The Sustainable Futures Report

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 a...

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...

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 en...

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. Anthony Day - www.anthony-day.com 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 we...

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...

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 bu...

The floods that never happened - and those that did - and their cost to business. Oil price - grin and bear it? Going green at Westminster, and don't forget your Christmas cards! (More next week) Presented by Anthony Day www.anthony-day.com

This week's review of sustainable business comes from the annual convention of the Professional Speakers Association in a week when oil hit $96/barrel. Hear interviews with Will Kintish, ( www.kintish.co.uk ), on the benefits of running teleclasses, Alan Stevens, incoming president, ( www.mediacoach.com ), on getting difficult messages across and Graeme Codrington, ( www.hannahsrules.com )   on ho...

What's the key to sustainable business? This week: will your pension be worth having? See Nick Silver's article in The Actuary - -Training to be Green; an interview with Peter Scott from Motivaction --  A conference with a difference - The Low Carbon Innovations Exchange Presented by Anthony Day - www.anthony-day.com

Thoughts on keeping your business in business - fossil fuels or bio-fuels? - Paul Clarke on why it makes sense to drive a green car ( www.green-car-guide.com ) - carbon targets, carbon trading and better use of resources from Mike Smith at Yorkshire Forward ( www.yorkshire-forward.com ) - and has someone got it in for cows? Presented by Anthony Day - www.anthony-day.com

More airport protests - shipping has a bigger carbon footprint than aviation - Multimap lets you track the carbon cost of your journey - good and bad for Al Gore - creative "recycling" Presented by Anthony Day - www.anthony-day.com

The environmental impact of IT – Carbon labels too costly for business – Carbon footprints at home - Tom Oxley of Norwich Union on green business – "Sea Tubes? to stop climate change? – How green is my Tesco?