Sustainability is the new digital revolution

“Reinvent products

Sustainable innovation is creating new products that can be produced with fewer carbon emissions, less waste and an emphasis on enhancing wellness. For instance, Unilever makes toothpaste tablets in reusable containers, and Procter & Gamble sells soap swatches that become cleaning products (hand soap, shampoo, laundry detergent) when you add water.”

Sustainability is the new digital revolution
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/davos-agenda-sustainability-digital-revolution/
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How Germany and Costa Rica are putting nature at the heart of their recoveries: a balanced relationship with nature

“First we need to understand the direct relationship between pandemics and zoonosis (transmission of animal-human diseases),” says Rodriguez. “Only by establishing a balanced relationship with nature can we see key benefits such as improved quality of jobs, food and water security, as well as improved human health.””

How Germany and Costa Rica are putting nature at the heart of their recoveries
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/costa-rica-germany-nature-based-policy/
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Responsibility or Ruin | by Joschka Fischer - Project Syndicate

“is not unreasonable to expect that future historians will remember 2020 as the beginning of an era of transformative change. This could be the moment when, having realized the consequences of how we have organized our economic systems and engaged with nature, we finally commit to a decisive shift toward sustainability.”

Responsibility or Ruin | by Joschka Fischer - Project Syndicate
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/transformation-of-human-relationship-with-nature-after-covid19-by-joschka-fischer-2020-07
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The end of the Arab world’s oil age is nigh

“But don’t be fooled. The world’s economies are moving away from fossil fuels. Oversupply and the increasing competitiveness of cleaner energy sources mean that oil may stay cheap for the foreseeable future. The recent turmoil in oil markets is not an aberration; it is a glimpse of the future. The world has entered an era of low prices—and no region will be more affected than the Middle East and north Africa.”

The end of the Arab world’s oil age is nigh
https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2020/07/18/the-end-of-the-arab-worlds-oil-age-is-nigh
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7 predictions for the new normal post-pandemic

“Futurist Gerd Leonhard, who is based in Zurich, says the threat of the pandemic has caused a “global reset” that he predicts will take two or three years to iron out.

“The rules of capitalism are changing,” he says. “We cannot strictly apply only financial benefits to a relationship, and that’s become clear in the treatment of the virus.””

7 predictions for the new normal post-pandemic
https://www.intheblack.com/articles/2020/07/01/7-predictions-for-new-normal-post-pandemic
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‘Travel will never, ever go back to the way it was,’ Airbnb CEO says

“I will go on the record to say that travel will never, ever go back to the way it was pre-COVID. It just won’t,” Chesky told Axios. “There are sometimes months when decades of transformation happen.””

‘Travel will never, ever go back to the way it was,’ Airbnb CEO says
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/travel-will-never-ever-go-back-to-the-way-it-was-airbnb-ceo-says-2020-06-28
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Airbnb CEO: It took Us 12 Years to Build, and We Lost Almost Everything in 6 Weeks

“Tourism as we knew it is over. I don't want to say that the journey is over, but rather that the model we knew has died and will not return. We are going to get in our cars, drive a few kilometers to a small community and stay in a house.”

Airbnb CEO: It took Us 12 Years to Build, and We Lost Almost Everything in 6 Weeks
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/352419
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