Cork industry pulls out all the stops to stay afloat
It’s found in bottles, shoes, crypt floors and space ships: JASON AGNEW raises his glass to toast a natural wonder
When many of us think...
Say it with flowers — or a green greeting card…
IT’S ALL about electronic communication nowadays, but the UK still produces 200 million greeting cards each year. And as with almost everything else, that...
AI finds a niche in climate policy
AN OPEN AI-powered tool is unlocking over 1,600 documents and 170,000 pages of global climate policy and research.
Climate Policy Radar’s Global Stocktake Explorer, funded...
Warehouse? There house! Sector thinks laterally
Commercial proptech is facing challenges and changing demands, writes PAULIUS KVEDARAS
THE RECESSION is raising interest rates, causing property yields and prices to shrink.
With...
DIY projects can go wrong – as Wesfarmers finds out in...
Home and hardware chain Homebase is sold for the princely sum of £1 – with strings attached…
By HAL WILLIAMS
THE UK DIY chain Homebase has...
SCORE-ing big! How a cooperative approach to improved work conditions in...
Improving SMEs workplace practices can help them achieve better productivity. The ILO’s SCORE Training programme is helping companies in China improve work conditions, and...
IFC: Climate Change – Threat and Opportunity for Private Sector
As world leaders met at the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) in...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Waiting for the Age of Reason
Her life has been an extraordinary journey across varied political, cultural, and geographical landscapes. She is beautiful, intelligent, courageous, and quite outspoken.
Author, campaigner, politician,...
Importance of SMEs to UK economy — and how to encourage...
CHRIS THOMPSON explains why small is beautiful for the future of Britain’s GDP
CAPITALISM is under the microscope at the moment, largely because of the...
EV News Round-up Autumn 2019
By RICHARD THOMAS
THREE months have passed since the last issue of BV, each bringing more developments in the Electric Vehicles world — on the...
