Resource Event
A keynote panel led by Ida Auken (Advisory Board Member of EMG and former Minister for the Environment, Danish Parliament) engaged the RESOURCE Event audience in a discussion relating to ingenuity around the world.
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EMG and Anglia Ruskin University Showcase Circular Economy Examples
This month, EMG founder and CEO Drs Daan Elffers gave a lecture on sustainability and the circular economy at the Lord Ashcroft International Business School at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. The lecture formed part of the module on Sustainable Management Futures and was attended by 300+ students from around the world as part of…
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SDG 12&14 and Method Inc
“We have created a product that people said would be impossible. People would say there’s no way you can take plastic out of the middle of the ocean and make useable, recyclable packaging from it. Well, we’ve done just that.” – co-founder, Adam Lowry, Method Inc home products that “clean like heck and smell like…
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National CSR Concept
National CSR Concept for Kazakhstan. Central Asia: This October EMG won the international tender for the review and analysis of Kazakhstan’s National Corporate Social Responsibility Concept, initiated by the Eurasia Foundation of Central Asia in partnership with the Dutch embassy in Astana. Kazakhstan is the ninth largest country in the world Kazakhstan has the 11th…
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EMG at Key CSR Event at British Parliament
At the British parliament on Tuesday 5th November, the Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment (IEMA) launched its ‘Skills for a Sustainable Economy’ initiative to mainstream environmental skills across the economy with the support of like-minded leading organisations As one of UK’s ‘200 leading names from business and politics’, EMG was invited to attend the…
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EMG Part of Training Team Cradle to Cradle Certified Assessors
On 15, 16 and 17 October, the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute trained organizations from Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Turkey, Brazil, the Netherlands and the UK to become the latest accredited assessment bodies authorized to analyze and assess products on Cradle to Cradle Certified quality. Held at the institute’s European training centre in Venlo, the Netherlands, accrediting these…
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EMG CEO chairs CSR Qatar
CSR Qatar 2013, the prominent sustainability summit on 24 and 25 November in Doha, Qatar, is to be chaired by the founder of the Anglo-Dutch sustainability firm EMG. Just days after a major international study commissioned by the UN Global Compact revealed that already one in three CEOs are actively seeking to employ circular economy…
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Materials Management
What makes Nokia interesting when it comes to sustainability is that this company has highly efficient manufacturing processes, and has supported its suppliers in this field in long-term agreements. Its supply chain is interlinked with all aspects of the company and its consumers, and it is this management of the supply chain which is considered…
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Waste = Food
We were inspired by an article we came across about those programs you see in almost every hotel nowadays, the “don’t change your linen every day” programs, to think about how negative a lot of the green messages are out there. “Reduce”, “Decrease” and “Stop” are leading verbs that are used when talking about environmental…
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Planned Obsolescence vs Circular Economy
There are more and more companies out there that are investing millions in R&D and production process renovation to deliver on the “closing the loop” with Technical or Biological cycle promise. The challenge is that the average end user doesn’t know about it, and doesn’t even understand why he should care. This is where…
