What do Uber, eBay and smartphones have to do with sustainability?

August 5, 2015

Smart new business models are delivering radical forms of sustainability – without any mention of the “S” word. eBay, Gumtree and others are enabling product reuse and recycling across the globe and in all sorts of market places.  Whether it’s a 10 year old girl updating her toy collection, a home handman acquiring tiling tools,…

7 design principles for Regenerative Business

March 16, 2012

I got seriously interested in sustainability years ago, during post-graduate studies.  I was fortunate to be introduced  through  great books like “Natural Capitalism”, “Cradle to Cradle” and “Biomimicry”. Along with  a mass of detail and lots of “reasons why” sustainability was important,  I found a set of  straightforward strategies that challenge out-of-date 20th century assumptions about the…