Lovely example of biomimicry from Ecovative via Grist:
Usually you do not want fungi in the walls of your home. But Ecovative is building a home in which having fungi in the walls is the entire point. The “Mushroom Tiny House” will use mycelium (the mass of threadlike “roots” that mushrooms use to take in nutrition) for insulation.
According to Inhabitat, this stuff is basically asbestos except that it’s not bad for the planet, won’t give you cancer, and is related to something you might put on a pizza…
Listening to a passionate sustainability campaigner recently, I suddenly found myself back in class – more than a decade in the past. I was in my NLP Practitioner Training and we were talking about language. Whatever your background, if you’re into coaching you understand just how much the language we use limits our experience and…
In 2001, Jim Collins published his research into the factors that turned good businesses into great businesses, performing well above their industry average over long periods of time. The title of the book is “Good to Great. Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t”.
While efficiency is a critical element of sustainable business, it’s not the be-all and end all. Corporate Social Responsibility can be useful if it’s used as a source of strategy (not treated as a costly obligation). The real end game of sustainability is a big one – to re-invent how we make and deliver our products…
Let’s talk about the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of profitable sustainability… Humans need more than why information for behaviour change. If a good reason why was enough to create behaviour change then we wouldn’t have problems with smoking, obesity or any number of other ‘challenges’. To make effective change, most of us need more than “reasons why” – we also need…
Back in the 19th century the human race got hooked into chemical and mechanical engineering. We developed steam power and learned to make soap in quantity, then later fell in love with petrochemicals. While these have been useful tools to a point, their side effects are showing up as increasingly damaging. Biomimcry is showing up…
“It is through conversations that we interact with each other, coordinate actions and get things done. Conversations underpin and accompany everything we do, and what we do and do not accomplish.” Alan Sieler, ‘Coaching to the Human Soul. Volume 1’ p.249 Getting things done in the world – and particularly in business – happens through conversation. …
