How an innovative start-up is leveraging the original ingredient in Coca-Cola to kick start sustainable development in Nigeria Nigeria has been drowning in oil for decades. Since the mid-1950’s the country has suffered from a ‘resource curse’ economy, where the main source of economic development, oil, fuels concentration of wealth in the hands of a few elite and corrupt political…
Products with Purpose: Reimagining Commerce with the Living Product Challenge
I have spent the past six and half years of my career at the International Living Future Institute working on sustainable manufacturing initiatives. This experience has opened my eyes to the power of commerce, both positive and negative. In fact, working on product sustainability has begun to fundamentally change my relationship to the products around me. Right now, sitting here…