Our business game on sustainable business innovation 'play-it-forward' in DE TIJD

Yesterday, 'De Tijd' dedicated a full report (11 pages!) on sustainability in its newspaper. It is a mix of articles on new eco-services, policies, practices, CSR-reporting, and a quick tour on what's happening on sustainability in the Belgian Business Community.

Things like CSR, energy-efficiency, carbon footprinting, Lifecycle analysis and fairtrade are instruments that a lot of professionals start to adopt today, and are familiar with.

I'm very happy that De Tijd also provided a lot of attention to our Business Game "play-it-forward" that does not starts from a 'responsability' point of view, but which is more like a creative and innovation approach. The main idea behind the business game is that you can create sustainability by improving and altering your business model.

On top of that: it is a game. That means that people discover the power of business model innovation in an intuitive, creative and competitive way. People easily get rid of barriers like departmental thinking, or keeping attached to business conventions.

More to be found on the business game here: www.businessmodeldesign.be

Taste the Waste

Taste the Waste - Trailer from bosrtv on Vimeo.

Seems to be a promising documentary that will be shown at the Dutch National television: NED2, 16th of October; 9u30 and 17th of october, 23u00. When it comes to food spill, the movie shows us the astonishing numbers, the problems, the developments and possible solutions.

Dutch documentaries are often hurricanes. This reminds me of 'here comes the sun', or 'waste equals food' (Tegenlicht/ VPRO), and what revolution they were for the cradle-to-cradle awareness in Holland, and how they kickstarted a new way of thinking.

More to be found at the documentaries website: tastethewaste.nl/

Interview with Retail Detail on sustainability and retail

RetailDetail.be is a quite young Belgian portal website. They combine news of the industry with online services for the retail industry. After clicking here, you'll find an interview on sustainability as creative and commercial opportunity.