What is the future of liveable cities? 26th of February marks the start of two-day conference Cognitive Cities, which tries to find an anwer to this question. Urban planners, designers, technology geeks, environmental experts, public officials, urban gardening enthusiasts and cultural influencers are attending the conference in Berlin, which aims to create a platform for [...]
Inspirational speaker for today is Ray Anderson, founder of Interface, the company behind successful carpet tiles Flor. Since reading Paul Hawken’s book The Ecology of Commerce, Anderson has run his company in a sustainable fashion and has made a commitment to what he calls Mission Zero: “our promise to eliminate any negative impact our company may have on the [...]
In memory of a man who loved the forest, my beloved grandpa, today’s blog entry concerns the ever ongoing problem of deforestation. At the moment, an outcry from organization Ecological Internet warns against a UK goverment plan to put half of England’s state-owned forests
Malmö is the third biggest city in Sweden. It is hardly a metropolis, containing a population of only about 250 000 inhabitants, but it it modern and fast-growing and always at the forefront of sustainable innovation. American environmental magazine Grist ranks Malmö as the fourth greenest
Have you started thinking about your New Year’s resolutions? Well, it’s about time! Mostly we wow to make changes which more or less affect ourselves and the ones closest to us – we decide to lose weight, advance our careers, see the family more, stop smoking and so on. This year, why not think bigger [...]
Let me guess – you still haven’t done all your Christmas shopping and really aren’t tempted to spend the next few days among thousands of other desperate souls, having the holiday spirit slowly sucked out of you between endless queues, sharp elbows and non-stop playing Christmas carols? Never fear, enorm is here for you. Here [...]
If you, like me, are curious about exactly what was discussed and decided at the Cancun Climate Summit on 29th of November to 10th of December, please have a look at this day-to-day summary of the event, composed by The Climate Institute‘s Erwin Jackson & Will McGoldrick. You can also watch the series of videos [...]
Recently, my lovely colleague Catharina at the German enorm blog asked me to participate in a Stöckchenwürf. Not so easily translated, a Stöckchenwurf is kind of a blogging relay race, where a specific subject is passed on from blogger to blogger. Each person writes an entry on the subject within a week, inviting two new [...]
Floating Island International, LLC, is a privately owned company led by inventor Bruce Kania. What they do is pretty cool: they build islands out of trash. About ten years ago, Bruce invented a way to turn plastic trash into man-made floating islands – essentially creating a way of growing real estate. It’s possible to grow [...]
Are you a young journalist between ages 16 and 30 who writes about socio-economic and environmental issues? Then consider yourself invited to compete in reporting about Enterprise 2020. European Youth Press and CSR Europe, the European business network for corporate social responsibility, are currently inviting young journalists from around Europe to
