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Why Scope 3 Supplier Programmes Stall: Price Still Beats Carbon

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 countdown. I take you through the 10 sustainability stories that mattered most to busine…

AI’s Hidden Water Bill and 9 More Sustainability Signals Business Leaders Need This Week

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 you through the stories business leaders and sustainability professionals need to…

Have We Reached Peak AI? The Data Centre Question

I was asked to run masterclasses on the environmental impact of AI, and I paused. My gut feeling is that AI’s environmental impact could dissipate within a year, possibly sooner. In this episode I look at why. People are already building language models on phones. Heavy users like me may have reach…

Starbucks Reusable Cups and the Missing Return Rate

Starbucks says its reusable cup scheme cuts waste. I went looking for the independent study that proves it; there isn’t one. The maths on reusable cups genuinely works, as long as each cup gets used enough times to beat the single-use cup it replaces. Starbucks has published strong return rates fro…

Big Tech’s 215Mt Carbon Forecast: Sustainability News Top 10

Five tech companies are forecast to emit around 215 million tonnes of CO2e this year. That’s more than most countries, and it lands straight in your Scope 3. This is the Monday countdown: the 10 sustainability stories that got the most coverage this week, ranked and explained in plain English. If y…

Five Sustainability Lies Your Marketing Team Is Telling

One of my founder reflections is that your marketing team is probably making at least one sustainability claim right now that won’t hold up. Not on purpose; regulators are looking for exactly these claims, and they’re finding them. We go through the five claims under the most pressure: a “certifie…

November 2026 - Bending Over Backwards

Send us Fan Mail In November's episode of When in Frome, Sonia runs away to join the circus (well, almost!) for her latest challenge, while Daisy puts her body through its paces with both reformer and mat Pilates, discovering muscles she never knew she had!We meet our latest Local Legend, Suzy from…

AI's Gas-Powered Emissions Bill: Sustainability News Top 10

The gas plants being built to power AI in the US could undo fifteen years of power-sector emissions cuts by 2030. It's the second week running that AI's emissions bill tops the countdown, and it now sits in almost every company's Scope 3. This is the weekly sustainability news top 10 for sustainabi…

The Climate Strategy That Works: Sustainability News Top 10

Of eight things the world's biggest companies do on climate, only one is linked to emissions actually falling. Trellis has the study, and it's at number 7. This is the Monday countdown: ten sustainability stories ranked by how much coverage they got across the newsletters I read, from Trellis and …

Food Waste, Firewood and Saving Things for Best

I've had a woodshed full of firewood for six years, and I've barely burned any of it. A Halloween fire pit with friends made me stop and work out why, and it led me straight back to food waste. This is a short story episode about where waste starts, where it ends, and why one person's waste is ano…