What is it? Where did it come from? Why?

Sustainability is a word we all hear a lot, but what does it actually mean? This talk is both serious and humorous, unorthodox and enlightening, and it has a fair bit of audience participation. It brings together economics, business, legislation, history and science. Paul takes you on a “join the dots” tour of many disparate, argumentative and crucial discussions across a variety of stakeholders.

It’s a fascinating whirlwind tour of how we came to be where we are now, and it’s bizarre. You couldn’t make this stuff up, even if you tried!

You will take away your own personal action plan. Not how to be more “sustainability” oriented, but how to handle the awkward questions on the journey. How to counter the doubters, and how to do that diplomatically, whilst advocating a broader understanding of the subject.

Less about disparate, argumentative bluster, and more about encouragement, sympathy and the power of persuasion. Is that something you’d be interested in?

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This talk is intended for a lecture theatre and requires the audience to be near enough to the speaker to permit at least some two way discussion. Paul is accustomed to large and small venues, and can modify the content as long as a minimum of the one or two rows of delegates can engage in dialogue.

Normally, the talk runs for anything between 15 and 30 minutes. A longer version is possible in a workshop style setting where (after the formal talk) the delegates can all interact with the speaker, and can all have enough space to use pen and paper. That leads to a lively Q&A. The talk + workshop version is ideally suited to a 60 min slot.