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The latest thinking to help sustainable innovators

How Purpose Drives Sustainable Innovation in Leading Companies

Read how leading companies like Unilever, M&S and Interface are driving sustainable innovation from their purpose.

Paris Agreement supports sustainable innovation

Resource efficiency, supply chain efficiency, the circular economy, the sharing economy, forests and renewable energy will all benefit from the Paris Agreement.

How to Collaborate for Sustainable Innovation

Read the views of experts from organisations including BP, Balfour Beatty, Interface, Virgin and the BBC.

Invitation to Sustainable Innovation Breakfast in January

Join us for a Sustainable Innovation Breakfast on Tuesday 19 January to discuss “Purpose”

Circular economy creates office furniture savings

You can now buy as-new remade office furniture for less than half the new recommended retail price, thanks to the circular economy.

Building disruptive new businesses

This video offers practical lessons on how to create a disruptive business, with details on building a circular/remanufacturing business.

3 big differences between sustainable innovation and regular innovation

Sustainable innovation differs substantially from regular innovation. Read what a group of leading innovation and sustainability experts had to say on the subject.

Profitable Sustainability: Oxymoron or New Opportunity?

Many commentators believe that sustainability harms profitability; we have found the opposite to be true – good sustainability programs add significantly to profits.

Building an Economy that Works

The Next Manufacturing Revolution and the New Industrial Model are cited as evidence for and quantification of the benefits of ‘An Economy that Works’.

New Report on Remanufacturing

The UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Manufacturing and Sustainable Resource Groups released a report presenting the economic, social and environmental potential of remanufacturing.

Transforming sustainability from cost centre to profit centre

Sustainability teams in leading global companies are re-inventing themselves to move from squeezed cost centres to vital profit centres.

Latest developments and untapped opportunities in resource efficiency

Recent developments and emerging themes in the field of non-labour resource efficiency.

How Nestlé reduced its energy use by 36% per tonne of product

This video explains the £1.9B p.a. energy saving opportunity available to UK manufacturers and how Nestlé has made substantial energy efficiency improvements.

Emerging new industrial model

How Unilever, Interface, Nestle, Patagonia and others have improved both their profitability and sustainability in 3 steps.

Revenue growth from resource efficiency

Learn how Kyocera has successfully used non-labour resource efficiency to drive sales and how your company can too.

UK Food and Beverage Sector Missing £920M p.a. in Resource Efficiency

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This report identifies cost savings that the UK Food and Beverage sector is now missing and presents a 2023 Vision for resource efficiency for the sector.

New Industrial Model Identified

A more sustainable model for industry has been identified worth €100bn in additional profits for Europe. It involves just three steps.

Radical Strategy: Disrupt before you are disrupted

The traditional response to earnings downturns is to hunker down and defend the status quo. But if the downturn is caused by a structural disruption this is the wrong response.

5 Key Sustainability Themes for 2014

The themes emerging that the Lavery/Pennell team expect to shape sustainability in 2014

Future Cities Report by Shell

‘New Lenses on Future Cities’ looks at how cities can evolve to cope with an additional 2.7 billion people by 2050

The Drivers and Benefits of Resource Efficiency

The benefits to be gained from taking a proactive approach to sustainability

Remanufacturing – A low risk source of additional profits

The pros and cons of remanufacturing and how to succeed, with insights from Caterpillar Reman

Next Manufacturing Revolution report launch

See what Toyota, Caterpillar, Nestle, Coca Cola Enterprises and Professor Steve Evans say about the Next Manufacturing Revolution and the resource efficiency opportunities that it offers.

Profitable sustainability explained

The value that sustainability can create and how to use it to drive profits

Lavery Pennell and NMR in Guardian supplement

Guardian article discusses the Next Manufacturing Revolution and the opportunities that it represents

The Next Manufacturing Revolution

Report released showing the untapped opportunities for UK manufacturing from non-labour resource efficiency and the barriers to uptake

“if you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got”

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