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Marzipan Management and Styrofoam Leadership

Two weeks after our April 10th event on ‘Building a Culture of Sustainability’, I find myself continuing to ponder some of the interesting dilemmas that came up in conversation.  We had a great crowd that was itching to engage (perhaps not surprising given that the topic was engagement) and wonderful speakers.  We had some really interesting questions which challenged our panel to consider everything from how to motivate and inspire the middle management layer in large global corporates to whether a company has ever successfully implemented a sustainability strategy without the support of senior leadership….

It wasn’t a new question, […]

By |April 24th, 2013|Past Events|0 Comments
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Fresh fish and vegetables in the city?…GrowUp!

Urban farming is not a new concept, the commercial urban farms and the small scale community projects we saw at our urban food walk last summer show that this type of food production is taking off. This can be attributed to many reasons; although two possible drivers behind the shift towards urban farming are climate change and an increasing awareness of the lack of transparency in the traditional food system. Food produced in cities can be delivered fresh on the day it is harvested with low transportation, storage and packaging costs and thus a low carbon footprint. Furthermore, because […]

By |March 28th, 2013|Environment|0 Comments
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Sustainability Careers

Did you miss our March event on careers in sustainability? Here are a few top tips from our panel:

  • Spend 10% of your day networking. Those connections are key to a successful career
  • It’s increasingly hard to differentiate yourself academically – fitting in with the culture of the business is the key variable.
  • To be a change maker you must know when to push and when to pull back – work with the system to make a difference.

One last tip from Shannon Houde, Walk of Life Consulting, to market yourself effectively – take the time to map your top five skills against […]

By |March 28th, 2013|Past Events|0 Comments
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Overcoming Barriers to Sustainable Investing – Recap

Thanks to everyone who joined the last event – it was a packed house with great speakers, challenging questions, and frank discussion, which continued on afterwards during drinks at the lovely Bedales Wine Bar.

We covered a lot of ground. Although we are seeing signs of progress with more and more investors taking ESG factors into consideration, it’s clear that there remain many barriers and challenges to sustainable investing.

- Asset owners tend to have a longer-term time horizon and have been the primary drivers of sustainable investing; however smaller pension funds have limited negotiating power and end up being […]

By |January 24th, 2013|Finance & Investment, Marketing & Communication, Past Events|0 Comments
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Firms of The Future – A Business Inspired By Nature

Exclusive blog piece by Giles Hutchins:

Due to a ‘perfect storm’ of economic, social and environmental factors, our business landscape is becoming more and more volatile.

The pace of change, too, is increasing. To succeed in business we must be agile, creative, alert, spontaneous and responsive – often operating in completely new ways. Today’s rapidly changing business environment calls for businesses that thrive in rapidly changing environments: businesses more akin to living systems. These ‘Firms of the Future’ can learn and adapt; they aren’t structured and silo’ed, which stifles learning and agility. These firms are also bottom-up, decentralised, interdependent, multifunctional, emergent, […]

By |November 7th, 2012|Marketing & Communication, Upcoming Events|0 Comments
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October’s ‘Impact at Workshop’: Relevance, Communication & Impact

Thank you to all of the Net Impacters who participated in October’s Impact at Workshop. We couldn’t have managed without the insights from all of our attendees who tackled dynamic and challenging questions with creativity and inspiration. In the end, we may have come up with more questions than solutions!

Here are a few of the themes which emerged from the evening:

1) The importance (and difficulty) of integrating sustainability policy into business strategy. To maximise on the impact of a sustainability plan, partnerships, community engagement and environmental policy need to be RELEVANT to your business. From a consultancy or NGO perspective this means developing a thorough understanding […]

By |October 23rd, 2012|Marketing & Communication, Past Events, Strategy|0 Comments
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Sustainable Impact in the Workplace

Hello fellow Net Impacters.  In preparation for our workshop on October 10th, we have put together some questions which should get the creative juices flowing and give you a better understanding of what to expect from our event!  We are moving away from the talking head format in the hopes of generating some really productive conversation around how to make a sustainable impact in your business and career.  The night will be divided up into a three part discussion with a brief introduction for each topic provided by sustainability practitioners.  The interrelated topics we are covering are:

1) Identifying […]

By |October 3rd, 2012|Events, General, Marketing & Communication, Upcoming Events|0 Comments
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