The Rise of Ready-Made Meals: Convenience at a Cost?
The story of ready-made meals dates back to the 1950s with the launch of TV dinners, which offered a revolution in convenience.
Read MoreRe-evaluating High Salaries in Charities: Breaking Free from Archaic Thinking
Part 2: There has long been a pervasive belief that high salaries in charities are inherently a problem. Many donors and supporters still cling to the outdated idea that charity workers, in order to be virtuous, should also be underpaid.
Read MoreShifting the Focus to Outcomes: A New Perspective for Business, Charities, and Personal Growth
Part 1: In both the business and non-profit worlds, the metrics we use to measure success are evolving. Traditionally, organizations have been judged by their inputs—how much they spend, how many staff they hire, or how quickly they grow.
Read MoreThe Great Recycling Deception: How Companies Knew for Decades Recycling Was Not Viable
A recent study by the Center for Climate Integrity has unearthed a troubling revelation: major corporations were aware for decades that recycling, as commonly practiced, was not a sustainable solution for waste management.
Read MoreNavigating Choice Fatigue: A Key to Saving the World
In our modern lives, we are bombarded with choices, from what to wear and what to eat to more significant decisions like career paths and environmental actions.
Read MoreEco-Friendly Celebrations: A Guide to Minimizing Christmas Impact
‘Tis the season to be jolly, but it’s also a time when our environmental footprint tends to grow.
Read MoreRethink: 10 years later…
Ten years since writing our first Rethink article, we re-explore how far things have come, if at all.
Read MoreThe Debate: Take-away Cup vs Reusable Cup
The rising trend to not offer crockery or reusable cups in coffee shops, and even more so since COVID, has once again stirred up the debate: Is a reusable cup more environmentally friendly than a take-away up?
Read MoreA journey in ethical enterprise
The Founder of The Expedition Project examines some key decisions over not just the last 10 years, but the 20 years prior to The Expedition Project’s launch.
Read MoreRETHINK: What must happen before Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
The world in a take-away coffee cup
(Written in 2013 before the movement started taking shape)
Have you ever wondered what the ecological and anthropological costs are of our consumer decisions? Can a simple quick consumer decision shape our future? For example, do you know what the hidden financial and health costs are of all those take-away cups that deliver your morning caffeine fix? Put another way, did you realize that the world’s largest coffee chain served 2.3 billion cups of coffee in take-away cups last year, a number that keeps growing annually?
