Posts Tagged: green innovation

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 [...]

This morning hundreds of people in green hard hats gathered in central London. Under the banner of Stop Climate Chaos, organisations as diverse as the Women’s Institute, faith groups, Oxfam, TearFund, renewable energy companies, trade unions and charities including WWF called on the government to do one thing: boost our economy and international leadership by [...]

There’s a big push this week to promote investment in the shift to a green economy, to get the UK on the road to economic recovery. Our new report, ‘Building green economies’, shows why this is essential and how it can be done. Recent analysis has shown the growing importance of low-carbon and environmental industries [...]

Many of us often complain about the slow pace of change – the slow trudge towards a green economy – but there are reasons to be excited. So many business plans are getting a real make-over right now. Just over the last few weeks, there have been some impressively well organised deep dives with companies [...]

There is a big political push at the moment for “growth”. Rejuvenated after watching the Olympics and sitting on beaches, politicians have returned to Westminster at the start of September determined to do something about the UK’s stubbornly stagnant GDP figures, the statistic which is used to measure the rate of economic growth. If we [...]

Before the Games in June, Katherine Symonds from Coca-Cola told us about what they would be doing to keep a lid on their Olympic waste and drive a legacy of recycling for London. Now, with the Olympics behind us and the Paralympics underway, Katherine has found time to tell us more about their sustainability initiatives [...]