Textile Trends Look to a More Sustainable Future
New approaches to design are highlighted in a seminar previewing the 2021 Heimtextil trade fair…
Source: www.keepingyouinformed.info
New approaches to design are highlighted in a seminar previewing the 2021 Heimtextil trade fair…
Source: www.keepingyouinformed.info
Our brand new ‘Wildlife Conservation and Sustainability Society’ has produced the first issue of their half-termly newsletter, available to download below. The team consider the dangers of microplastics on marine life, and the impact of invasive species, while also inviting us to consider our own contribution to marine issues through the use of disposable face masks. This issue casts the spotlight on pangolins, the most trafficked non-human mammal on earth.
Industry 4.0 is no longer a buzz word in the industry. It is a transformative digitalization of how companies manufacture their products.
Environmental sustainability has become a major global agenda; and as such, it requires practical and urgent action. Rapid urbanisation, industrial growth, and the ever-increasing human population have intensified the use of natural resources. At the same time, these factors have also increased the need to protect the natural environment. A United Nations report, “The Climate Crisis – A Race We Can Win”, affirms that no part of the earth is untouched by the effect of human activities or pollution. Natural resources are being depleted at an alarming rate and are also being contaminated with toxic chemicals, potentially leaving a future world in which the young generations would live in to be quite endangered. It is little wonder that young people are becoming very vocal about environmental sustainability.
Business giants, financial investors, non-profit organisations and national Governments have vowed to eradicate plastic waste and pollution, as part of a new Global Commitment spearheaded by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
Rome’s mayor said today that she’ll bring in a new ban on single-use plastics in the city, in a move that will be welcomed by environmental campaigners. But her plastic concerns are more about local mafiosi than pollution.
What is the relationship between employee ownership and sustainable business practices? Our research, conducted with support from Partners for a New Economy, suggests the answer to this question is far from simple.