Wanting to solve hunger and food waste at the same time is an admirable goal, and it’s the reason why Iseult Ward launched an app called FoodCloud – and is vying for the winning spot at the £1m VOOM competition finale from Virgin Media Business.
Inspiration can be found in a wide variety of places – indeed, the shower is often said to be one of them. But for entrepreneur Toby McCartney, he found the motivation he needed to develop a problem-solving business when attending his young daughter’s school assembly.
Over the past three years, social enterprise Desolenator has been on a quest to produce a solution to the world’s drinking water crisis, which has resulted in the development of a solar-powered device that has the ability to purify water of contamination.
Boards that are willing to take a proactive and bold response can crystallise that rarest outcome of a crisis: an opportunity.
By Simon Brooke
Ever since it entered the corporate lexicon a few years ago, “sustainability,” is something that almost every large company has aspired to. But shortly after this appearance another phrase developed along side it.
Ricoh’s head of corporate responsibility tells us how the IT company turned an annual environmental day into a month, what impact it’s had, and why businesses of all sizes across any sector can make sustainability a priority.
