by Surabhi N and Jake Levy (On Purpose April’19 Cohort)There’s a good chance you’re aware by now that one of the most powerful decisions you can make as an individual to fight climate change is to switch your pension plan to an ethical option....
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Food waste. It’s a big problem.Roughly one-third of all food produced for people to eat globally gets lost or wasted, and if we took all of the food that was wasted in the US, UK and Europe, we could feed nearly all the one billion hungry people...
Continue readingHosting, we learnt at Co-Lab’s November 2019 training course, is setting up spaces and processes which are flexible enough to allow groups of people to come together and decide for themselves what work will be done and how they will do it — to...
Continue readingI’m sure you’ve experienced it at some point. The rush of a new idea for a social enterprise. The theme-park exhilaration of realising this idea is going to change the world. The slight ego-boost that comes from humbly (but not too humbly)...
Continue readingAlison Glossop, one our October 2019 Associates, is halfway through her first placement at NatWest. In this article she shares her experience of attending a zero carbon conference where she left feeling inspired to find new ways of fighting the...
Continue readingToday, 8th January 2020, On Purpose declares a Climate Emergency, formally recognising the urgent threat faced by humanity. We urge you to do the same.On Purpose was launched in 2010 to support the development of the social and environmental...
Continue readingLong gone are the days of stuffing your mattress full of bank notes; nowadays, it’s rare to live without access to financial products. We all rely on being able to access money from ATMs, pay back money we owe, and if we are lucky, save a bit for...
Continue readingDepending on which day in December you speak to me, I either love or hate Christmas. I find it equal parts exciting and stressful; some years I have all my Christmas presents purchased before December begins and some years I’m in tears on...
Continue readingBroadly, I’m in agreement with this article. If we are to win the fight against climate change, collective political action is necessary, individual consumer choices will do nothing on their own, and trying to overturn the negative effects of a...
Continue readingOn the second day of my On Purpose placement with the London Borough of Ealing I was invited to attend the exclusive Homes for Londoners event. Being completely new to the social housing sector and only one day in, I felt totally out of my depth...
Continue readingOn the 22nd August, in the wake of that the purpose of their companies is to serve all stakeholders, the Economist magazine asked itself: ?In light of the climate emergency and the recent (and upcoming) days of action, this question takes on even...
Continue readingAs an, sustainability and systems change are two of the key social and environmental topics that arise frequently in debate and discussion with my cohort and in our wider community.I believe the way we build food and farming systems has a major...
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