Generative AI
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Can AI Do Recycling Market Research? I Re-Ran a Real Fishing-Net Study to Find Out
In an earlier post on what an AI-augmented consultant actually does, I wrote that on the Seychelles fishing-net work, “the European scan could have been days rather than weeks.” It was a guess. This post tests it on a real piece of recycling market research. The scan in question is the European study I did…
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Claude for Nonprofits, Tested at an Environmental Nonprofit
More than half of UK charities, 56%, say a lack of skills is their biggest barrier to using AI, according to the Charity Digital Skills Report 2026. Anthropic names the same barrier in its October 2026 expansion of Claude for Nonprofits, although it gives no figure for it. I write about sustainability and AI here…
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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…
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Is xAI Sustainable? What SpaceX’s Filings Reveal About Grok’s Footprint
SpaceX’s S-1 shows the federal disclosure floor for xAI. Memphis turbines, Grok efficiency, and how this compares to Claude on environmental disclosure.
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Designing a Claude Workflow for CSRD Compliance
A multi-stage Claude workflow for CSRD that survives limited assurance. Architecture, failure modes, and a skill design.