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Business Leadership & Sustainability: Head, Heart & Hands with Profs Julia Binder & Knut Haanaes

Jan 24, 2025

This week on the Net Zero Business Podcast, I'm joined by the two editors/lead authors on a new book 'Leading the Sustainable Business Transformation', Prof...

Don’t stop the rot – what fungi can teach us about the circular economy

Dec 11, 2024

Last Thursday, I went to a celebration of all things fungal in Durham at a World Soil Day event organised by my partner, Prof Karen...

Incentivising the circular/low carbon economy

Dec 2, 2024

As the author of five Sustainability books, and a massive consumer of second hand books, I am all too aware of a massive misalignment of...

Circular Economy Insights at NERF

Nov 21, 2024

Yesterday, I attended the North East Recycling Forum (NERF) Annual Conference in the impressive setting of Durham Town Hall (see pic). I love this event...

Sustainability and Small Business with Jasper Steinhausen

Sep 6, 2024

So, it's September and the Net Zero Business Podcast is back with a brand new interview, and it's a corker! Jasper Steinhausen, author of Making...

What does zero impact on the environment really mean?

Mar 20, 2024

Yesterday I was at an ESG event when a delegate asked whether Net Zero meant zero people? Not being on the platform, I didn't get...

Adieu to the disposable vape, you won’t be missed

Jan 29, 2024

We've now got to the stage of parenting where all three kids make their own way to school, erasing the natural boundary between breakfast and...

Elisa Gasperini of Ahlsell on Net Zero/SBTs, circular economy and authenticity

Dec 8, 2023

Elisa Gasperini, Head of Sustainability at huge Nordic construction suppliers Ahlsell, talks about her own Sustainability journey, the benefits of Science-based Targets in addition to...

Stop dissing recycling!

Oct 26, 2021

Yesterday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson bullishly overrode the opinions of the expert sitting next to him and told a group of schoolkids that recycling "doesn't...

Does ‘upcycling’ actually exist?

Jun 17, 2021

Every time I hear or read a reference to 'upcycling', my instinctive response is "Really?" The word is often used by chi-chi second hand furniture...

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