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Onzo reveal the shape of mass-market product
Congratulations to Onzo, the smart energy company spun off from More Associates just one year ago, who have released much-anticipated images of the Onzo product that will shortly be dropping through the letterboxes of energy-savers. The smart energy-saving kit is designed to be easy-to-use, attractive, and efficient; all so that people can save energy and carbon as easily as possible. Have a look at their press release here. Onzo products will be available in mid-2009 through Scottish and Southern Energy in the UK, and through retail and energy suppliers globally.
Read more...More Associates anticipates 2009; wishes merry Christmas and a happy New Year to everyone!
2008 was an exciting year for More: It was the year that Onzo became independent, won major investment to take climate-change to the masses, and was later listed in the Guardian clean-tech 100. The new GVEP International website was shortlisted for the prestigious EBIC Social Impact Awards for its success in taking sophisticated knowledge and information management to the third sector. And John Grant's 'Green Marketing Manifesto' recently won the environmental category of the British Book Design and Production Awards 2008.
Read more...Environmental book design of the year goes to More Associates project
We're very proud to announce that the the Green Marketing Manifesto by John Grant won the Environmental award in the British Book Design and Production Awards 2008. Visual design, art-direction, sustainable design and technical approach for the book were delivered by More Associates. The design maintained the quality feel of a hardback book, while reducing its embodied carbon and waste impact, and reflecting the content of the book in its production.
Read more...Sustainable profitability and the new economic reality
The last few weeks have thrown up plenty of speculation about what the current economic crisis will do to the efforts of businesses and governments on sustainability issues. From here at More it looks as though prospects for doing sustainable business in this new environment are if anything improved - making more value at less cost is the central idea that business and sustainability share. In an environment of contraction, clients are actively looking for solutions that solve their carbon issues and their core business issues in concert.
The decks will be cleared as well: a lot of superficial practice will be shown up, and many greenwashers will let go of 'green' as they focus on short term cashflow issues. This would give a clearer run to organisations who see sustainable profitability as central to future success, and reduce PR noise around genuinely good practice. The FT have just put out a Sustainable Business supplement, available on their website, that provides a good overview of some perspectives in this broad debate.
Read more...More announces the birth of Onzo!
More Associates' passion for using design, technology and original research to deliver sustainable innovation has created Onzo, our first spinoff.
Onzo is a consumer energy demand reduction business. Through its products, we hope that Onzo will save hundreds of thousands of tonnes of carbon in people's homes, proving that business can find solutions to climate change.
Onzo was founded in 2007 as a joint-venture between More Associates and Element 06. It was built to develop insight developed through More's years of experience working with end-users on energy and carbon communication, and derived from our energy-literacy programme.
Scottish and Southern Energy and Sigma technology have aquired a combined stake of 49% in Onzo, in a deal worth £9 million in cash and orders.
Onzo is a leader in the new wave of businesses that are tackling climate change head on. Proving that good design can bring together business and sustainability objectives, it is a high-growth business that will make a real difference to people's impact on climate change.
Onzo is More's first spinoff, and we have new ventures in development for the future.
Read more...Getting physical with smart metering
With the energy industry, NGOs, government, meter manufacturers and others involved in the 'smart metering interoperability' process, the interoperbility conversation is getting very political, very technical, and that can lead people to miss some simple but important opportunities.
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