Posts Tagged: green innovation

“The idea of a planet where humanity flourishes, sustainably, alongside other species, underscores everything WWF does. And perhaps the most magical quality that great architecture bestows comes in its capacity to help us flourish.” I’ve lifted that quote out of Kevin McCloud’s celebration of WWF’s brand new Living Planet Centre in Woking, which had its [...]

Scientists and world governments have spoken: climate change is unequivocal, its risks are real and our impact is clearer than ever. The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report launched last Friday is quite simply the most authoritative and comprehensive review of climate science available. It’s been prepared by over 800 scientists, cites over [...]

Our overuse of natural resources to clothe, house, feed, transport and entertain us is escalating. And global carbon emissions continue to exceed the planet’s carbon sequestration capacity. The day in the year by which we use up our annual ecological budget arrives ever earlier as the decades go by. ‘Earth Overshoot Day’ was estimated by [...]

Between my finger and my thumb / The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.  (Seamus Heaney). These days it’s a smartphone between our fingers and thumbs and we are more attracted to tweeting and texting with pace than to writing with profoundness, although I will make a poor attempt at this as I write [...]

With 400 parts per million (ppm) of CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere, there’s new pressure to build a more positive economy. At the same time, two trends – the combination of digital natives directing new models of consumption and the do-it-yourself revolution – offer the perfect opportunity to disrupt and repair broken systems. Let’s start [...]

The wisdom of the crowd was particularly evident at our pivotal Net Positive conference. The attendees – 200 sustainability experts – offered many great insights for firms stepping up a gear. Their guide to going net positive is available via Green Mondays. For a company to reach a net positive result, it’ll need to make [...]

John Compton manages Streetclub by B&Q (Kingfisher), which is the first social network aimed at getting neighbours at street level to talk, share and save together to build a stronger sense of community spirit. B&Q is exploring models of collaborative consumption by creating social network sites such as Streetclub and is featured in WWF’s new [...]

Manik Jolly, director of rural solar solutions at solar energy firm SunEdison, launched Eradication of Darkness – an electrification programme in rural India. . . The programme is featured in WWF’s new report, Green Game-Changers: Insights for mainstreaming business innovation. “Can you imagine not having electricity? Or being reliant on a diesel generator that provides [...]

Think new “I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones” – these words, from composer John Cage, ring especially true to me when considering the gulf between businesses that are glued to outmoded approaches, and others that are breaking in new, innovative models. It’s a topic WWF [...]

We hear a lot about ‘green jobs’ but it can be hard to pin down what that actually means and how many there are. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has helpfully published this graphic which gives a snapshot of investment and jobs announced in the growing renewable energy sector from April last [...]