Movers and MakersWhere do you go for pattern cutting, woodwork, life drawing and fermenting? Or taxidermy, jewellery or perfume making? It’s likely you’re…Jun 24, 2025Jun 24, 2025
Ethos Eights: Oslo Pioneers — EthosEvery year we head to Oslo for Innovation Week, for five days of inspiration, new ideas and forward-thinking. It’s September, so still…Mar 3, 2025Mar 3, 2025
Octopus’s Garden — EthosCoral Gardeners are replanting coral, one reef at a time, creating an underwater world every bit as vibrant and psychedelic as the Beatles…Oct 30, 2024Oct 30, 2024
Vitamin Sea(weed) — EthosHarvesting straight from the beach, Haeckels hauls seaweed up Margate’s cliff to its laboratory, building a business that’s both a B Corp…Nov 9, 2023Nov 9, 2023
What lies beneath?The way we produce food is destroying both soil health and biodiversity, making it harder to feed our global population. So how can we feed…Jan 27, 2023Jan 27, 2023
Munch versus the machineThe last time we were in Oslo, the MUNCH museum on the city’s elegant waterfront was a clanking building site, surrounded by hoardings…Oct 31, 2022Oct 31, 2022
An hour with Barack ObamaA stampede of smart, suited adults sprints across the hall of Oslo’s X Meeting Point at 15:50 in the afternoon. Like the charge for the…Jan 14, 2020Jan 14, 2020
Sally Gilford and Salford MakersArtist and print-maker Sally Gilford has seen her involvement with the Beautiful Ideas Company weave a thread through a range of…Aug 12, 2019Aug 12, 2019
Ten: then and nowIt’s been some decade. When you look back to early 2009, it seems like another country out there. Definitely another time and another…Jan 24, 2019Jan 24, 2019
Published inWordscapeMind the gap…Research shows the scale of the investment gap between male- and female-led businesses, in spite of female-run businesses out-performing…May 22, 2018May 22, 2018