A Focus on Sustainable Design at London Design Festival The annual London Design Festival is soon to start. In 2018, design and many types of products (particularly of the plastic variety) have been making the headlines for all the wrong reasons. A growing number of citizens, supported by various media, are increasingly questioning the need for many […]
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What Are We Doing About Our Ocean Plastic Problem? The great plastic debate is never far from my mind (perhaps for many), with the UN’s World Oceans Day, seeing the Clean Waves Project “Advertising” display by Old Street Roundabout in London and speaking with the documentary makers of Uma Gota when on holiday in Brazil. It
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This is 2nd in a 5 part series looking at everyday activities, organisations and campaigns that support contributing to sustainable change (in Reading UK and beyond) A common theme in terms of sustainability is getting more hands on, taking time to learn, try and make for yourself (long before the likes of the Great British Sewing
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A GREAT PRACTICAL OPPORTUNITY TO CoNNECT, LEARN AND SHARE ON CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION AND SOLUTIONS! The Climathon movement’s 24-hour climate change hackathon is organised simultaneously in major cities around the world. Climathon 2017 is set to be the biggest hackathon of its kind in world history, taking place in 75+ cities around the world on
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Translating the Circular Economy Principles to Practical Guidance for Organisations For those of you interested in implementing the Circular Economy and wondering where to start, whether in the first stages of starting up, a concept idea or in a larger and more developed business, the BSI has recently published: BS 8001:2017 Framework for implementing the
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What are the wasteful products that really make you angry? If you’ve not already seen, the People’s Design Lab is back, brought to you by Zero Waste Europe, launching the Redesign Europe Challenge (how apt). It’s even easier now to vote for the products that need to be redesigned or phased out the market (as actually
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For 5 weeks over summer 2016 I was lucky enough to be one of the startup business coaches on the Climate KIC Journey Programme. With a group of 36 students from universities across Europe, we spent 2 weeks based in Den Haag visiting and being inspired by a range of urban and academic sustainability initiatives,
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Recently I was lucky enough to join and take part in the Glasgow School of Art and Glasgow University, Product Design Engineering (PDE) 25 year anniversary celebrations (as well as marking 10 years since I myself graduated). It was great to visit the new studios, see the latest degree show, catch-up with the PDE course leaders
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Here’s a second post from last year summarising some of the activities and challenges worked on during the London end of the OSCEdays. I’ll be following up on some of these to see “Where are they now?” and also beginning to develop ideas and organisers for this years days. Interested check out OSCEdays 2016 or email me
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As you may have noticed, the OSCEdays is back! Need a reminder of the types of things to expect this year? Here’s an overview originally posted on the The KTN Blog. Will be sharing some London-based activities soon as well as an update on some of the projects, places we’ve been and events and activities where we’ve
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