by DavidSpratt | Jul 8, 2022 | Planet Spratt
I began my journey to a sustainable future envisaging a world of tree-hugging, lentil soup and freedom from reporting fuss. Little did I know that the bureaucrats had got in ahead of me and set up a rules-based order that made tax returns look like a walk to the...
by DavidSpratt | May 3, 2022 | Carbon Neutral, COP26, Energy, IoT, Sustainable Business
A recent Microsoft report on New Zealand’s sustainability performance shows that more than three quarters of NZ businesses now have carbon reduction plans and policies. But that’s where the green wave crashes into a wall – and uncertainty about costs is a major...
by DavidSpratt | Apr 21, 2022 | Analytics, Planet Spratt, Sustainable Business
Part Three of Planet Spratt’s Journey to Sustainability The tragedy of the commons is an economic problem in which every individual has an incentive to consume a resource, but at the expense of every other individual—with no way to exclude anyone from consuming....
by DavidSpratt | Mar 24, 2022 | Carbon Neutral, Planet Spratt, Sustainable Business
A Journey to Sustainability with Planet Spratt Jims Arboretum Legacy “If a thousand years were to pass in a second what would be left of us?” The Dig – Movie I read somewhere that the best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The next best time is today. Autumn...
by DavidSpratt | Feb 22, 2022 | Sustainable Business, Uncategorized
“I am 75, I have Parkinson’s and I am at the wrong end of the telescope of life” Billy Connolly I may not be facing my mortality in the same dramatic way as our beloved Billy but last November I became an old age pensioner. My Super Gold Card arrived in the mail and...
