
23 2024 September
UK Non-Profit Ties Baby Slings on Statues to Fight for Paternity Leave
Across London this week, people have been encountering an unusual sight. Statues of famous men are adorned with wraparound baby carriers filled with dolls. The exhibits...
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04 2024 September
Why Branded Reselling Platforms That Allow Customers to Sell Old Products to Each Other May Be Better Than Ebay
Sustainability-first brands like Patagonia have taken their commitment to reuse to the furthest extreme by creating an entire ecommerce experience dedicated to allowing their customers...
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07 2024 August
Women’s Athletics Are a Big Story at Paris 2024 … But Equality Remains a Challenge
This is the first Olympics which will have true parity in terms of male versus female athletes and competitors. It’s a big story here at the...
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05 2024 August
The Best Part of the Olympics You Don’t Get to See … Country Houses
For me, every Olympics has different highlights, from being one of the few non-athletes allowed in the Olympic Village in Beijing to watching Usain Bolt complete a...
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24 2024 July
Welcome to a Future Where Food Is Made from Thin Air
Last year when Henry and I were writing The Future Normal, we wrote about a trend we named Unnaturally Better and profiled Solar Foods, a company...
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15 2024 July
Porto and the Importance of City Branding
As I write this, I’m just off the stage here in Portugal at one of the largest business conferences of the year in Europe at...
Read Now12 2024 July
How Global Sports Are Showcasing a Surprising Upside of Immigration
This summer is a back-to-back sports frenzy in my household. It started with the T20 Cricket World Cup, followed closely by two major soccer tournaments:...
Read Now27 2024 June
Do We All Need a Media Blacklist?
Back in April, a reporter from the NY Times hiked 50 miles through the Amazon rainforest in order to visit and report on a story...
Read Now27 2024 May
IKEA Organizes Flea Markets Across Europe to Help People Sell Used Items
This summer, in their ample parking lots across several European cities, IKEA will be hosting weekend flea markets for people to come and sell their...
Read Now02 2024 May
Can Seaweed Mining Become the Next Billion Dollar Industry?
A tiny branch of the US Department of Energy focused on high-risk projects just awarded $5 million dollars to three startup ventures that are each...
Read Now30 2024 April
How Water Flipping, Excess Solar Energy and Shifting Hydropower Stations Show Us the Future Is All About Water
The skies were orange above Athens and that was just one of several climate and energy related stories this week that offered a glimpse into stories we...
Read Now26 2024 April
Why Industrial Tourism Is One of the Fastest Growing Trends in Travel
Portugal is one of several countries investing big into industrial tourism – a term that describes experiences where travelers can visit factories to see how products get...
Read Now23 2024 April
What Would You Put In the “Forever Library” to Archive Human Existence for a Billion Years?
Several million years from now when future civilizations or aliens or whatever is around then look back on human existence, at least they will know...
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