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Innovation

We develop practical innovations to change our world

Climate change, poverty, resource scarcity and waste are among the greatest challenges the world faces. We need to organise our global economy in completely new ways if we are to hit global sustainable development targets. Radical thinking and creative approaches will be essential.

 

We help organisations innovate the products, services and business models we need for a sustainable future. We create future scenarios to inspire them with the ideas which will deliver success in those worlds. We bring together players from different parts of a system to find solutions to shared problems. And we use metrics to drive rapid progress in the sustainability of products.

Tea 2030
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Clean Horizons – Using future scenarios for...
Over the last three decades Ecover has successfully challenged the way that people...
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Which? - Consumers in 2030
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$163 billion has been invested globally in “Green Innovation” since 2007.

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Billions of connections... but to what end?
In July 2012 a 15 year old boy called Robert Buchan-Terry, frustrated by the lack of activity in his local area, organised a Raspberry Jam in...
Design competition: Using culture to inspire sustainable behaviour...
Feeling creative? Enthusiastic about designing for a better future? Want to use culture and behaviour as your inspiration? In this blog, the first...
The island of misfit objects
Remember when the news came out that someone had 3D printed a gun (well at least the bit of the gun that mattered) and there was much hand wringing...

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Gravity powered light saves on kerosene costs
GravityLight provides remote communities with 30 minutes of clean illumination from a three second pull on a weighted bag. Developed by two...
Artists bring beauty to emergency housing
The Konbit Shelter: a pretty quick fix for shelter when natural disasters strike. When natural disasters strike, aid agencies rush in with tents...
Clean water fund nudges hotels and spas
Whole World Water’s low-carbon, filtered alternative to bottles could raise $1 billion to cut thirst in Sub-Saharan Africa. Water, as the...

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How we're using #futures to create #innovations in 6 cities, w/ @NextCityOrg @informalcity http://t.co/Vn6F0sPJa0 #informalcity
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