Month: February 2025

The origin story of NELIS: How an idea grew into a new generation of sustainability leaders

NELIS was established as a non-profit in Japan on January 30, 2015. But the story goes back to the summer of 2004.   In 2000, I co-founded one of Japan’s first sustainability consultancies, E-Square Inc., in Tokyo with Tachi Kiuchi, former Chairman of Mitsubishi Electric America. From scratch, we worked our way into companies like …

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Ecover: Sustainable cleaning products scale up into a multinational

Main Theme Sub-theme: Sustainable cleaning products; packaging; bulk  Abstract Ecover is a Belgian company founded in 1979 by a group of scientists and environmental enthusiasts following the discovery that phosphates in conventional detergents were causing harm to aquatic life and waterways per se. From the beginning, the brand focused on creating detergents that were not …

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