We couldn’t resist this one.
Perhaps we could ask you to just watch this video first and come back here?
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The story is about – if you haven’t guessed it yet, a German designer/scientist named Anke Domaske who has created a line of women’s clothing (and is working on a men’s line as well) which is made from fabric which is in turn made from milk.
The process invented by Domaske makes use of casein from sour organic milk that doesn’t meet German standards for sale to humans, heat it, mix it with things as beeswax and then spin the material into threads. The process eliminates the chemicals that have been used to turn milk byproducts into textiles.
The process was developed along with the Fiber Institute at the University of Bremen.
And this is not a single instance of sustainable design ideas. In this story, you can read about others also making fabric from casein – one being Milkofil(R) which claims: “Fiber that is made from casein, which is the main protein in milk, has long-term emissions of negative ions. It is thus beneficial for air quality, it stimulates blood circulation, is a natural antibacterial agent, and is sterile. Thanks to natural lubricants in the protein, you can toss the skin cream. It actually keeps your skin soft and moisturized. Plus, super soft and anti-bacterial fibers stabilize body temperature.”
Interested in the milk-as-silk idea? Read more about that here and here.
Another example of how sustainability is indeed a driver of innovation.
And strangely, it has left your bloggers intensely craving a chocolate chip cookie…
Trendy
PM Network magazine is the monthly publication of the Project Management Institute, or PMI. Its circulation is somewhere above 320,000 – and rising.
This month, they published their Fourth Annual “Trend Report”. These trends, says the article, are “forcing companies to look at projects in radical and revolutionary ways”. In fact, the subtitle of the cover story is, “The trends jolting the new business landscape”.
There are 5 trends identified and two of them fall squarely right here – at the intersection of green and project management.
The trends are:
Strangely, zebra boots are missing from the list. But we got your attention, so they served their purpose.
The two trends we’re talking about as being here at EarthPM, you can probably guess, are Truly Sustainable Sustainability and Perpetually Lean. In fact, these are two major threaded themes of our upcoming book.
In fact, really these two trends summarize EarthPM’s First Assertion: “A project run with green intent is the right thing to do, but it also will help the project team do things right.”
One could also argue that the other three are aspects of green PM, and in fact themes from the areas of the flattened world, innovation in process and product, and improvements in the way project teams can connect also are woven into our book.
So, we feel a sort of affirmation in seeing that our book has, for the lack of other words, a certain trendiness to it. We’re honest, we don’t mind being a little trendy.
Have a look at the new PM Network magazine, linked here.