Radical Resource Productivity is a term coined in the book “Natural Capitalism” by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and Hunter Lovins in the 1990s. It refers to the idea that we need to improve by orders of magnitude the amount of output we get from one unit of resource input (e.g. energy, water, an acre of land, [...]
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McKinsey’s long anticipated report on Sustainability & Resource Productivity is out. It’s a stunning report containing stunning numbers. It’s seriously sobering – yet in many ways exciting – reading. I recommend it to ANYONE. When the world’s pre-eminent consulting firm makes such an impassioned plea for what my colleague Erich Harris, Sustainability Coordinator for the [...]
