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Changemakers: Dodds & Shute
Changemakers: Dodds & Shute
Meet game-changers who are disrupting business-as-usual in the furniture industry through sustainable procurement and storytelling. We ask Dodds & Shute about their sustainability audit and rating system in Changemakers, our latest interview series.
Climate Activist Consumers Business responds
Climate Activist Consumers Business responds
Consumers are using their purchasing power to fight climate change. In our second article in the FURNITURE in the NEW CLIMATE ECONOMY series, we explore how businesses in the furniture industry tap into this consumer-activist trend, bringing innovation to areas as wide-ranging as design, production, service and communication.
Rethinking Wood: Five Innovations
Rethinking Wood: Five Innovations
Welcome to our first article in the series, FURNITURE in the NEW CLIMATE ECONOMY. Increasing demand for wood has led to severe deforestation, which is a significant contributor to climate change—second only to burning fossil fuels. With such high demand for wood, what are alternatives?
Furniture in the New Climate Economy
Furniture in the New Climate Economy
Our new 06-part series, FURNITURE in the NEW CLIMATE ECONOMY, will explore the multiple ways in which climate change is accelerating innovation across the furniture industry, from materials to business models. How can we redesign the furniture industry – and everyday furniture – with climate in mind?
Carbon & your Coffee Table
Carbon & your Coffee Table
On the heels of the COP27 convening in Egypt – world leaders arm wrestling about solutions to climate change – it's time to dig into the climate impact of the furniture industry.
"This spark, that tool, we're just getting started"
"This spark, that tool, we're just getting started"
We were thrilled to be invited onto the Sustainability Champions podcast! Diving into our CIRCULAR DESIGN GLOSSARY: Furniture & Furnishings, the podcast explored new – and sometimes age-old – sustainable approaches to designing, building and sourcing furniture.
Changemakers: Vestre
Changemakers: Vestre
Just weeks before my visit to Norway this summer, Vestre, a Norwegian manufacturer of urban furniture, opened The Plus, “the world’s most environmentally friendly furniture factory.” Intrigued, I shot over an email – and was honored, a few weeks later, to get the chance to sit down with Øyvind Bjørnstad, Chief Sustainability Officer.