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Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision

...business, so this can mean anything from originally creating ideas, writing ideas for briefs or overseeing the rest of the team as they edit, etc., to make sure that… number one that obviously the quality is really, really high but also that the ideas are something new and something fresh in the world that we work in. How I got started Originally I went to Brighton...
Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...business practices, workplace organisation or external relations...Technological innovation: a resource-based view: 2 Innovation: adding value - The OECD/EC definition focuses on what is innovated – product, process, marketing or organisation – rather than how or why people or organisations choose to use an innovation, or how an innovation might be produced....
Extinctions at World Heritage Sites aren't just environmental disasters
Nature & Environment

Extinctions at World Heritage Sites aren't just environmental disasters

...business with annual profits of almost US$ 2 billion — is not as well studied as it is in Africa or Asia. In 2016, WWF reported that biodiversity declined 60 per cent on average between 1970 and 2012, and that illegal trade was one of the main engines of species loss. The new report, published in April, warns that if this trend continues, a new wave of extinctions will...
George at Asda – What makes clothing ownership and use sustainable?
Money & Business

George at Asda – What makes clothing ownership and use sustainable?

...business does to support sustainability...[ASDA] We all have clothes in our wardrobe we no longer wear and according to the UK charity Waste and Resource Action Plan (WRAP) around 30% of all unwanted clothing is thrown in the bin and ends up in landfill, even though all of these items still have some value. We all change shape and size, simply wear-out our clothing, and...
Methods in Motion: The magpie
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: The magpie

...money it might have and use. As a result, I have to draw on the works that best give meaning to these issues. That means that the knowledge and explanation I’m producing is in one way utterly subjective - they are ultimately a product of my own narrow interests and of certain intellectual currents. But for me the methods help give a meaning to the explanation, and in...
What's next for British wages?
Money & Business

What's next for British wages?

...money to buy goods. David Spencer explores these ideas in his article The simple win-win case for higher wages in Britain in The Conversation. There are, furthermore, attempts to provide a deeper analysis of why wages remain so persistently low. Conventional accounts of declining worker rights or crumbling welfare state do not fully address contemporary economic...
Make your clothes count
Nature & Environment

Make your clothes count

...money and resources while reducing our impact on the environment. Buying a new t-shirt should be a big decision. In the UK, we spend £1,700 per household on new clothing each year despite most of us not even wearing 30% of what’s in our wardrobes during the last twelve months. Before buying new clothing we encourage anyone to conduct a wardrobe audit, re-examining what...
Do our clothes shopping habits require retail therapy?
Nature & Environment

Do our clothes shopping habits require retail therapy?

...money. In my study at Coventry University I am exploring female attitudes towards the notion of buying fewer garments. I have found, unsurprisingly, that anticipating, browsing for, choosing, buying and wearing clothes provides women with a great deal of happiness. Motivated by pleasure and variety seeking to an extent, but also by the desire to measure up to social...