Earlier this year North Tyneside Council published its Climate Change Strategy after months of work by council officers and community volunteers. The ISO 14001 process was started in 2007 and the council has just been through a successful audit. In this interview I talked to Tony Turnbull, Ainsley Rea and Laura McTaggart. We discussed a wide range of issues, including waste control, efficient fleet management and community engagement. Duration 18m 45s

In a recent speech at the University of Brighton, Lord Stern said that climate change would lead to conflicts affecting billions of people. Anthony Day discusses the issues with Ian Danter, host of The Late Show on talkSPORT Radio. Duration: 9 minutes

A conversation with Oliver Bettis, Pricing Actuary for Great Lakes UK, part of the Munich Re Group. We discussed the scientific consensus, whether the government is telling the whole truth, whether anyone will do anything before it's too late, and a whole range of other issues. Approximately 30 minutes.

Whatever the consequences of climate change, the bigger the world population, the more people that will suffer. Nick Reeves, Executive Director of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, believes we need control population and cut consumption. The world needs a new economic model. I asked him to tell me more.

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Duration 8m40s

The Prince's May Day Summit. Last Friday, 1st May, businesses gathered in 11 centres across the country to support the Prince of Wales's initiative for low carbon business.

Conversation with Doug Stewart about what a sustainable communications company and is and what it does. Services to a blue-chip client list and master-classes and publications available to all. See www.futerra.co.uk

Duration 10m 20s

This is an update to my TeleSeminar - "Staying in Business, Staying in Profit". Includes comments on the Triple Bottom Line and the five levels of Sustainability. How to save money and how to improve revenue. Detailed notes available here.

Duration 33m

In this interview with Anthony Day, Harry Morrison, General Manger of the Carbon Trust Standard Co, talks about a new standard for organisations and compares it with the Carbon Reduction Label for products.

One organisation that has already adopted the Standard is Citrica, a specialist cleaning contractor.

Registration for the Carbon Reduction Commitment is now well under way and there is a user guide available from DEFRA here. The Mayday Climate Change Summit is almost upon us - you can register at www.bitc.org.uk

See www.anthony-day.com for more on sustainable business.

Ben Wielgus, Sustainability Advisor at KPMG.  Commentary on a range of issues including costs of compliance; how the CRC League Table may penalise prudent organisations; a suggestion scheme to motivate staff and drive employee engagement.

Recorded at the Newcastle Low Carbon Best Practice Exchange.

Duration 6m 5s

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Lindsey Pearson, Quality Manager at Spark Response Ltd, explains how her company has adopted the sustainability approach and has benefited from it. Should organisations put the environment on the back burner in the present economic climate? Quite the opposite!

Recorded at the Low Carbon Best Practice Exchange, Newcastle.

Duration 5m 54s

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Stephen Weldon, Group Commercial Manager at The Go-Ahead Group plc explains how sustainability is important to a national transport operator. 1p on a litre of diesel makes a £1m hit on the bottom line! Sustainability helps keep these costs under control.

Recorded at the Newcastle Low Carbon Best Practice Exchange

Duration 5m 46s

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Staying in Business, Staying in Profit.

Anthony Day talks about risks and opportunities, sustainability and savings, planning for profit. This is the teleseminar which took place on 31st March. Completed working papers will shortly be available.

The next live teleseminar will take place on 21st April.

Duration 45m 27s

Anthony Day talks to David Boomer, spokesman for the Institute of Directors on Environment, about investing in energy efficiency, government action, the coming energy gap and that third runway at Heathrow. Apologies for the background noise! Visit my website at www.anthony-day.com for more. Duration 11m 22s

Where do you go for financial services - London? New York? Zurich? Anthony Day talks to Martin Worner who works in all these centres - from his offices in Richmond, Yorkshire. His team produces highly sophisticated software products for international clients and they do it in one of the most attractive parts of the country. It's not just a nice place to live, it's sustainability in action - it's an environmentally responsible business. Listen to Martin Worner, MD of The City Secret, and learn more.

Anthony Day talks to Julian Walker-Palin, Head of Corporate Policy for Sustainability and Ethics at ASDA. Can businesses afford to be green or should they concentrate on growth? How is ASDA going to save 100,000 tonnes of CO2 in 2009? What do we do about excessive packaging, and why does ASDA run its own recycling centres? Hear Julian's answers, and his predictions for the next few years.

Anthony Day in a recent radio interview about electric cars.

Riding the recession - the COBRA™ Coefficient of Change - Is Sustainability Still Relevant? - Power Failure - Planning to Survive. The latest update from Anthony Day

In this issue there’s nothing about the credit crunch and the banking crisis – well not much. What I will be talking about is why the rich will be travelling by horse and cart (not), whether windfall taxes could hit your business, are you ready for the Carbon Reduction Commitment and what will the Climate Change Bill mean for you? Where will you be when the lights go out? According to a new report from Professor Ian Fells you’ll be in the dark pretty regularly from 2014 onwards. And I also bring you the PR Failure of the Month, windfalls to windmills and the worst job in the world. The SPECIAL OFFER at the Harrogate conference is here www.carbon-innovation.com/anthonyday Find out more about Clive Gott at www.clivegott.com The music on this episode is Greensleeves by Lee Harris and the Tijuana Trumpets. Find more like this at www.music.podshow.com

Now, more than ever, we need to plan to be sure our organisations stay in business and stay in profit. Scenario planning is not about predicting the future - it's about predicting how your organisation will perform depending on how the world changes. Once you know the possible outcomes you can be ready with a range of strategies to meet them.

