The short listed projects for the Welsh Assembly’s Sustainable Development Challenge will be listed here in four hours’ time. The unexpected delay was caused by a nice sized bunch of projects waiting for the last minute before they sent their applications in – lots of good ideas coming forwards!  

Around 2500 years ago Confucius is quoted as saying words along the lines of “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” We’re at a time of choice about our goals – we could chase targets that are achievable, and much better than those of [...]

There’s some interesting work going in Wales trying to sort out what sustainable supply chains in the food sector; we’re keen to find out what not only what they are doing, and what they could be doing, but what’s possible. Resource use and energy efficiency are important, as is sustainable land use. One of the [...]

Blogger and media guru Euan Semple is one of the excellent speakers at this year’s Do Lectures; his simple, powerful insights are what many businesses need to make sense of change that’s happening. A couple of days back Euan posted this: During the Q&A at a recent event a senior manager in the organisation I [...]

n an posting today, the BBC featured the discovery of the way in which the common musk turtle ‘breathes’ with a tongue coverered in specialist ‘buds’. Discoveries such as this show the importance of looking after nature for its own sake and so that we can learn the ‘how’ of secrets such as this so [...]

Here’s a short update on the events running at Hay on Earth this year – the deadline for applications is 12.00 on 24 May, so organisations in Wales that want to be considered for the sustainability innovation funding from the Welsh Assembly’s SD Challenge need to get writing. SD Challenge: the Welsh Assembly have a [...]

Adventurer and environmentalist David de Rothschild set up his organisation Adventure Ecology to take messages about common sense good practice into schools and work places, and has used it has the platform for his well-publicised Plastiki expedition which he’s now on, sailing a boat made from plastic bottles across the Pacific. Closer to home for [...]