Reversing the damage selfie culture is doing to Gen Z
The challenge with purpose-led marketing, particularly where a position on social issues is put front and centre, is that it can lack...
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Time to TerraCycle your blister packs at Superdrug
From pain killers to multivitamins, all our bathroom cabinets will be stuffed full of the blister packs that most tablets now come in....
Do our personal sustainability strategies need to go back to the future?
I'm old enough to remember when pretty much all the milk we drank was delivered direct to your door. By the milk man, not as part of your...
Why Bitcoin is so bad for the planet
I'm sure, like me, most people don't really understand the mechanics of Bitcoin. But something has surfaced recently that few have...
The tipping point of stuff: what we make now outweighs all living things
Not all our achievements are something to be proud of. Nor is climate change the only anthropogenic environmental crisis we face....
Make racism extinct: new work for Create Not Hate
To coincide with Black History Month, we have some new work out as part of our Create Not Hate initiative. Quick recap: CnH was founded...
Why there's more than 3 Rs in sustainability
The 3 Rs have been around for a long time now: reduce, reuse, recycle. Jack Johnson even wrote a song about them. But there is a strong...
How the financial markets could switch from environmental destroyers to saviours of the world
Following on from their must-read Living Planet report, Our Planet: Too Big To Fail is a new documentary from WWF that's definitely worth...
"And once more for the back: PEOPLE CAN'T BE ILLEGAL"
I'm really not sure why everyone has got their knickers in such a twist over Ben & Jerry's tweets yesterday challenging our Government...
Contracts for the boys
As everyone gets maybe a bit too overexcited by Rishi's latest bargain bonanza giveaways, we shouldn't let this distract from the other...
The battle for trust in an age of rage
I may come across as a bit of a gushing fanboy here, but when it comes to bravery in research Steve Lacey is up at the top of the list no...
IPG announces Media Responsibility Principles
Response to the Stop Hate For Profit campaign has already seen nearly 10% wiped off Facebook's market value in a few days. Unilever's...
Do those who work in marketing and advertising have an empathy problem?
For what we do to be successful, marketing and advertising is dependent on one fundamental above all others: that we understand and...
The politicisation of humanitarian aid undermines a just future
The Government has come under a lot of pressure from business leaders over recent weeks to deliver a green and just recovery post-Covid....
Stop Hate For Profit: don't advertise with Facebook
Driven by a collection of civil rights groups and not for profits in the US, Stop Hate For Profit is a new campaign targeting Facebook...
Optimism is a strategy
In the words of Noam Chomsky... “Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be...
The benefits of reduced consumption as Britain kicks its coal habit for more than two months
Last week the Drax power station was brought online for regular maintenance. In doing so it contributed some coal-fired energy to the...
I'm really not a racist...
A nice bit of poetry from Charles Dale that hits the nail... Originally posted here.
Ben & Jerry's and Black Lives Matter: purpose in action not a knee-jerk comms response
The visceral reaction to the death of George Floyd in the US, and the way the Black Lives Matter movement has been embraced...
Marcus Rashford shows the real power of influence
Influencers, celebrity or otherwise, are often criticised for what they are influencing: the power they wield more often than not used in...