sustainable products

Most green workplace guides read the same way. Turn off your monitor. Get a recycling bin. Add plants. None of them explains which habits generate ESG data. Nor do they explain which habits are just good feelings with no reporting value. That distinction matters now. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, 30% of the energy in commercial buildings is wasted.  That number is not a design problem. It is a behaviour problem. The lights were left on in empty meeting

Most businesses know they spend too much. Few know exactly where. Heating runs while no one is in the building. Devices sit on standby all night. The printer warms up again and again for a handful of pages. Individually, none of these feels like a big problem. That is exactly why they rarely get fixed. Analyses of commercial buildings show that operational issues, such as poor scheduling and controls, can easily waste 20–30% of total energy use. In office portfolios, this kin

Every week, another brand launches a product with a recyclability claim. Some of them are accurate. A lot of them aren’t, not because the company lied, but because nobody checked whether the infrastructure to back up the claim actually exists where customers live. This is a design problem. Specifically, it’s a problem with where design sits in the decision-making chain. Most organisations treat design as a final layer, the team that makes things look good and feel right befo