Sustainability Solved by Will Richardson

One planned data centre in Yorkshire could emit nearly twice the CO2 of every Gatwick flight in a year. That is where this week’s sustainability news starts. In this week’s top 10 sustainability news countdown, I take...

I share how helping the B Corp community, rather than selling to it, built Green Element's most robust long-term sales funnel. Subscribe for weekly sustainability intelligence, and tell me in the comments which story...

Local opposition has cancelled 260 billion dollars of US data centre projects this year, and Washington now wants the rest to pay for the grid they need. That's my number one story in this week's sustainability...

"It is not the critic who counts." Theodore Roosevelt's words sum up 25 years of helping organisations with sustainability better than anything I could write. In this episode of Sustainability Solved, I explain why the...

The EU's new green claims rules went live on 27 September, and they change what every business selling into Europe can say about sustainability. In this week's countdown I take you through the 10 sustainability stories...

The planet just had its annual check-up, and seven of the nine planetary boundaries that keep Earth liveable are now breached. In this episode I walk through what the 2026 Planetary Health Check actually tells us, in...

After more than 220 episodes, Sustainability Solved is changing. Weekly instead of monthly, with guest hosts running their own mini-series in their own fields. The final part of seven. In this episode: Seb Munden on...

Data centres are about to get a sustainability label, and most businesses have no idea which ones they rely on. That's where this week's countdown lands, and it's the second week running they've taken the top spot. I've...

I was told I did not have the academic ability to finish my masters in a year. I finished in a year, with good results. Part six of seven on why Sustainability Solved is changing format. In this episode: the one person...

A travel agent sold me a round the world ticket in ten minutes. A thesis on snowboarding in the Cairngorms quietly built the rest of my career. Part five of seven on why Sustainability Solved is changing format. In this...

We spent thirty years cleaning up the air over Europe. It worked, and new analysis says it has made the warming faster. That is the fact I could not stop thinking about this week, and it is waiting for you at the end of...

At nineteen I was offered the chance to be the youngest pub manager in the UK. I turned it down because of who told me to. Part four of seven on why Sustainability Solved is changing format. In this episode: managing...

I walked into hundreds of pubs before one offered me a job, on condition I dressed up as a chicken. It is still the best lesson in communication I have ever had. Part three of seven on why Sustainability Solved is...

This week confirmed something climate scientists have been tracking for years: the 1.5-degree target is no longer achievable. The UN's latest report projects a best-case scenario of 1.8 degrees of warming. That's not a...

Rainwater harvesting, a reed bed and a solar thermal shower in a Welsh cow field. The engineering was never the hard part. Part two of seven on why Sustainability Solved is changing format. In this episode: how a...