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By Leonora Oppenheim IN Work & Connect Dec 2 2010
Meet adventurous environmentalists Eric and Sarah McNair-Landry, the brother and sister team whose expertise guide the most high profile Polar expeditions of our times. + READ MORE
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By Leonora Oppenheim IN Work & Connect Nov 18 2010
As co-founder of ethical product brand Holstee David Radparvar combines dressing hipsters with micro-lending in the developing world, helping people wear their passion. + READ MORE
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By Leonora Oppenheim IN Work & Connect Nov 4 2010
What's Mine Is Yours is an exciting new book about the power of Collaborative Consumption; how we're doing it for ourselves through the power of technology and community. Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers tell us how they came to be involved in the new sharing movement. + READ MORE
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By Leonora Oppenheim IN Work & Connect Sep 2 2010
In a career that has moved from ethical clothing to electric bikes Dru Lawson has made his life's work one stylish sustainable journey. + READ MORE
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By Leonora Oppenheim IN Work & Connect Aug 26 2010
Meet Katherine Ponte the founder of Ecostasy, the online design store with a mission to support social and environmental development through beautiful artisanal design. + READ MORE
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By Leonora Oppenheim IN Fashion & Beauty Aug 12 2010
Meet Amisha Ghadiali the passionate creative activist who brings ethical fashion and politics together to engage young people in choosing a more positive future. + READ MORE
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By Leonora Oppenheim IN Work & Connect Jun 17 2010
Laura Rudoe believes that beauty isn't only skin deep, but that it involves ethical business, recycled packaging and local production too. Rudoe's evolve beauty products help keep both our bodies and the planet looking gorgeous without hurting our wallets. + READ MORE
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By Leonora Oppenheim IN Work & Connect Mar 31 2010
How do we bring sustainable solutions into the mainstream? Melissa Sterry believes designers and engineers hold the key to innovation. She has set up the New Frontiers initiative to promote innovation through design education in the UK. + READ MORE
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By Leonora Oppenheim IN Travel & Outdoors Feb 17 2010
Meet Change Maker Andrew Harding, founder of responsible travel company Nature + Kind. + READ MORE
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By Leonora Oppenheim IN Work & Connect Feb 10 2010
We were delighted to catch up with green guru John Grant this week just as his new book Co-opportunity is published. Having won awards for his previous publication, The Green Marketing Manifesto, he is now asking us to "join up for a sustainable, resilient, prosperous world". + READ MORE
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By Leonora Oppenheim IN Work & Connect Jan 6 2010
Dan Burgess is the founder of Naked Planet, an innovative communications agency in London that works with brands to help them create more sustainable initiatives within their business. + READ MORE
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By Leonora Oppenheim IN Work & Connect Nov 5 2009
Meet Ana Joanes the director and producer of Fresh, one of the most inspiring movies recently made about our food system and what we eat. + READ MORE
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By Leonora Oppenheim IN Work & Connect Oct 28 2009
Tamara Giltsoff is a highly respected sustainability strategist who has worked for brilliantly innovative companies such as live|work in London and OzoLabs in New York. + READ MORE
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By Leonora Oppenheim IN Work & Connect Sep 16 2009
Biodegradable shoes, edible shoe cream, indigenous rights, these are just a few elements of Sven Segal?s Po-Zu brand that make it stand out from other footwear companies. + READ MORE
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By Leonora Oppenheim IN Work & Connect Jun 18 2009
Anyone working in the field of sustainability in London over the past few years will have heard the name of green business consultant Tyler Moorehead mentioned on more than one or two occasions. Her passion, energy and fresh ideas for connecting businesses and organizations with their environmental roots mean that she's in high demand. After 20 years of working in media and digital business on a wide variety of business development projects she has now set up GreenUnlimited, a consultancy which aims to help environmental and ethical businesses achieve their full potential. + READ MORE
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By Leonora Oppenheim IN Work & Connect Jun 11 2009
Christopher Raeburn's debut at London Fashion Week's Estethica show this February drew audible gasps of admiration from more than one or two trained fashion eyes. + READ MORE
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By Leonora Oppenheim IN Work & Connect May 28 2009
Hub Culture founder Stan Stalnaker is running circles around traditional business. While many companies are frantically trying to work out how to fit the digital communications revolution into their traditional business structure, Stan is moving fluidly from the digital space to the physical space and back again. + READ MORE
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By Leonora Oppenheim IN Work & Connect Mar 26 2009
Over ten years ago Michael Pawlyn joined the celebrated British architecture firm Grimshaw specifically to work on the now eco-iconic Eden Project in Cornwall. The experience of developing such an innovative structure inspired by nature made a considerable impact on the architect. In 2007, Pawlyn left Grimshaw to focus on using Biomimicry—design that imitates life—in sustainable architecture. + READ MORE
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By Leonora Oppenheim IN Work & Connect Feb 19 2009
As a barrister in London's law courts, Polly Higgins is used to making a good argument and bringing justice to bear. But when it comes to the environment, the courts just aren't a big enough loudspeaker for Higgins, so she's taking her own brand of planetary justice to the masses. + READ MORE
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By Leonora Oppenheim IN Travel & Outdoors Jan 27 2009
Find eco-nightlife at a sustainable dance club or hit the harbor for a boat tour in the second largest city in the Netherlands. Rotterdam, with the largest port in Europe and industrious inhabitants can be described as Amsterdam's more competitive and slightly tougher sibling, The second largest city in the Netherlands, it took a beating during World War II, and there is only a small section of the picturesque old town left. + READ MORE
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By Leonora Oppenheim IN Work & Connect Jan 22 2009
Celebrated for its funky organic-cotton t-shirt graphics and activist messages, German ethical fashion label armedangels, which was founded by Martin Höfeler and Anton Jurina in 2007, is more than just two people who launched an eco-friendly company. + READ MORE
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By Leonora Oppenheim IN Work & Connect Jan 8 2009
When Andy Middleton started a tiny windsurfing school in the 1980s, all he wanted was to spend his time on the beach. But his enthusiasm just couldn't be contained. Today, Middleton's company, Wales-based TYF, is a full-blown, international adventure and education business that works with everyone from school children to CEOs. Meanwhile, Middleton himself has gone from beach bum to eco-motivational speaker. + READ MORE
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By Leonora Oppenheim IN Work & Connect Nov 13 2008
Made with beauty, people, and the earth in mind, UK designer Tamasyn Gambell's scarves are eco-luxury worth investing in. In this interview, she explains how she set out to embrace slow fashion that values skill and craft in design and production. + READ MORE
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By Leonora Oppenheim IN Work & Connect Oct 22 2008
Like many an environmentalist, Marcus Hill was irritated with packaging waste. The needless waste...the landfill contribution...urghhhh! But instead of getting frustrated, Hill fought back by founding London Bio-Packaging with two partners. + READ MORE
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By Leonora Oppenheim IN Travel & Outdoors Oct 1 2008
Amsterdam is just as well known for picturesque canals and a world famous flower market as it is for a risqué red light district and hazy coffee shops serving legalized marijuana. However, it's not all sex, drugs, and cut flowers in the Venice of the North. + READ MORE
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By Leonora Oppenheim IN Work & Connect Sep 11 2008
Everyone has the power to make positive change; Marcus Morrell proves it. Based in London, Morrell is a double-threat when it comes to change-making actions. In 2003, he created Big Picture TV as a platform to air sustainability issues. Today, the site streams nearly 400 video interviews with green experts, thinkers, and activists. More recently, Morrell signed on as a foresight analyst at Arup, where he lends his own expertise to one of the largest structural engineering firms in the world. + READ MORE
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