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🌍 Severin Halder, a local champion of Munster, beautifully captures the essence of the Kompost Festival: a vision of a harmonious world where humans and the environment coexist. 🌱 This festival showcased remarkable "local champions" who merged science and practice to create a sustainable future. 👉 https://buff.ly/3tsnXaM #HOOP #HOOPProject #hoopconsortium #UrbanBioeconomy #H2020 #bioeconomy #bioeconomia #circulareconomy #economiacircular #EURegionsWeek #EUGreenDeal #InvestEU #KompostFestival #Munster

#sustainabledevelopmentgoals Project Everyone and Richard Curtis have released a powerful message with the help of Al Pacino on Sustainable Development Goals: Road to 2030: IT IS HALF TIME https://lnkd.in/g6jyHYz9

The Earthshot Prize recently ran a star-studded awards ceremony - and I'm not just referring to the celebrities but the entrepreneurs themselves. The show highlights global finalists in four categories - Protect and Restore Nature; Clean our Air; Revive our Oceans; Build a Waste-Free World; and Fix our Climate. I'm incredibly proud of our local BC companies that easily could have been on stage with them. Need some Monday inspiration? Check out the video as a powerful way to remember that we're all connected across borders in our climate work. 🌎 Cascadia Seaweed is on a similar course to Australia's Sea Forest - using cultivated kelp feed to reduce methane in cattle and dairy farming. 👚 Lite-1 uses microorganisms to create dyes that currently come from harmful chemical processes. Seeing Colorifix (UK) featured here will hopefully bring more attention to this sustainable technology. 🚰 Viridis Research Inc, like AquaCycle, is finding new ways to clean water 🚗 Circular Rubber Technologies Inc. recycles tires, reducing emissions from manufacturing by displacing oil-derived virgin rubber. ENSO (UK) is reducing tire pollution downstream on the road itself. 🌊 Open Ocean Robotics's ocean data collection can drive the kind of ocean stewardship highlighted by ABALOBI, Coastal500 and WildAid Spring Roya Aghighi Julie Angus Michael Williamson Erin Bremner-Mitchell Maartje van der Sande Macarena Cataldo-Hernandez, Ph.D. Ahmad Erfan InBC Investment Corp.

Since they were launched and adopted by all UN Member States in 2015, the 17 UN Global Goals have helped companies and countries to focus and develop their actions with a more #ESG purpose. Now that we're #halftime through this sustainability journey, what have each of us done to make the world a better place? Fortunately, I have the privilege of developing and implementing practical actions at EDP that have a real impact on the sustainability of our planet, as well as participating in so many other initiatives like Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, ROTAECO, Universidade Lusófona - Centro Universitário Lisboa, APSAi - Associação Portuguesa de Saúde Ambiental and other many organizations where I have the change to share our doubts and set common goals. But in the end the big question is what are we going to do? Al Pacino and the team at United Nations Sustainable Development Group describe our reality well here. #sustainability #sustainableprocurement

Brilliant insights from SWIM session one https://lnkd.in/dkBnYv7q

Sustainability has never been more important to aviation. Keep an eye on our socials on Monday to find out how IBA is defining the sustainability conversation in #aviationfinance. http://bit.ly/3TI7W9z #ATAG #skiesoftomorrow #sustainableaviation

Some days are truly fascinating, and for me today has been one of those days. I am working today with a manufacturer who is challenging their own thinking, and grappling with the transition from a linear model, to a linear with some recycling, to a circular model. As we move 𝐛𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, into 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐯𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠, we start to question all sorts of things... And, as younger generations are increasingly entering the market, they bring a fresh perspective and an openness to change that redefines entire markets. #Circularity and the #SharingEconomy is now becoming an increasingly important consideration for so many businesses, in their short to mid term planning cycles. And it is increasingly commercially viable, with widening appeal and focus on 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩. Of course in some categories this has long been the norm - ski rental, tool hire, bike hire for example. But, as anyone who has experience in this space will know, its often quite / very complex to create workable circular solutions that aren't just circular, but also sustainable / low carbon and commercially sound. I'm certainly no expert in this space so thought I'd better do some research. This research led me to this brilliant, and I am sure widely viewed by those in the know, TED talk by Ellen MacArthur. Definitely worth 16 minutes of your time if you haven't seen it before. Comparing the finite resources Ellen had on her round the world voyage, with the finite resources available to us today, brings a moment of clarity. Its not about reducing consumption, its about creating a 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐧𝐞𝐰, 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐜𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲. Feels like we are on the verge of some very exciting changes, is your business ready? PS - If anyone has any great reports or research on the subject they would be willing to share, please pop a link in the comments or DM me.. I'm always keen to learn more... _________________________________________________________________________________ I help organisations create, define and deliver strategic approaches to the changing market they operate within. To find out more, please visit www.thinkseven.co.uk or pop me a DM.

#circulareconomy is the need of the hour. Most of us, as consumers or producers, are not concerned about the resources that are finite and shall soon extinguish. This myopic approach of owning more and more carries the horrific doom of our very own survival on this planet. Responsible Consumption and Production (SDG-12) needs to be in action in its true sense.

For those of you working on sustainability in your organizations (which I assume is all of us) you might be interested in this Al Pacino video