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…
Eastern Business and the Environment (EBATE) is a network group that has been helping businesses to reduce their impact on the environment AND improving their profitability. EBATE is supported by Least Waste (the Regional Waste Management Group for the Eastern Region of Melbourne) and holds seminars on issues such as minimising waste, efficient energy use and water…
“We don’t see how things are, we see them according to how we are”. ― Anaïs Nin Modern neurobiology is providing evidence of what philosophers have been saying for a long time. What we observe is controlled and filtered by our beliefs and values, particularly in complex situations. How we see and respond to situations is…
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…
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…
When the tide comes in across the sandflats, sometimes it doesn’t look like there’s anything much happening at all. There’s a trickle here, a trickle there – it almost looks like nothing is changing. Then some of the trickles start to join up and you can see that something is starting to happen. This is…
To me, the Regenerative Business revolution began back in the 1990s. Where I see examples, I post them into the LinkedIn Regenerative Business discussion group. To me, the more we observe and applaud the emerging shift to truly win/win/win sustainable business models, the more we can accelerate their spread. Whether it’s a suburban accountant installing…
