Who says the environment is a business cost?

January 3, 2025

“Expensive” is relative. Estimates of the trillion-dollar global ROIs of regenerative business strategies tell a different story.

Upcycling commercial buildings – Circular Economy at a whole new level

December 15, 2022

While researching how AMP saved money and GHG upcycling a Sydney skyscraper, I found a useful Google paper on building deconstruction and reuse.

Circular design stories, sources and resources

June 19, 2020

An ongoing collection of stories, sources and resources for developing businesses growth strategies.

World-changers going down to the sea in boats

May 27, 2020

Clean up the rubbish Back in the 1986/87, solo Australian yachtsman Ian Tiernan circumnavigated the worlds oceans, coming 6th in the BOC Challenge. What he saw on his ocean journey appalled him.

Smarter design is thinking in circles

April 29, 2020

Beyond the 1-way extract/emit/exploit industrial design of the 20th century, Circular Economy and Cradle to Cradle Product Innovation offer savings and profit.

Ocean plastic swimwear

August 9, 2019

Lovely example of Circular Economy products and The Blue Economy principle of “meet local needs from local resources creating local jobs”.

Optimising city-fringe food bowls

March 27, 2019

This recent article “To protect fresh food supplies, here are the key steps to secure city foodbowls” in The Conversations highlights “thinking local” as a key regenerative design opportunity.

Are you interested in $trillions in opportunity?

April 1, 2018

The op sustainability solutions offer business trillion-dollar opportunities IF you know where to look

What happens when we explore beyond politicians fixing climate change?

March 14, 2017

What happens when we starting having having action-oriented, inspiring conversations about implementing the wealth of smart solutions now available from 30+ years of R&D?

What do geckos have to do with carpet tiles?

November 30, 2016

For years I tried to ignore my environmental concerns. I was worried but felt powerless.  Then I was introduced to “Natural Capitalism” and I got interested – almost in spite of myself. The story of a mid-course correction Then I read entrepreneur Ray Anderson’s first book “MidCourse Correction” – and that got me INSPIRED.