Tozi Restaurant and Bar
Tozi Restaurant and Bar 8 Gillingham St, Pimlico, London SW1V 1HJ “Tozi” means “bunch of friends” in Venetian dialect. This is exactly the ambience that TOZI seeks and achieves. Venice born Daniele Pampagnin came up with the concept for TOZI back in 2013. His good friend Head Chef Maurilio Molteni joined him and has since […]
Truffles, treasure of the forest
Love them or loathe them, truffles evoke the strongest emotions in people. For those who love them, there’s no doubting the allure of one of the most gourmet and magical ingredients in the world. Devotees eagerly await the new season’s arrival, and last year a four pound white truffle – the so called “World’s Largest” […]
Bank on Innovation? By Jamie Keeley, Innovation Consultant
We live in a world where technology is thrusting change faster than ever. As a species we are evolving to sustain uptake of the constant bombardment of data, diluted in clever marketing. I, and probably all of us, need various elements to survive in this reality we have created over time: food, water, air and […]
Global Challenges, Local Opportunities – By Daniel Lacalle
The recent elections in the Eurozone have shown that the risks to the European project remain. In Germany, an insufficient victory from Merkel, the collapse of the social democrats and the rise of the alternative right and extreme left have surprised many. However, it was predictable. The relief rally in the Euro versus its trading […]
Nature’s Solutions to Global Challenges
By Inger Andersen, Director General, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Nature conservation wasn’t always regarded as the obvious route to development. In Guatemala, where farmers are sustainably growing cocoa while conserving forests, it has become just that. Sustainable cocoa used to make products like fair trade chocolate allow Guatemalan farmers to earn up […]
Maria Haziestefanis – The Unexpected Entrepreneur
Maria says that getting fired from her banking job at the age of 25 was the best thing that ever happened to her… We will probably have to agree given that just a couple of years later she had founded Rodial, a cosmetic business that today is worth £100million, and she did it all without […]
Steve Amstutz – CCO of Parmigiani Fleurier
Taking its name from its founder, watchmaker and restorer Michel Parmigiani, Parmigiani was founded in 1996 in Fleurier, in the Swiss valley of Val-de-Travers. With its own watchmaking centre ensuring its independence, the brand has both full control over the production process and unique creative freedom. For more than twenty years, the Parmigiani Fleurier signature […]
Princess Yachts – Excellence in British manufacturing
Princess has always strived to deliver voyages of endless possibility to each and every customer, and continue to do so by building yachts to international acclaim in their shipyards in Plymouth, the oldest of which dates back to the 17th century. With a detail-oriented culture of innovation, these yachts are internationally recognised for their technology, […]
Bright Young Things: Eve De Haan – For the love of words
Eve De Haan is a London based young artist with an incredible appetite for creativity. Having left university with a degree in Theology, Eve has explored many fields of creativity: she has written, illustrated and published a children’s book, taken on interior design projects, and produced artwork using acrylics and collage. Her love of the […]
Ice, microbes and climate change by Dr. Joseph Cook
Ice on Earth Earth is heating up because humans have made the atmosphere more effective at trapping energy. As a result, glaciers and ice sheets are shrinking, releasing water into the oceans and raising sea levels. The Greenland Ice Sheet alone has lost about 3600 billion tonnes of ice since 2002. Melting ice is one […]
