“In such seclusion, so far from the pressures under which most people live, I had the feeling that something new, some fresh and saner way of living might be demonstrated” (Gerard Morgan-Grenville 1931-2009). Located in a 100-year-old disused slate quarry…
Month: November 2022
Rodda’s clotted cream cultivates community spirit and charity
Cornish Clotted Cream – the food of the Gods (former Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, 1809-1898) In the UK, according to the 1935 Goodheart, Sigler and Hoffman song “everything stops for tea” but not only that - on the last…
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HES celebrates Entrepreneurship Education
It is wonderful to celebrate with UWTSD, home to the HES Society, on its 40th anniversary of Entrepreneurship Education. A triple celebration of GEW2022, UWTSD's 200th year, and the university's long and productive journey with entrepreneurship education, also marked by…
Takachar transforming waste biomass
In 2021, 30-year-old Vidyut Mohar, an India Engineering entrepreneur and Sustainability graduate of the Delft University of Technology, won the inaugural Earthshot prize with his business partner, Dr Kevin Kung, a biological engineering graduate of MIT. In 2015, they had…
Oxwash: shrinking environmental costs and impacts
“Focus on the team first, then the customer, then the investor and expect from your team what you expect from yourself. You can achieve a lot, but you are only human” - Dr. Kyle Grant Each year the £70bn garment…
The Library of Things
“If everybody in the world consumed resources at the rate we do in the UK, we would need 3.5 planets to sustain us” This was the realisation that prompted three friends, Emma Shaw, Rebecca Trevalyan, and Sophia Wyatt to start…
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