Duration: 5.53

A paper presented to ASTIN 2008, the colloquium of the International Association of Actuaries by Anthony Day. If you would like a copy of the paper please email me at mail@anthony-day.com or call me on 01904 654986

Duration: 20.30

Anthony Day talks about energy with Paul Jacobs at City Talk 105.9 - The Voice of Liverpool

Find out more at www.citytalk.fm

Duration: 9.20

Interviews with participants at London’s event of the week. John Neame, who had the original idea, on how it started and how it’s developing; Lyn Roberts from Coherent Research on how to track energy usage; Pascal Bouquet from Metnext explains how tracking the weather helps you predict energy demand; and Rick Wallis from NEC shows how latest developments in thin-client technology can help save energy. Nigel Wilkinson from T-mobile tells me about his case study about installing 6,000 smart meters and then Naomi Kelt and Caroline Whistlecraft describe how co2balance.com can help your organisation become carbon neutral. Finally, Ashley Lodge, Corporate Responsibility Manager of Harper Collins and founder member of the Publishers’ Green Network, talks about his work.

The next Low Carbon Innnovation Exchange will be in Harrogate on 22^nd October (www.carbon-innovation.com) but in the meantime call me, Anthony Day, to talk about sustainable business – how your organisation can stay in business and stay in profit.

 

Presented by Anthony Day

 

Duration: 27.38

Tanker drivers back at work - oil price stable (more or less) - Dyson to build electric cars and Honda launches a hydrogen car - five new main railway lines - retail sales up in May - Gordon in Saudi - ...and a renewable energy strategy which will cut our use of oil. So is it all over?

Anthony Day

Duration: 5.40

Hauliers and labour MPs threatening to rebel - why it's all the government's fault - how oil prices and energy prices will affect a lot more than just fuel - review your supply chain - join me at London's Low Carbon Innovation Exchange on 26th June.

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Duration 7:15

The oil price - again. Personal Carbon Trading: the Environmental Audit Committee wants it but the government doesn't. The folly of feed-in tariffs and subsidising micro-generation. Predicting the future - "for entertainment only?" Best Practice for Environmental Champions at the London Low Carbon Exchange, 26th June.

I'm Anthony Day. Call me if you want to know more - 07803 616877 - or see the website www.anthony-day.com

Duration: 14:34

Oil pushing $120/barrel again - a petiton to reduce VAT on fuel duty - Americans to remove fuel tax altogether - commercial vehicle protest - Rockerfellers lobby Exxon - adapting to the high cost of energy.

Presented by Anthony Day

Duration: 4.18

I chair the Scottish Carbon Reduction Summit. Philip Wright from the Scottish Government spoke about Bali and Denmark 2009. Plans to assess the carbon footprint of Scottish government activity. Anthony Johnson from Stephenson Harwood on Legal Foundations of a Low Carbon Economy and Alasdair Harper from DEFRA on the Carbon Reduction Commitment. Find out about similar events at www.carbon-innovation.com

The Prince of Wales's second May Day Climate Change Summit. Expert opinion from around the world, but disappointing press coverage. Green business is good business - case studies showed how it saves money.

Presented by Anthony Day

Duration 6.52

Today I was interviewed by BBC Radio Three Counties. Adnams, a brewery in their area, have just announced a carbon neutral beer. Jonathan Vernon Smith seemed a bit sceptical, but I think it's a step in the right direction. There's a lot more to do, though.

Have we peaked or have we peaked? – Russian oil at the peak of production; Brazilian oil at the bottom of the sea – Matt Simmons on the global peak – the biofuel bubble; Mandelson and the EU – Stern still warning.

Presented by Anthony Day

Duration: 8 minutes

Presented by Anthony Day

I recently delivered this speech to the Association of Manufacturers of Power Generation Systems at their annual conference at the Institute of Civil Engineers in London. Climate change is a problem, but energy security is even more serious. Opportunities for AMPS members, but a serious challenge for the rest of us!

Duration 30 minutes

Watergate whitewash and the greatest news management failure of the 20th century - what is greenwash? - Greenpeace and greenwash - Brent Spar - incinerators - GM foods; both sides of the debate - is the truth enough? - heads above the parapet - why it will affect your business - give me a call - 01904 654986 or www.anthony-day.com

Duration 18.30

A presentation to the Yorkshire and Humberside branch of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment. What's it all about? - Elements of sustainability: climate change, resource depletion, pollution, the energy crisis - Objections: the scientists don't agree; anything I do is insignificant; it's all the fault of the Chinese; OK, so what's in it for me? - Opportunities and risks for business: physical risks; regulations, standards and taxes; competition and consumer expectations; your reputation: do people want to work with and for you? - Business as role model.

Presented by Anthony Day