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Posts tagged "eco-design"

Nov 22, 2024

Most of our Sustainability efforts focus on making things "less bad", but can we go past zero and start making our society good for the...

Aug 9, 2024

This week's podcast is a summer special compilation of my favourite excerpts of our interviews to date on the theme of design and innovation. My...

Jun 30, 2020

I’m writing this in the modern extension of a house which is 125 years old today, more or less (the pic shows the extension going...

Jan 27, 2020

I'm busy planning the next meeting of the Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group on Friday. The topic is one we keep coming back to – making...

Oct 14, 2019

In 1996, I visited the Auschwitz/Birkenau death camps in Poland. I was in two minds about going, with a nagging feeling that I was indulging...

Nov 30, 2018

As a qualified engineer, the good old British taxpayer spent a small fortune teaching me how to make things, but not a penny teaching me...

Oct 19, 2018

As many commentators have pointed out, the irony needle went off the dial this week when the UK Minister of State for Energy and Clean Growth,...

Oct 17, 2018

Regular readers will know I'm a big fan of using the 80:20 Rule for Sustainability. The rule encourages us to cut through the noise and...

Feb 9, 2018

I cannot recall a single television programme in my lifetime which has had a bigger impact on public discourse than Blue Planet II (Cathy Come...

Dec 28, 2017

Mrs K picked up this 2015 book by Cambridge Judge Business School academics Navi Radjou and Jaideep Prabhu for me on the way home from a...