News: Prize money wins for circular start-ups
News: Two award-winning start-up businesses, launched to help drive the transition to a circular economy, have received £10,000 in prize money.
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Davos: Holding out for a hero
Davos 2020: From climate celebrities to the Circularity Gap, the sustainability story of the Swiss Alps shows business is still holding out for a hero.
Read moreCarbon + circularity: ‘Future of Construction’ in The Times
Future of Construction: Articles for report in ‘The Times’ newspaper explore the challenges of cutting carbon and how a circular economy can really happen.
Read moreGuest Blog: Are you an unwitting polluter?
GUEST BLOG: Eco-conscious consumers are cutting plastic, but confused about how they can help most… When it comes to recycling, do you have the best of intentions, but not always the information or knowledge to match? Are you an unwitting polluter? In this SustMeme Guest Post, Yanyan Ji, SVP Marketing at Gazelle, a known leader in electronic waste, talks us […]
Read moreSustainability: ‘Fashion Economy’ in The Times
New writing… Pleased to say I have had another article published in The Times newspaper, as part of a special Raconteur report on the Fashion Economy. The piece profiles five pioneering brands employing innovative methods to reuse and recycle everything from textiles, to waste tyres, fire hoses and fishing nets. They are rethinking and remanufacturing the process of creating and crafting how […]
Read moreExplainer: How Microplastics Threaten Our Environment
Microplastic pollution is being found everywhere, literally: it is in our rivers; on our gardens; in the food we eat; it is even now in human poop. Perhaps the worst aspect of microplastic pollution is that no effective and efficient way of removing the full range of debris has yet been found. The EU has, however, recently proposed a wide-ranging […]
Read moreCircularity: The word snowballing down from Davos
How the launch of the Circularity Gap Report 2019 helped link the issues of circular economy and climate change, lifting circularity up the agenda at Davos.
Read moreCircularity: ‘Future of Construction’ in The Times
New writing… Pleased to say I have had another article published in The Times newspaper, as part of a special Raconteur report on the Future of Construction. BAMB is on a mission: its goal is a systemic shift in sustainable building; its focus, construction waste and material consumption. As the name implies, Buildings as Material Banks (BAMB) reimagines a building as a dynamic […]
Read moreChanging the word on waste: ‘Future of Food’ in The Times
1.6bn tonnes of food are lost or binned worldwide, every year – my article for report in ‘The Times’ newspaper on why we need to change the word on waste.
Read morePlastics & Circularity: ‘Future of Packaging’ in The Times
New writing…. Pleased to say I have had another couple of articles published in The Times newspaper, as part of a special Raconteur report on the Future of Packaging. Ocean plastic is not a new problem, however it took David Attenborough and Blue Planet II to turn the tide of public opinion. My opening article investigates how prime-time endorsement of the core sustainability message proved […]
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