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Is there a role for bean-counters in the sustainability revolution? As a former Director of Sustainability Services at KPMG, I have an insider-outsider view. The…
Economy · Business & Finance
Artificial intelligence might make you think of a humanoid robot or increase your anxiety about the security of your job. But AI comes in many…
Economy · Technology & Innovation
As single-use plastic bans begin to bite, the race is on to create substitute materials. To be regenerative, these products should be climate-positive (absorb more…
Economy · Circular Economy
Automating decisions, by definition, takes humans out of the equation. With that comes the risk that ethics are removed as well. Artificial intelligence (AI) is…
Economy · Technology & Innovation
More and more, I’m only trusting and supporting companies that go ‘all-in’ on sustainability. I still see so much greenwashing, bluewashing and (SDG-related) rainbow-washing. The…
Economy · Business & Finance
My simple test for separating sustainability pioneers from pretenders is to look at the extent of their admission (about the scale and urgency of our…
Economy · Business & Finance
Food waste is simply another raw material, if we think creatively. In Italy, designer CRA has developed an innovative juice bar called Feel the Peel…
Economy · Circular Economy
When I was in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean (Ponta Delgada on São Miguel Island in the Azores archipelago), my mind drifted to the…
Economy · Technology & Innovation
New research by UNGC and Russel Reynolds Associates finds three types of sustainability leader: the born believers (45%, with a passion for the environment or…
Economy · Business & Finance
There’s good bacteria and bad bacteria – and the good bacteria is helping us with sustainable innovation. Plastic-eating bacteria have been discovered near a bottle…
Economy · Circular Economy
The battle of the bags rages on – more specifically, on what constitutes a sustainable shopping bag. But surely the answer is simple? Just bring…
Economy · Circular Economy
Can the beer industry be sustainable? Heineken believes they can. By replacing its 6-pack plastic rings with a cardboard topper, the company expects to eliminate…
Economy · Circular Economy
People are biased – that’s just a fact. The problem is that these biases have crept into artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. Harrisburg University…
Economy · Technology & Innovation
What can we learn from the Earth’s 3.8 billion years of experimentation? Besides the great innovation work emerging from biomimicry, I like professor Gregory Unruh’s…
Economy · Technology & Innovation
What if, instead of using fossil fuels, minerals and plants to make products, we worked with nature to grow the materials we need? That’s what…
Economy · Circular Economy
3D printing is taking another leap forward with bioprinting: literally printing three-dimensional living objects. One of the pioneers, Inventia Life Science, is printing living cells…
Economy · Technology & Innovation
Wouldn’t it be great if there was a system that could sustainably generate fuels, replenish our damaged soils, reclaim water and grow nutritious food, all…
Economy · Technology & Innovation
At last, finance for sustainability is starting to stick. One indicator of this is the boom in green, climate and social bonds, which are expected…
Economy · Business & Finance
Until now, ESG-related bonds have been largely ‘green’ – but social bonds look set to surge in 2020. For example, Alphabet Inc. has just made…
Economy · Business & Finance
As the circular economy gains traction, there’s a new job category emerging: the materials broker. Much like a mortgage broker who matches home buyers and…
Economy · Circular Economy
What will it take to turn our buildings from sterile mausoleums into living ecosystems? Can we reinvent buildings to be less like economic factories and…
Economy · Technology & Innovation
I must confess, litter drives me crazy—and the worst is cigarette butts. Not only are they unsightly and take up to 10 years to biodegrade…
Economy · Circular Economy
These days, petrochemical is a dirty word, and rightly so, since it is associated with a dirty, pollution- and climate-causing industry. But chemistry itself is…
Economy · Circular Economy
Concrete is an extremely durable material, which is why it has become ubiquitous in construction. Unfortunately, its key ingredient, cement, accounts for about 7% of…
Economy · Circular Economy
Three quarters of workers think 2020 has been the most stressful year ever and 85% find that mental health issues at work spill over into…
Economy · Technology & Innovation
What if plastic waste and chemical pollution could be turned back into useful products? That is the goal of chemcycling, which BASF first demonstrated in…
Economy · Circular Economy
Should consumers be given a choice whether to buy sustainable or not? Or should manufacturers and retailers practice what is called ‘choice editing’, which means…
Economy · Business & Finance
The circular economy is not a new idea. Its roots go back to conceptions of Spaceship Earth in the 1960s, eco-balance assessments in the 1970s…
Economy · Circular Economy
We know about blue-collar, white-collar and even green-collar workers. Now we see the rise of new-collar professionals. There are exciting careers emerging that support Industry…
Economy · Technology & Innovation
Unilever’s new 10-year Compass strategy replaces the transformational Sustainable Living Plan that was the legacy of former CEO Paul Polman. There was some concern that…
Economy · Business & Finance