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Who Buys AI for Waste, Water and Environmental Work? An Analysis of 97 Public Tenders
We read every public AI notice in the UK and EU. 97 buy AI for waste, water or nature, and none is for reuse or repair.
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Why Europeans repair, and why their bills have little to do with it
Among 27,498 Europeans, difficulty paying bills made no detectable difference to repairing once like was compared with like. Environmental concern, education and country did.
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Scotland’s Circular Economy System Map
Governance and funding of Scotland’s circular economy: the public bodies, the money flows between them, the regulations taking effect to 2030 and the cost pressures on councils. Verified against primary sources.
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Is Generative AI Sustainable? The Honest Answer in 2026
Not sustainable, not unsustainable: unmeasured. A synthesis of the vendor audits, the energy and water research, a Claude vs ChatGPT comparison table, and what changes when California SB253 bites in November 2026.
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How Much Water Does AI Actually Use?
Around three-quarters of AI’s water is consumed at power stations, not in data centres. What the 2026 research shows, why national averages cannot answer the question, and why the UK case differs from the US.
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AI Training for Leadership Teams
AI training for leadership teams is a short, hands-on programme that does two things. It gives the executive team the judgment to decide what to delegate to AI, how to check what comes back and which risks to govern, and it starts the system through which the whole organisation learns to use it. The second…
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A Claude Code Skill That Builds, Researches and Stress Tests Business Models
I wrote two Claude Code skills that build, research and stress test business models, published them under an MIT licence, and pointed them at a project I ran myself. In 2021 I worked with the Government of Seychelles on ReNeT, a circular economy project for the industrial tuna fleet’s end-of-life fishing nets. The system design…
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VSME Reporting for SMEs: An AI Workflow for the Voluntary Standard
The 2026 Omnibus rollback narrowed mandatory CSRD reporting to the largest companies, those over 1,000 employees and €450 million turnover. It did not remove sustainability data from the economy. It pushed the request one step down the value chain. The large companies still in scope, and the banks that lend to everyone, still need supplier…
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Is ChatGPT Sustainable? OpenAI’s Environmental Report Card
I use ChatGPT most days, alongside Claude and the other frontier tools, and I write about using these models for sustainability research. None of that answers the question a client, a peer, or a sustainability event keeps putting to me. Is ChatGPT sustainable? Is OpenAI sustainable as a company? Can I credibly advise a client…
