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When we go to see a big Hollywood movie, we expect the special effects to be spectacular. When we go to a fancy restaurant, we expect the service…
Did you know that you can buy biodegradable tape? Sellotape produces a range of biodegradable tapes that work very well (I have a roll here I have been…
I find that pretty much every hotel I stay in now has a note in the bathroom saying that the hotel believes strongly in sustainability and therefore have…
Every time I travel I get annoyed at the duty free shops. Every airport has one and regardless of where you are, they all sell mostly the same…
This morning I was out walking around the Byward market in Ottawa (Canada). At this time of the year you find mostly stands selling local maple syrup (right…
This past weekend I gave a lecture for an MBA course at Anglia Ruskin University, and we took the opportunity to do a little bit of sightseeing in…
I picked up a copy of the Sunday Times on…well…Sunday which was wrapped in two layers of plastic wrapping. On the plastic wrapping I saw out of the…
I read an interesting little article on the BBC website today called “Can you justify your job title?”. Having recently completed an MBA where I remember being amazed…
Monday night was another successful part of “The Sustainable MBA Speaker Series” hosted by London Business School focused on Marketing and Sustainability Sustainability! Now onto the third event…
InterfaceFLOR, a leading company in business and sustainability has recently ordered 100 copies of the book “The Sustainable MBA: The Manager’s Guide to Green Business” which they will…
When I used to live in Paris I created my own law. If you aren’t going to use your balcony, put plants on it, enjoy it, you shouldn’t…
Electronic waste, or e-waste includes mobile phones, computers, televisions, audio equipment, printers etc. The amount of electronic products discarded globally is 20-50 million tones every year. It now…
Last night the first event of “The Sustainable MBA Series” at London Business School focused on Careers in Sustainability went very well! Now onto the second event in…
February 22nd until the 7th of March is the Fairtrade Fortnight. It is two weeks to celebrate and support fairtrade products. Look for this label on the products…
Have you seen that US show Ace of Cakes? It is all about a crazy group of people that make absolutely incredible cakes in Baltimore. During one episode…
Over the next year we will be organizing a series of events around the main topics of the book. The first three will be hosted by London Business…
This week I had the chance to meet up with an old friend, Philippa White, the fantastic founder and managing director of The International Exchange (or TIE for…
Fact to ponder today… “Except for a small amount that is incinerated, every bit of plastic manufactured in the world in the past 50 years remains somewhere intact”…
The Sustainable MBA: The Manager’s Guide to Green Business is printed on FSC paper. On the back cover and on the inside of the book you will see…