June 30, 2023
Our sustainability journey started with our founder Ray Anderson’s “spear in the chest” moment in 1994. It was then that Ray was asked a question that would forever change the trajectory of our company: “What is your company doing for the environment?” To find the answers to this question, Ray read a book by Paul…
August 5, 2022
For years, the world’s industries have been dominated by a linear, degenerative and destructive economy. We took the Earth’s materials, made them into things we needed or wanted, used them for a while, and then threw them away – the relationship between resources and products existing in a one-way flow of traffic, designed to extract…
May 19, 2021
As with lots of events over the past twelve months, the AJ Summit was hosted on a virtual platform. The advantage of a shift to a digital delivery, is the improved reach of an event like this. This year’s summit was a fantastic way to encourage a wider audience to move in the same direction to address the issues the planet faces.
December 19, 2018
Can waste be turned into a source of wealth? Yes. According to more than 80 business, government and academia leaders who have made a Waste to Wealth Commitment to help collectively double the UK’s resource productivity and reduce avoidable waste by 2030. At the recent Waste to Wealth Summit in London, HRH The Prince of…
April 24, 2018
China’s shift in recycling waste plastic Recently, the door closed to what was, until now, the dominant market for recycling waste plastic. In 2017, the People’s Republic of China announced that it would no longer accept 24 categories of recyclables and solid waste, instead replacing imported materials with recycled material collected domestically. In the previous…
April 26, 2017
On the island of Sag, in the Danajon Bank, a group of 12-18 year olds have come together to form a youth savings group (known locally as a CoMSCA). Together, they are saving money to put towards their school expenses. When asked why they wanted to start a CoMSCA, they replied: “For the experience and…
April 20, 2017
Donna Liza Palma, aged 36, lives in the village of Bay-ang, Nothern Iloilo. She is a member of her local community bank (known as a CoMSCA), which was set up by Net-Works. Donna has been spreading the word about CoMSCAs and their benefits across her community. She’s a real community champion and the news has…
April 10, 2017
As part of my job within Conservation Programmes at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), I get to witness, first hand, Net-Works in action. In February this year I spent two weeks in the Philippines, trialling electronic data collection, and met with some of the members of the local community banks that Net-Works has helped…
February 21, 2017
I met the guy in the picture 6 years ago. His name is Emile. We met on the beach in his village, Londji – one of the most important fish markets on the south coast of Cameroon – near to the southern border of the Douala-Edea reserve. I had just arrived in Cameroon to support…
September 29, 2016
As part of Net-Works, we’re helping communities find ways to diversify their livelihoods in order to avoid total reliance on fishing. The process of cultivating and harvesting seaweed has developed in the Philippines and throughout Asia as an accessible alternative for fishing communities. Eucheuma, a red sea-plant native to Philippine marine waters, has been described…
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