Creating Eco-Friendly Businesses: Interview with Anousha Junggee
Anousha Junggee is a leader in creating Eco-friendly businesses in Africa: she is the co-founder and director at 1950 Design & Print and founder of Eco Hustle Co Ltd , a company that has two Eco-friendly brands: Sakili (up-cycled bags
Europe’s Centrality to the Circular Economy
Lacking the expansive resource endowments and sheer size of continents like North America, Australia, and Africa, Europe has always been at the forefront of material efficiency. The continent routinely leads the world in key sustainability endeavors, such as high rates
Capitalism is Broken, Here’s How to Fix It
Book Review “ People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent ” by Joseph. E. Stiglitz (published by W.W. Norton & Co, April 23, 2019) Joseph Stiglitz’s latest book, People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age
Supporting the Arts Should Be a Part of Your Business Strategy
The time of grey suits is coming to the end – business now strives to be more innovative, creative and inclusive. To achieve that, we can look towards something that’s already all these things – the arts. Some years ago The
We the Change, Women Together Envision a Better Earth Through Better Business
This article is part of an editorial collaboration with BCorporation. The BCorp Series can be found here. The original publication can be found here. B Corp Women CEOs Build on Collective Power It's the morning after the Oscars and I did it again. Despite all
On Masculinity, Intellectual Sparring, And Comedy
I’ve had one fist-fight in my life. It happened when I was ogling three girls who had climbed, semi-provocatively, on top of a long desk in our 6th grade classroom. A prepubescent boy—a rival—moved to take my spot. We jockeyed
Are Pigs the Canaries in the Coalmine for Human Epidemics?
In 2018 there was a small hog farm in China which was found to have the hugely contagious virus known as African Swine fever, this in the country with half the world’s pigs. Shortly after the initial outbreak the government
The Ripple Effect of Investing in Women and Tech
Investing in women is an investment in the world, and fortunately, the majority of investors recognize the importance of investing in gender-balanced teams. But achieving gender equity calls for more than agreement. Less than 10 percent of these same investors
CBSS Baltic 2030 Action Plan: The Role of the Health Sector and Biotechnology in Lithuania and the Baltic Sea Region
CBSS Baltic 2030 Action Plan The Baltic Sea Region with the Baltic 2030 Action Plan of the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS), approved back in 2017, is one of the pivotal geographical areas where various actors are helping to
Drones Planting Trees: An interview with BioCarbon Engineering
Deforestation, whether it is consequence of a catastrophe or directly done by humans, is one the greatest problems for our planet and it can, of course, affect our future. BioCarbon Engineering aims to be the solution against deforestation and to
Don’t Overpay for Your Accomodation — An Interview With BYHOURS
Sustainable development of hotel and tourism industries plays a significant role in achieving the SDGs. A large number of island and Southern European countries (like the Maldives, the Seychelles, Montenegro, Croatia and others) strongly depend on income from travelers around
The Global Crisis of Antimicrobial Resistance: How to Fight It
Antimicrobial resistance has grown in recent years as a result of the overuse of antibiotics. Drugs no longer work as they used to. The alarm was rung in April 2019 by a UN group of experts in a report sent