and how do we achieve them?

Effort is going into into exploring how we might develop sustainable energy systems – what are the issues and dimensions to consider?

31st March 2017

It’s the end of the world…but I don’t care

Ignoring the state of the planet is like ignoring the state of our house…except that when the walls fall down we won’t have anywhere else to move to.

27th February 2017

Sustainability & freedom: the politics of existence

Associating sustainability with a political viewpoint is an eternally frustrating issue that threatens our chances of achieving a sustainable future, why is it so common?

31st January 2017

2017 – What are the big sustainability issues?

Business sustainability continues to grow but are you focussing on what’s important? What big sustainability issues should you pay attention to in 2017?

20th December 2016

When all around is broken – maintaining optimism for sustainability

Sustainability practitioners need ways to maintain optimism, celebrate small successes but also keep an eye on the scale of change required.

10th October 2016

A flourishing future – business models & technologies for sustainability

A flourishing future – what business models and technologies do we need for achieving sustainability?

21st September 2016

Context and capitals – the next big things in corporate sustainability

Corporate sustainability must recognise the planet’s limits, sustainable context describes the ‘safe space’ for activities. What does it mean for you?

16th September 2016

Our Edie series

We have just produced a series of short, sharp blogs for sustainability practitioners on Edie. Each one provides a bridge between the big ideas and analysis in our Towards 9 Billion book series and the challenges and issues encountered by sustainability professionals in their daily lives. The pieces cover the rise of sustainability context, technology […]