Sustainability Articles
Predicting the unpredictable: the future of manufacturing
Dr Dai Morgan from the IfM's Centre for Industrial Sustainability (CIS) reflects on the UK government's recent Foresight report on the future of manufacturing.
New business models for a sustainable future
Dr Doroteya Vladimirova from the IfM's Centre for Industrial Sustainability contends that manufacturers need to start doing business differently if they are to create value for themselves and for society as a whole.
Industrial sustainability: paradox or paradigm?
Professor Steve Evans is working with manufacturers to make manufacturing more sustainable. He explains that the environment, society and manufacturers can all benefit from increasing non-labour resource efficiency, re-thinking business models and transforming industrial systems.
Grass-root circular economy through creative waste innovation
Dr Curie Park explains how recent projects in Thailand have nurtured local entrenpreneurship through the creation of innovative products made with industrial waste and ocean plastic waste.
Can policy simulations help developing economies after COVID-19?
In the wake of the economic jolt of the coronavirus, Nazia Habib explains how policy simulation labs can help developing economies chart a path to recovery.
Food security in a warming world
Dr Nazia Mintz Habib answers questions about the increasingly precarious global food supply chain in an interview with RICS.
Manufacturing plays a vital role in creating a truly sustainable world by 2050
Seven years ago, Professor Steve Evans helped to write a major report for Whitehall on the future of British manufacturing and sustainability. In the wake of COVID-19, he looks back on the predictions and what the future looks like today for policy makers and executives.
EIT Food Accelerator Network provides showcase and support to growing agritech and foodtech ventures
The IfM is in the third year of running the Cambridge hub of the EIT Food Accelerator Network, offering expert mentoring and helping agritech and foodtech start-ups across Europe to increase their chance of becoming commercially and sustainably successful.
Quick win sustainability strategies from the IfM
Insights from the IfM show that rapid sustainability improvements are not only achievable, but can also improve the bottom line.
Sustainability: making the invisible visible
In our conversation with the IfM's Centre for Industrial Sustainability, we explore the crucial importance of making industrial resources more visible. By bringing to light some of the often neglected aspects, we discover how — as resources become more visible — their value increases, which results in a crucial step towards achieving environmental, climatic, and financial benefits.
A more sustainable cuppa: Driving sustainability at Kenyan tea factories
IfM partnered with top tea producer Eastern Produce Kenya to promote simple - but effective - energy-saving practices at two tea estates in the Nandi Hills.
Gamifying sustainability: delivering worker engagement and environmental impact
Raynor Foods is renowned for its innovative initiatives and is currently focusing on the challenge of inspiring its entire workforce to enhance sustainability. In pursuit of this goal, they have initiated the S3 Project in partnership with academic and technological collaborators to establish a digital twin factory for real-time monitoring of carbon emissions. They plan to use gamification to involve employees in reducing the company’s carbon footprint.
Resource efficiency: Can sustainability and improved profit go hand-in-hand?
Professor Steve Evans shares his insights into how resource efficiency can be good news for your profit margins as well as the environment.
Boosting industrial sustainability through transformative technologies
Manufacturers are already working towards strategies which can both improve their sustainability practices and deliver on business objectives. Among these leaders, there is innovative thinking about the role for digital technologies can play. But what might this look like? Professor Steve Evans shares his insights.
The environmental impact of a Playstation 4
Journalist Lewis Gordon worked with IfM's Dr Claire Barlow and colleague Dr John Durrell to unpick the carbon footprint and impact on workers of this soon-to-be-obsolete console, with eye-watering findings.
From plastic waste to better homes in Nepal
Nepal faces a growing plastic waste crisis, with 600 tonnes littering streets and mountains daily. Dr. Curie Park’s Plastic to Ghar (P2G) project, supported by UK Aid and UNCTAD, empowers communities to turn plastic waste into sustainable building materials, transforming pollution into a resource and creating local hubs for innovation.
