Brands

The role of brands is changing.  People expect ever more of brands, championing the ones they love, and tweeting at full volume about the ones that disappoint. They want brands to act responsibly on their behalf – but are often sceptical, if not ...

Forum - Blog - Sarah Tulej - 22/05/2013 - 9:09am - 0 comments

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Green Futures - Article - Anonymous - 07/05/2013 - 9:15am - 0 comments

In my last post,  I talked about how many firms are using quantified business cases that credibly predict positive financial returns to drive broader, gutsier and often customer-facing sustainability decisions. Such firms recognise that long-term ...

Forum - Blog - Aaron Hay - 15/05/2013 - 6:19pm - 4 comments

If you can answer yes to any of the questions below, we need you! Do you think brands could help create a sustainable future? Can brands drive changes in consumer behaviour? Do you have examples of how ...

Forum - Blog - Sally Uren - 27/04/2013 - 11:19pm - 1 comment

200 years ago, tea cost £100 per pound (about half a kilo). It was so expensive that only the upper class could drink it and they kept it under lock and key, so the likes of you and me couldn’t get their grubby mits on it. Not only that but it helped ...

Forum - Blog - Ann-Marie Brouder - 23/04/2013 - 6:09pm - 0 comments

Forum for the Future devised a new ‘streamlined lifecycle assessment tool’, the Environmental Impact Analyser (EIA), to help AkzoNobel identify the environmental and ...

Case studies - Madeleine Lewis - 17/04/2013 - 3:35pm - 0 comments

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Green Futures - Article - Anonymous - 16/04/2013 - 10:20am - 0 comments

As you take a swig from that plastic bottle, consider this: in the UK we use two million plastic bottles every day. That’s 600,000 tonnes of plastic every year. Pic courtesy of Marc E Marc via Flickr (CC) And although we have ...

Forum - Blog - Peter Madden - 18/03/2013 - 10:05am - 3 comments

My colleagues Sally, Madeleine and I were musing this morning about how it’s nearly a year since Dairy 2020 has been launched. As some of you may remember, Dairy 2020 was an industry-wide sustainability collaboration facilitated by Forum for the ...

Forum - Blog - Ivana Gazibara - 11/03/2013 - 3:15pm - 0 comments

The future of 3D printing is being hotly debated at the moment. The Economist and Wired have run major features on it, we've covered it regularly in Green Futures (see below) and it's all over the twittersphere - new ...

Forum - Blog - James Goodman - 27/03/2013 - 12:12pm - 0 comments

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Green Futures - Article - Anonymous - 27/02/2013 - 10:15am - 0 comments

The High Street has been suffering in the consumer downturn. Customers have been watching their pennies amid concerns about high inflation and job security... For a link to this article, click here.   ...

Forum - Blog - Geraldine Gilbert - 20/03/2013 - 5:16pm - 0 comments

Global sales of mobile phones fell in 2012 compared with the previous year, according to a report from research company Gartner. It said 1.75 billion handsets had been bought, marking a 1.7% decline. Analysts at the firm suggested "tough economic ...

Forum - Blog - Geraldine Gilbert - 20/03/2013 - 5:20pm - 0 comments

What might consumers need from Which? - the UK's consumer champion - in 2030? Just launched: 8th February 2013, download the report on the left-hand side of this page ...

Forum - Project - Ulrike Stein - 27/03/2013 - 6:45pm - 2 comments

A wide range of companies, including Apple, General Electric and Brooks Brothers, are experimenting with making more products in the United States. The moves make good public relations, but they also take advantage of cheaper energy ...

Forum - Blog - Geraldine Gilbert - 20/03/2013 - 3:50pm - 0 comments

Last week Nokia announced it was going to release a '3D printing developement kit', making the 3D printing templates of the shells of their Lumia 820 phones openly available. This allows ...

Forum - Blog - Louise Armstrong - 20/03/2013 - 3:56pm - 0 comments

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Green Futures - Article - Jonathon Porritt - 17/01/2013 - 10:15am - 2 comments

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Green Futures - Article - Sally Uren - 11/01/2013 - 3:28pm - 0 comments