The growing appreciation that our ‘built environments’ embrace a more sustainable role in our communities, is beginning to focus the minds of those constructing buildings, homes, and transport infrastructure. No longer is the life, durability and functionality of the building enough. The impacts on the physical, social, economic and natural environments need to be considered … Continue reading
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Is ‘Sustainability’ Starting to Bite?
Time to sharpen your claws, toughen your skin, and amp up your diplomatic and collaborative skills ‘to eleven’ if you’re embarking on a journey to sustainably reconfigure your organisation, its offering, and how it thinks, breathes and behaves. How should we handle the inevitable bite-back when the introduction of sustainability begins to rattle cages? In … Continue reading
The Art of Recovery
Finding our feet, stretching our legs, and dusting down our face-to-face social skills have coincided with the gradual lifting of restrictions within the UK, as we’ve collectively battled with the COVID-19 pandemic. Most of us have stories to tell of how we lived through the past 18 months and faced the frustrations, dealt with loss, … Continue reading
Eating and Shopping Smart to Survive Corona Virus Lockdown
Seeing how the impact of the spread of the Covid-19 Corona virus pandemic has emptied our supermarket shelves, and temporarily changed how we need to shop and feed ourselves and our families, here are a few suggestions to help; ease anxiety, eat on a tighter budget, deal with preparing all meals at home, buy enough … Continue reading
Time To Gear Up and Celebrate Our 60 Year Careers
Recently, LinkedIn recognised my ’10 years anniversary’ of working in my current role. First of all, thank you to those who have responded to the LinkedIn prompt. As we probably all appreciate, this quirk of LinkedIn may not actually mean very much, but as a device to reach out, say “Hello”, or remind everyone else … Continue reading