Archive for the ‘Trendwatching’ Category
Monday, August 30th, 2010
Verteego is proud to present Verteego Construction, an online carbon assessment application especially designed to meet the needs of the building and public works industry.
Based on its various discussions with its customers (Group IDEC, IOISIS Nord, SETEC, VEYER, Le Bon Marché, Communauté d'Agglomération de Sarreguemines-Confluence, Communauté d'Agglomération de Val-et-Forêt (the ...
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Monday, August 9th, 2010
At first glance, it seems that the answer is a plain yes : every actor of the manufacturing industry, every importer has to deal with hundreds, even thousands of suppliers and sub-contractors from all over the world on a daily basis.
The latter, understandably reluctant to communicate too much information to ...
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Monday, June 21st, 2010
It began in America, and is now spreading among the environmentally conscious,well-educated and generally well-off European consumers : "it" is the locavore trend. Locavore was the 2007 Oxford's word of the year, but here is a quick definition in case you missed it :a locavore is someone who exclusively (or at least primarily) eats foods from ...
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
We speak to many small & medium business owners who come and ask us: why should my company execute a sustainability strategy? Isn't sustainability a waste of time & money in these difficult economic times?
Our answer is usually the following: SMEs who are not committed to expanding sustainably will die. ...
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Friday, November 28th, 2008
Labelled as the world's first sustainable city, the Dongtan Eco-city project in China is meant to be sustainable not only environmentally, but also socially, economically and culturally. It is the ambition of the Chinese government and UK engineering and construction giant Arup.
So what is this visionary eco-city supposed ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Sybarite, a British architecture firm, has designed an extraordinary architectural concept: the Dice House.
Not that I'd exchange my (also extraordinary) 30m² appartment for that... ;-), but I find the concept pretty interesting, and not only visually (though I have to admit it is rather eye-catching):
But what's even more interesting, is ...
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