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In a complex, fast-changing world, leaders need more than ever to have a clear picture of what is happening around them, and to chart a simple way forward. It empowers leaders to create their own routemaps to a more successful enterprise, and at the same time move step by step towards long term stability and sustainability.

Good news:
16/06/2022

Good news:

Spanish carrier orders 10 helium-filled Airlander 10 aircraft in boost for UK green tech and maker HAV

"Scientists have discovered a chemical phase of sulfur that stops battery degradation. They were so shocked by the disco...
23/04/2022

"Scientists have discovered a chemical phase of sulfur that stops battery degradation. They were so shocked by the discovery that they checked 100 times to ensure the result was real.

As with most accidental discoveries, the scientists haven’t yet figured out what is actually happening. So further research is needed.

If successful, lithium-sulfur batteries could give electric vehicles a range of thousands of miles."

Which also means that batteries will last much longer before they need to be replaced, which reduces the drain on our finite natural resources. (And lowers prices.)

A lucky discovery involving lithium-sulfur batteries has a legitimate chance to revolutionize how we power our world.

Just in time has changed to just in case."With supply chains becoming more complex and natural disasters disrupting them...
21/12/2021

Just in time has changed to just in case.

"With supply chains becoming more complex and natural disasters disrupting them more often, “you have to reinvent ‘just in time’,” says Oscar de Bok, who runs DHL’s supply chain business. “You can’t plan it as lean any more as you wanted it in the past.”"

Businesses exposed by pandemic shortages and shipping bottlenecks are being forced to rethink their operations

It's finally reached the mainstream:"Sustainability is becoming the business itself and not a separate agenda. Corporati...
14/12/2021

It's finally reached the mainstream:

"Sustainability is becoming the business itself and not a separate agenda. Corporations need to re-think all part of the business, redesigning and redefining their strategy and operational processes to meet the changes, needs and expectations of the market and society alike that support long-term value."

This is the event description, set in the properties tool on the right, that can be used to automatically populate other event touchpoints like emails.

Given the crisis facing nature, it is easy to give up hope. Yet around the globe wetlands are being rebuilt, deforestati...
29/03/2021

Given the crisis facing nature, it is easy to give up hope.

Yet around the globe wetlands are being rebuilt, deforestation is slowing (in some places), and numbers of some of our rarest creatures are rising.

People are making this change happen.

Earth Optimism is happening in conjunction with the Cambridge Festival between 26 March and 4 April 2021.

In other words, NOW.

Earth Optimism is a worldwide movement aimed at fundamentally shifting how we frame the environmental narrative, from one of doom and gloom to one focused on solutions and success.

Some good news from Scotland:
29/03/2021

Some good news from Scotland:

NEARLY 100 per cent of Scotland’s electricity demand was generated from renewables last year, new figures have revealed.

"No country in the world currently meets the basic needs of its citizens at a globally sustainable level of resource use...
29/03/2021

"No country in the world currently meets the basic needs of its citizens at a globally sustainable level of resource use."

This research quantifies the national resource use associated with achieving a good life in more than 150 countries. It shows that -- at the efficiencies with which we currently use resources -- meeting the basic needs of everyone on the planet would lead humanity to pass several environmental limits.

This interactive map plots national performance on seven environmental sustainability indicators together with eleven minimum social thresholds for a good life.

Use the BIOPHYSICAL tab to see the biophysical boundaries that countries currently transgress and the SOCIAL tab to see the social thresholds that they currently achieve.

Where we need to get to is that no nation passes any biophysical boundary and all minimum social thresholds are met.

Use this interactive world map to see the number of biophysical boundaries that different countries transgress in comparison to the number of social thresholds that they achieve.

“This world is ready for regenerative change. It’s going to be a complete change of our behaviour as a species in the lo...
20/03/2021

“This world is ready for regenerative change. It’s going to be a complete change of our behaviour as a species in the longer term. It is going to be a step as big as fire was for humanity.”

In China, scientists have turned vast swathes of arid land into a lush oasis. Now a team of maverick engineers want to do the same to the Sinai

Welcome to the future.The world's second largest retailer is experimenting with party dresses for hire, clothes repairs,...
24/02/2021

Welcome to the future.

The world's second largest retailer is experimenting with party dresses for hire, clothes repairs, and a beauty salon.

It is rethinking its stores as playing an integrated role in the logistics of online selling. What kind of experiences are there in a store? Are there different formats? "It is all about building the relationship with the customer."

At the same time, the pandemic has forced increased use of technology. But this now enables designers, suppliers, and the production office to produce new clothes together, rather than waiting for one to send a garment to another.

Accessories can now go from conception to store in a few weeks, T-shirts in six weeks, and trousers in eight.

And with good data providing strong customer insight, you can act much more quickly.

The chief executive, Helena Helmersson, is a former head of sustainability at H&M and is the first CEO to be appointed from outside the family.

World’s second-largest clothes retailer rethinks role of shops

“18 months ago . . . only 25 per cent of the world had a decarbonisation horizon. Today, 75 per cent of the world econom...
04/02/2021

“18 months ago . . . only 25 per cent of the world had a decarbonisation horizon. Today, 75 per cent of the world economy has a decarbonisation horizon. This is a major shift.”

New power structures will emerge along with the transition. “The [old] levers of control, a lot of them will dissipate and simply cease to exist,” “A new class of energy exporters may emerge on the global scene.”

China is the current winner -- in buying mines for cobalt etc, in developing battery technology, in 'helping' countries develop their own renewable energy sources. (Though they still emit a lot of CO2.)

And once we are post-oil there will be less need for war.

Whether the transition will be fast enough is another matter.

As the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy gathers speed, what does it mean for the balance of power?

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