Business and the environment: Wasting resources costs the earth - and lowers your competitive edge

Influence is getting others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it - a take on Eisenhower's famous leadership statement

The top two ways to destroy success are greed and impatience

It is environmental illiteracy and a complete lack of forward thinking to ignore the need to halt and then reverse population growth in the context of climate change, travel congestion, unaffordable housing, and resource depletion

Reasons to be positive. The economic downturn could be the catalyst for positive change. It should be translated into the wake-up call we need for a major change in aspirations and lifestyles to save humanity from the ecological and economic disaster that would otherwise result from continuing on the high carbon and resource depleting path we have been pursuing

No economic measure has more value for a nation than investing in a clean & sustainable low carbon future

Those living in rural areas as well as those with a planning policy remit for those areas have an important responsibility to protect green belt agricultural land for the wider benefit of feeding the UK into the uncertain future that we all face