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From Repair Café to reputation building
Repair Cafés provide an attractive “franchisable” way to implement circular-economy thinking – rooted in community not product Set up in 2010, the Amsterdam-based Repair Café Foundation has a wonderful genre-bridging perspective that seems to provide a great example of how circular economy measures can be made to work in practice. The Foundation wants to bring back and re-invent the basic idea of repair as...
Read moreReduxing the redoubtable Honda Cub
IMHO, one of the biggest cultural deficiencies of Danish life is that there are no Honda Cubs on the road. Time to reconsider, 60 years on? In my humble opinion, one of the biggest cultural deficiencies of life in Denmark is the absence of the ubiquitous, unbreakable Honda C50 Cub – tiny, tough and quirkily wonderful. In continuous production since 1958 with output...
Read moreLaunderettes in car parks
Outdoor launderettes plonked in car parks bring a traditional type of business back from extinction – with the Revolution footfall generator A drab supermarket car park in the United Kingdom is probably the last place you’d expect to see business innovation and disruptive entrepreneurship, or the death of the doughty launderette being disproved. The launderette migrates outdoors There’s a well-known cultural meme about launderettes, involving sitting...
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