I spend quite a bit of time in this job chasing PRs or public relations executives as they like to be known (they also probably spend quite a bit of their time chasing people like me, but thats beside the point). Some of this chasing can be fruitful, some of it less so, [...]
Welcome to our new magazine Its no secret that sustainability in the food industry has to be a long-term commercial goal. However, in the current era, it is sometimes difficult to square sustainable ambition with commercial reality. With Grocery Footprint our objective is to untangle the environmental, social and economic issues that affect the [...]
I took a walk down memory lane this month, paying a visit to my old university campus. While there were new veterinary buildings, extra student digs and a plush coffee area (café-couture wasnt big in the 90s), much of the campus I still recognised even my old room (ah, halcyon days). It was surreal [...]
Which would you choose: a voluntary initiative with you all working together to achieve change; or tighter regulation that forces change? Its a tough call. This Government has certainly nailed its (two) colours to the voluntary mast. And the Responsibility Deal is a case a point. The RD has been established to tap into [...]
Beans, beans are good for your heart, the more you eat the more you fart. But that means methane. Which isnt so good for the environment. Now, your limited flatulence may not be causing climate change on the scale that burping cows apparently are, but nonetheless the synergies between what we put in our mouth [...]
In the run-up to the Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen in 2009, Gordon Brown said that we had 50 days to save the world. Suffice to say, amidst this sensationalism very little was achieved at the conference itself. So, here we are nearly 400 days on and to my certain knowledge the world is still [...]
Sustainability is no longer the debate indulged by the big boys. It is a hardhitting commercial reality affecting the entire supply chain. The candour from members of the Footprint Forum, contributors, partners and our readers, never ceases to amaze me. It is these people, from all stages of the supply chain, who are ahead of [...]
Rory Sutherland, in a July column about climate change in The Spectator, concluded “Perhaps right-wing people can learn to like environmentalism the way left-wing people learn to like Wagner – by separating the outcome from the motivation”. Whilst I don’t necessarily subscribe to the premise that any specific area of the political spectrum underwrites environmentalism, [...]
This, for us, is a special issue of Foodservice Footprint. It is our 2nd Anniversary Issue and whilst we still regard ourselves as in our infancy, it is hugely rewarding to see the strides we as an industry have taken in the last two years on the road to sustainability. 3 years ago when [...]
