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Air pollution matters. Why shoot ourselves in the lung?
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide. Will Rogers (1879-1935) Earlier this month law firm Client Earth won its air pollution case...
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When all around is broken – maintaining optimism for sustainability
Its hard out there… “The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we come to the very first Cause, which...
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2017 – What are the big sustainability issues?
“It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.” Winston Churchill Business sustainability continues to grow in profile and activity. However, do you know if you are...
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Sustainability & freedom: the politics of existence
“To hear men talk in those days, you would have thought that Providence had ordained that…it would be quite possible for the people who made money by buying and selling the natural treasures of the...
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Sustainable Business Model Canvas
We’ve just published our new Sustainable Business Model Canvas – the building blocks for assessing and planning sustainable business models, operations and best practice – all on one page! Get yours...
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It’s the end of the world…but I dont care
“The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, ‘What good is it?’” Aldo Leopold Dont care? Don’t care about the environment? Don’t care about the world around you? Not...
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Sustainable energy systems – what are they and how do we achieve them?
“Direct radiations you must have in order to keep your bodies alive, and to grow your food, and provide fresh water; and they could continue to sustain you for millions of years. But intelligence held...
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Something stinks here – why is there a die in diesel?
How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without? Dwight D. Eisenhower Diesel air pollution is a global issue that has received particular focus here in the...
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Sustainability context – exploring and managing in a complex world
“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.“ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Navigating sustainability context Developing resilient, successful organisations relies...
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Build a sustainable business – on strategic resilience
Building a sustainable business requires understanding sustainability context and the risks and dependencies that matter for your business. Last month we explored this in detail in Navigating...
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Population & consumption – where’s the problem?
“Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. ” Murray Gell-Mann...
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How might the financial system build a sustainable future?
“Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.” Richard P. Feynman On the 14th September 2017 at the Royal Society of Arts, London, we were...
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Decoupling Population and Consumption
“Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds.“ Napoleon Hill We have written about the relationship between human population growth and sustainability issues a number of times....
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Autumn Budget 2017 – funding a sustainable future?
How does budget address sustainability? Here in the UK the Autumn budget is a big thing, even if only for policy wonks and reporters. Everyone else generally tries to ignore it or remain in a state of...
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Sustainability Trends in 2018 and the questions you should ask
“I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.” Ada Lovelace What...
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Sustainable Finance – workshop report
“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.” Winston Churchill The role of sustainable finance In September 2017, as part of the 10 Years after the Crash events, we ran a Towards 9...
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