Pi Slice is the first online Micro Finance platform in the MENA region, enabling motivated individuals and companies to build a sustainable future for micro-entrepreneurs, as well as a favourable ecosystem for development at the macro level. EMG spoke with Genny Ghanimeh, Founder and CEO. What inspired you to start a micro lending platform? It…
EMG article featured in magazine of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. EMG interview with Ms. Ida Auken, the Danish Minister of Environment on green innovations, closed loop, sustainable product designs, urban revitalization & entrepreneurial enthusiasm: “CSR is driven by business and hereby becomes a part of companies’ DNA and new business model.” In 1971…
“We live in a businessminded world, and companies have to make profit. But at the same time, business also needs a soul, which is expressed through their values and ideals. Without a soul, a company cannot truly thrive.” EMG spoke with Giuseppe van der Helm about his work with Eurosif and the VBDO, and his…
Although sustainable food production is in the category of large scale, complex and difficult global problems sometimes described as ‘wicked’, companies should see it as a source of opportunities and leverage it to drive innovation, argues Dr Richard Manlove of EMG CSR Consultancy and the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership. Despite unacceptably high levels of…
Closed loop economy & circular economy: ‘You don’t have to do any of this, survival is not mandatory’. EMG Interview with Walter Stahel Founder Director of the Product Life Institute in Geneva EMG: Please tell us about the Closed loop economy/circular economy model/ principles of Cradle to Cradle. Closed loop economy When we first started…
Sustainable Development in China is here to help senior executives quickly get an overview of the strategic challenges and opportunities regarding CSR. This 23-page summary comes from preliminary research carried out in the course of a larger project on the 12th Five Year Plan for the European Commission by our senior consultant for China projects,…
Cradle to Cradle certification: Recognition for companies that want to be good rather than less bad. In 2002, the German chemist Michael Braungart, together with American architect William McDonough, published a book explaining a ‘circle of life’ approach to product development where quality products are developed in such a way that their materials can be…
Cover story by Daan Elffers, EMG featured in this month’s Future Constructor & Architect magazine (FC&A Magazine), to view the article online here http://goo.gl/zCmUY Sustainability, of course, is nothing new to the building industry. It’s long been known that the buildings in which we live and work every day account for around 40% of the…
Central to the new economic approach intended to assure China’s prosperity in future is the transition, already under way, from China as a producer of low-cost items to a new China determined to raise its technological level and become a manufacturer and supplier of high-tech goods to the world, or if not to the world,…
EMG article featured in PSS Magazine – the official magazine of the Public Sector Sustainability Association. Modern ‘energy from waste’ plants are able to reduce the volume of the original waste by up to 95-96%, depending upon its composition and the extent to which recyclable materials, such as metals, can be recovered from the ash….
Those of you who have read the book Cradle to Cradle will be familiar with its message: that true sustainability has to be designed into the products and processes we use and depend on from day to day – anything less will simply mean that the plunder of resources and the despoiling of our planet…
Interview with Nigel Stansfield, Chief Innovations Officer, Interface. Can you tell us about the very beginning of your journey? Our journey started back in 1994, when our founder Ray Anderson had what he has often called an epiphany. Our key global customers had asked him what Interface’s response to sustainability concerns and issues was. Ray…
